Medicine

Fresh analysis of dietary trials raises some awkward questions about UPFs and evidence-based science

A 79-year-old US man with weight problems was given priority access to a powerful new injectable treatment in April. Who could it have been?

The US is not allowing anyone with ebola into the country, so the government has built a treatment centre for Americans in Kenya. It’s the one nation in the region that’s clear of the disease. Locals are not happy

Decisions taken by the department he led to reduce aid to Africa have made the current Ebola outbreak worse. The total effect of what he did will be catastrophic

A cataract operation left me with pseudophakia – the happy condition of having an artificial lens

Former Newsnight journalist Deborah Cohen’s new book explores how influencer culture and wellness marketing have created a boom market in dodgy health advice

An unusually early flu season was mistaken for an unusually severe one – raising questions about how risk is communicated and how unprepared the NHS remains

Trump and Kennedy want a simple answer to this very complex problem. And it must be an answer that fits their scepticism of much mainstream medicine

Egged on by Trump and RFK Jr, a deadly blend of conspiracy theory and wellness woo-woo is going mainstream

Researchers have developed a promising vaccine for pancreatic cancer, but its future is uncertain due to Robert F Kennedy Jr

The EDO celebrated the milestone with a public charity concert at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead

Polygenic editing – making changes to DNA – is now a reality. But are the medical benefits outweighed by the ethical risks and hidden dangers?

The UK’s regulator, HFEA, is having to grapple with the scientific, ethical and even philosophical challenges associated with synthetic embryo research

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a charming and bewitchingly charismatic medical practitioner whose methods were declared hokum after long keeping the elite mesmerised