As the Philippines struggles to recover from one of the largest weather events on record, Typhoon Haiyan, medical personnel work hard to treat storm injuries and everyday medical issues.

As the annual growing and showing of all manner of mustaches gets underway, we take a look at the impact that Movember has had on the world of medical research and the practical services it helps to provide.

New research points way to possible new treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is facing criticism due to technical glitches in the rollout of online insurance exchanges.

A new report shows that Britain may be able to save money by improving the way that the NHS deals with tourists and migrants who use its health care services.

The UK drug company GSK is still under investigation of illegally bribing hospitals and doctors in China in order to increase sales.

Neurologists push brain development research to another level after creating and successfully growing a human brain in a laboratory.

Doctors and nurses have always known the importance of treating a stroke as soon as possible, but a new study from the medical journal, Stroke, has shown just how important it is to diagnose and offer care to stroke victims as soon as possible. 

Published in August 2013, the study demonstrated that in order to greatly minimize…

Changes to the current NHS policy regarding medical workers will mean that as of April 2014, HIV positive doctors, nurses, dentists in the UK will be able to perform surgical procedures as they could before the 1990s when the restriction was imposed. Chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies made the announcements last week and declared that the existing legislation was outdated and introduced…

A recent article published in JAMA Internal Medicine, a Journal of the American Medical Association Network publication, has highlighted how modern doctors deal with patients who come to them concerned about back pain. According to the studies, an increasing number of cases of back pain have been…