Health

An injection to prevent HIV is something to celebrate

Negative reaction to the news recalls the homophobia that stopped early research into Aids treatments

My brain injury left me unable to move

Many former players watching the rise of the women’s game will be doing so through the haze of neurodegenerative diseases caused by the repeated head impacts they sustained from playing rugby. Their stories are a warning.

Unlocking the mystery of motor neurone disease in athletes

As former England rugby union captain Lewis Moody becomes the latest athlete to be diagnosed with the illness, questions remain over the risk posed by high-intensity sports

NHS cuts will ‘severely impact’ those who struggle to breathe

Decision to cancel surgery in England to correct breathing difficulties has been criticised by doctors

Medical funding cuts could kill future breakthroughs

Slashed budgets on both sides of the Atlantic will hinder the kind of life-saving science that may soon cure Huntington’s

Today James Herriot’s surgery would be part of a mega chain

The return of the TV series fuels nostalgia for a bucolic professional idyll before private equity took hold

Scientific breakthrough could end Huntington’s

A professor battling to slow the disease that killed writer Charlotte Raven shared his good news with her daughter

Blood rejuvenation, gut pills and beaded leggings

Billions of dollars are being poured into the longevity industry, with investors rapidly warming to cryonics

Women wait longer for ovarian cancer care in UK

British women are less likely to receive timely treatment for the disease than counterparts in other countries

After Tylenol, will epidurals and caesareans be next?

Blaming expectant mothers who take Tylenol for autism in their children shows exactly how little Donald Trump cares for science – or women

Kennedy’s staff warn that he is dismantling US public health

Health secretary is undermining decades of effective vaccine and prevention systems

How long before Britain becomes an opioid nation?

Policymakers are alert to the growing menace of opioids, if not to the most effective solutions

Hostile, degrading, offensive: women demand harsher penalties for ‘God complex’ surgeons

Anger as consultant who touched female colleague under the operating table returns to work after being suspended for just a year

Women’s football is following the flow to transform the game

Top-flight teams and experts are ‘weaponising’ periods for better play and to tackle stigma

Have we reached peak veganism? The future feels flexitarian

High prices and ultra-processed food fears are turning Britons off plant-based ‘meat’. But perhaps we have come to prefer a more flexible diet

Snoop Dogg’s firm backs UK cannabis clinic with £4.5m

US rapper leads the way as private investors put their money into Mamedica

Covid jab may have caused royal cancers, says Reform speaker

Cardiologist at conference says studies show MRNA vaccines could interfere with genes

The twins helping scientists break new ground

Genetically identical siblings can shed light on understanding mitochondria and aid research into treatment