Bacterial Meningitis Can Change a Life Forever — Even When the Patient Survives Bacterial meningitis has long been understood for what it is: a medical emergency that can kill quickly if diagnosis and treatment do not happen fast. Fever, severe heada...
Continue readingWhat Rare Cases of HIV Control Without Ongoing Treatment May Teach Us About Future Remission There is one idea that continues to drive some of the most ambitious research in HIV medicine: could it be possible to control the virus without lifelong ant...
Continue readingExtreme Heat: Finding the Most Vulnerable Older Adults Could Change How Health Systems Respond For years, heatwaves were often treated mainly as a weather issue. Temperatures climbed, warnings went out, and people were told to drink water, avoid the...
Continue readingHPV Self-Sampling Could Unlock Cervical Cancer Screening for Women the System Misses For decades, cervical cancer screening has depended on a fairly simple model: a woman books an appointment, attends a clinic, has a sample collected by a health prof...
Continue readingWhen Your Sleep App Becomes a Source of Stress — and When It Can Actually Help For many people, sleep is no longer just something they feel. It is something they measure. Total sleep time. Sleep efficiency. Number of awakenings. Sleep stages. A readi...
Continue readingWhy Leukaemia Treatment Is Entering a More Precise — and More Promising — Era For years, a leukaemia diagnosis often meant entering a world defined by intensive chemotherapy, long hospital stays, and outcomes that could vary dramatically depending on...
Continue readingA Fracture Risk Calculator Could Change Who Gets Flagged for Parathyroid Surgery Primary hyperparathyroidism can look deceptively mild. Sometimes it is picked up on routine blood tests, with raised calcium, few obvious symptoms, and an overall sense...
Continue readingAlcohol and Cancer: Science Knows the Risk, but the Public Still Often Doesn’t When people think about alcohol-related harm, they usually think first about liver disease, addiction, dangerous driving or mental health. Cancer often comes much later in...
Continue readingSchizophrenia Research Is Starting to Treat Cognitive Symptoms as a Biological Target When most people think about schizophrenia, they think about hallucinations, delusions and disorganised thinking. Those symptoms are central to the illness and can...
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