James Holmes described himself as “a quiet and easy-going medical student” on the application form he filled out last May before renting a third-floor apartment in a brick-walled building a stone's throw from the University of Colorado's sprawling hospital campus.

An autistic man survived in the desert for three weeks on a diet of frogs and roots, US authorities have said.

Health chiefs in Cambodia are searching for the cause of a mystery disease that has killed more than 60 children over the past three months.

The veteran correspondent said "I don’t want my 6 year-old son to have his only memory of me as a gibbering wreck"

A 26-year-old man has died after hitting a concrete post while "landsurfing" - a new form of skateboarding.

Care home patients suffering from dementia should be allowed to participate in consensual sex, experts said.

A father has found a therapy that can transform autistic children

Event will bring disability into the open and celebrate its links with creativity

Omega-3 supplements do not appear to prevent mental decline in old age, a study review has shown.

Signs of autism have been found in fish swimming in water contaminated with psychoactive medications.

You might be fed up with your little monkeys always wanting to play with your iPad, but for a group of orang-utan experts, that's exactly what they want. Gillian Orr reports

Early treatment alleviates symptoms but only 37 per cent of doctors are trained to identify it

Frail elderly and disabled people are being charged more for council help to get washed, dressed and fed at home, according to a survey.

More than a third of adults with autism have been bullied or discriminated against at work, the largest ever survey on the condition has found.