Mental health care is to get the “biggest transformation in a generation” – with NHS England to spend an extra £1bn a year on treatments by 2021. An independent taskforce has identified wide-ranging targets for improvement over the next five years, as only 15% of…

An Arizona mother’s keen eye detected something might be amiss while studying photos she had taken of her infant son. Andrea Temarantz started seeing a glint in her son Ryder’s left eye caused by the flash of her cellphone, NY Daily News reported. “I kind…

A growing number of U.S. women are filling prescriptions for unregulated hormones to ease menopause symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats, a recent study suggests. Researchers focused on what’s known as compounded hormone therapy – prescriptions that are custom-blended by pharmacists instead of…

Guinea is to be declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO), two years after the epidemic began there. Guineans are expected to celebrate the landmark with concerts and fireworks. The disease killed more than 2,500 people in the country and a further…

Gonorrhoea could become an untreatable disease, England’s chief medical officer has warned. Dame Sally Davies has written to all GPs and pharmacies to ensure they are prescribing the correct drugs after the rise of “super-gonorrhoea” in Leeds. Her warning comes after concerns were raised that some…

A young boy with an inoperable brain tumour has become the first in the UK to have testicular tissue frozen so that he has a chance of having his own children when he grows up. Nathan Crawford from Cornwall needs chemo and radiotherapy for his…

Scientists say they have fine tuned a gene editing method to make it safer and more accurate – vital if it is to be used in humans to cure inherited diseases or inborn errors. The advance, outlined in Science Magazine, comes as world leaders in…

Pop quiz: What’s the leading cause of disability among US adults—the one almost every American will experience at some point in his or her lifetime? If you said depression, well, you probably read the headline of this story. Good job. At any given time, depression…