The “Mississippi baby” – a child who generated a great deal of excitement last year after being seemingly cured of HIV – now has detectable levels of HIV in the blood, according to doctors and health officials.
The majority of people in England are happy with the services provided by their local GP surgeries, but results are starting to slip, according to the latest GP Patient Survey by NHS England.
The world faces a growing threat of drug-resistant bacterial and viral infections that could cast medicine “back into the dark ages”, Prime minister David Cameron has warned.
A pioneering new drug treatment appears to have cured a British man with terminal skin cancer.
Those suffering from a cardiac arrest after severe traumatic injury are to be placed into “suspended animation” to allow surgeons more time to save their lives, in a trial in the US.