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Meet the Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds

In early February, Vishvaa Rajakumar, a 20-year-old Indian college student, emerged as the winner of the Memory League World Championship, an engaging online competition...

Inside the Royal Free – what it tells us about the NHS

Nick Triggle, Hugh Pym, Chloe Hayward, Vicki Loader & Jim Reed BBC News BBC News The BBC has been reporting live from the Royal Free Hospital in...

New York Live Bird Markets Ordered to Close After Bird Flu Is Found

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Friday that all live bird markets in New York City and several nearby counties must temporarily close to curb...

Ernest Drucker, Public-Health Advocate for the Scorned, Dies at 84

Ernest Drucker, a pioneering public-health researcher who approached drug addiction with compassion, invigorated needle-exchange programs to stem the AIDS epidemic and diagnosed the destructive...

Lucy Letby did not murder babies, claim medical experts

Dominic Casciani Reporting from Central London BBC A team of medical experts have outlined what they say is “significant new evidence” in Lucy Letby’s case Child killer Lucy Letby...

C.D.C. Site Restores Some Purged Files After ‘Gender Ideology’ Ban Outcry

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently removed thousands of pages from its website that included terms like “transgender,” “L.G.B.T.,” and “pregnant person”...

These Settings Aren’t Real. But for Dementia Patients, What Is?

The nursery at RiverSpring Residences in the Bronx is a sunny, inviting space outfitted with a bassinet, a crib with a musical mobile, a...

Campaigner launches bid to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s

Hugh Pym and Nick Triggle BBC News BBC News Health Secretary Wes Streeting is being threatened with legal action if he does not ban the private sale...

Loretta Ford, ‘Mother’ of the Nurse Practitioner Field, Dies at 104

Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing into an area...