BBC Africa's Sophie Ikenye visits an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, in London, where global attitudes to medicine are translated into art.

Better use of electronic prescribing in NHS hospitals would improve patient safety, a study suggests.

The damage caused by concussion can be detected months after the injury and long after patients feel like they have recovered, brain scans show.

Scientists have developed a non-invasive test that can predict whether men with zero sperm counts are capable of fathering children through IVF.

People who regularly eat nuts appear to live longer, according to the largest study of its kind.

As figures show one in five people with HIV in the UK are unaware they have it, someone who lives with it explains how he found out.

Cancer patient Steve Evans tells the BBC that he has decided to stop all aggressive cancer treatment and move to palliative care.

Urgent action is needed to stem the rise in avoidable emergency admissions among the elderly, regulators say.