International help is being pledged for India as it battles a ferocious second wave of coronavirus, described by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a storm that...
The United Kingdom has recorded 1,610 Covid deaths in a single day — the highest number since the pandemic struck last year. Experts say it’s likely...
A second person has died from coronavirus in the UK. He was an elderly man with underlying health conditions. The number of people now infected with...
By the end of 2018, the UK will have legalised certain types of cannabis-derived medicines. This is great news for many patients, but will it lead...
*** Warning: distressing images Horrific scenes following an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City continued the day after the blast, with terrible suffering and grief...
Surgeons in London have used human embryonic stem cells in a pioneering attempt to cure blindness. Cells derived from a donated early embryo were implanted into...
Scientists have been using a new form of gene therapy to treat a rare inherited eye condition which eventually causes severe tunnel vision. Scientists have been...
The United Nations has called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in Gaza, saying the situation there has reached “catastrophic levels”. The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres...
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