We have all experienced the familiar symptoms of fever—chills, aches, and warmth—but few truly understand its purpose. Fever is not a disease, but a signal: the body's immune system is ...

A woman with cancer who has been held on remand for almost a year while she awaits trial for stalking, alongside the UK's most dangerous female prisoners, is begging to be allowed to undergo ...

A postpartum woman in her 40s, with a history of peripartum cardiomyopathy, developed neutropenic sepsis after a caesarean section and hysterectomy for placenta previa. She presented with high fever, ...

Good Tuesday morning! Today’s Daily may be my newsiest ever: We start with an essay on Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to weaponize legitimate anger at the failures of current psychiatric ...

Most in the UK will remember March 2020 as the month the Covid-19 coronavirus began ripping through the population. It was the start in earnest of a pandemic that the Conservative government ...

We report a survey of audience members' responses (147 questionnaires collected at seven performances) and 10 in-depth interviews (five former patients and two family members, three medical ...

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a common intestinal colonizer during the neonatal period, but also may cause late-onset sepsis or meningitis in up to 0.5% of otherwise healthy colonized infants after ...

Background The use of quinolone prophylaxis in high-risk neutropenic patients is considered standard of care but the development of resistance is a concern. Previous studies have focused mainly on ...

But we are more than capable of looking after ourselves You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. A darkening mood is settling in across Canada as ...

The parents of a boy with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) say they are "devastated" he is being taught in isolation away from other pupils after his school said it could no ...