Dubai's 42nd Arab Health exhibition focuses on automation and innovation technology

Scientists have created the first human-animal hybrids in a major breakthrough which could address a critical shortage of donor organs. A team of

Swiss doctors have reported that cartilage cells harvested from patients’ own noses have been used to successfully produce cartilage transplants for the treatment of the knees of 10 adults with damage

Twenty-six women receiving a specialised fertilisation treatment in Utrecht may have been fertilised using sperm from the wrong donor.

This week’s Business Planet comes from the German city of Bonn.

The man who became a global figure of greed after hiking the price of a life-saving drug by 5000 percent in the US, may have just met his match.

The surprising results have come from a US study in monkeys involving an antibody used to treat Crohn's disease.

Implant provides a way out for locked in syndrome sufferers

A mobile game that challenges a gamer’s spatial navigation has generated the largest-ever dementia study.

Is it a scientific way of cheating death?

It’s being hailed as a major medical breakthrough: partially-paralysed monkeys have learned to walk again thanks to a brain implant that uses wireless signals to bypass broken nerves in the spinal cor

Scientists in the US are seeking to enroll hundreds of families with autistic sons but unaffected daughters in a study looking for genetic clues and protective…

People with schizophrenia are volunteering for a European research project to help the control and perhaps even silence the tormenting voices in their heads by confronting a computer avatar of…

Can this avatar fight schizophrenia?

A Milan hospital is testing new optical technology to monitor the flow of oxygen in the brain of premature babies.

First days in life can be hard Premature babies are under close monitoring but doctors lack tools to measure oxygenation and blood flow in the brain An innovative optical instrument is being tested to

Animal testing raises sometimes violently passionate debate and opposition, but for medical research surely it is sadly unavoidable? Perhaps not for much longer if European scientists' research bears