Health

Researchers found that antidepressant prescribing in England rose by 13.4 per cent relative to other types of drug in the immediate aftermath of the 'leave' EU referendum victory in 2016

Care homes that treated residents with a new cost-effective care plan devised by experts saved the NHS up to £4,000 after nine months.

MRI scans of the brain using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which assess the condition of the brain's white matter, were found to be between 89 and 95 per cent accurate

Concerns that the internet is fuelling hypochondria have been raised after research revealed searches for serious health conditions have increased by thousands of percentage points over the last three years. UK search volumes for terms such as ‘how to know chest pains are serious’ have risen by 8,781 per cent from 2015 to 2018, analysis of Google data has found. And searches for keywords such as ‘sciatica’, ‘acne’ and ‘IBS’ plus ‘treatment’ are now searched over 100,000 times on average...

Isaac Hoey was just six weeks old when he "stopped breathing and started to turn blue".

The dual action virus targets cancer cells and healthy cells tricked into protecting the cancer from the immune system

The ground-breaking research saw allergists build up people's tolerance to peanuts by feeding them a small amount every day for over a year

Their grey matter needs more time to 'hang up' on information, suggests the study, explaining the communication difficulties and repetitive behaviour

Soldiers who tried meditation as part of a small scale study found it as effective as a mainstream therapy for the devastating mental condition