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M yalgic encephalomyelitis, known as ME, as well as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a doubly invisible illness. Not only are the symptoms hard to see, but the disease also attracts little ...

Building upon her photo story ‘ No you’re not – a portrait of autistic women ’, women from minoritised communities talk to photographer Rosie Barnes about their experiences of being autistic in a ...

My story of her death is more nuanced, less abrupt than those lines. It is written within the heartbeats of grief, illuminated with the colours and hues of shared laughter and loss. Death is not an ...

Early modern hospitals in Europe predominantly served people from poorer communities, as wealthy people could afford to be nursed at home. Manuscript and woodcut illustrations from the 16th century ...

F or a neuroscientist, there are few things as awe-inspiring as holding a human brain. This lump of flesh, roughly the size of two clenched fists and weighing about 1.5 kg, not only stored a lifetime ...

LGBTQ+ communities were the hardest hit by the epidemic, but they were also among the first to raise awareness and actively campaign for safer health and sexual practices. Among the early campaigners ...

Before a vaccine was available, diphtheria was a much-feared disease of childhood, killing 20 per cent of the under-fives that contracted it. French researchers who developed an antitoxin from horses’ ...

W hen terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, many people were cut off from medical help. As a result, a local nurse in Buffalo issued a set of instructions on social ...

Despite attempting to address the problem, the NHS admits that there are “issues of racism” within the organisation. Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – in the NHS, ...

Mary W finds that half of every sexual health appointment is taken up challenging the doctor’s assumptions about her life and sexuality. Although in the UK healthcare should be a universal right, it ...

In the 1900s, alcohol-addicted East Enders were sent to one of England’s first rehab centres, on Osea Island in the Blackwater estuary, where manual work and abstinence was hoped to effect a cure.