Medicine Insights

In the Netherlands and Belgium, a doctor can legally end a patient’s life, at the patient’s request, if that patient […]

Anaesthetic awareness — regaining consciousness during general anaesthesia while unable to move or communicate — is one of the most

There are around 7,000 people on the transplant waiting list in the UK at any given time. Last year, approximately

In 2019, a case report in the journal Cell described a young woman who had grown up without a cerebellum.

Concussion is one of the most commonly misunderstood injuries in medicine. It is frequently described as a “mild brain injury”

Almost everyone has experienced it: the sudden, disorienting sensation that this moment — this conversation, this room, this unremarkable Tuesday

In 2016, a team at DeepMind developed an algorithm called Streams that could detect acute kidney injury in hospital patients

Alzheimer’s disease affects around 55 million people worldwide. It has been studied intensively for decades. And yet, until 2021, not

In November 2018, a scientist named He Jiankui announced that he had used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the genomes of human

In the 1960s, a surgeon named Joseph Bogen began performing a radical procedure on patients with severe epilepsy. He cut