After nearly 100 years of development, treatments that bolster the body's immune system to fight cancer are coming of age – and saving patients' lives.
Two sisters hope they have found a way to prevent others suffering as their beloved grandmother did.
On 12 April 1955, Dr Jonas Salk announced that his vaccine was safe and effective – but he refused to profit from it.
Weight-loss drugs are not the easy solution that many people believe, especially if you hope to keep the pounds off in the long-term.
Warnings for dopamine agonist drugs are to be reviewed after BBC identified an error in patient leaflets.
An Oxford surgeon who regularly treats broken ankles becomes the “unexpectedly casualty”.
Is it possible to train the body to resist seasonal allergies? That’s the hope promised by a new line of immunotherapy reviving an old treatment.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly inventing new drugs for diseases from Parkinson's disease and antibiotic-resistant superbugs to rare lung conditions.
Prof Rob Galloway hopes his charity will be help to people like his daughter, Frankie.
