Public health

Almost one in four of the world’s cases of tuberculosis (TB) are in India and the disease is constantly adapting itself to outwit our medicines...

A new genetic study of over 200,000 women reveals the underlying mechanisms of polycystic ovary syndrome, as well as potential interventions.

Hidden tumours that cause potentially fatal high blood pressure but lurk undetected in the body until pregnancy have been discovered by a Cambridge...

Patients with the most dangerous type of high blood pressure will be able to receive far more effective treatment after Cambridge-led research...

Each extra hour per day spent watching TV, using the internet or playing computer games during Year 10 is associated with poorer grades at GCSE at...

We need to think about how our teenagers spend their spare time, writes Dr Kirsten Corder from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the...

The number of people with dementia – both new cases and total numbers with the disease – appears to be stabilising in some Western European countries...

Shortness of breath can be terrifying for both patients and the family and friends who support them. Cambridge clinicians and researchers have...