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 ...

I remember the tampon again. I go to the toilet. Another round of squatting, squeezing, pressing, trying to recall giving birth. Nothing. Colin offers his help. He feels that his hands must be clean ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Christians believed in the power of relics to offer spiritual and physical aid. Because Jesus was believed to have bodily ascended into heaven, he left few relics on Earth that could be venerated. The ...

"Dependant alarm refers to the pendant alarm given to disabled people by their local councils which is supposed to offer comfort - however it is a cold object, which is intended to be used for the ...

The British Migraine Association ran a series of migraine art competitions in the 1980s with the intention to share people’s varied experiences of migraine. In the seven years that the competition ran ...