Myalgic encephalomyelitis, known as ME, as well as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a doubly invisible illness. Not only are the symptoms hard to see, but the disease also attracts little ...

Building upon her photo story ‘No you’re not – a portrait of autistic women’, women from minoritised communities talk to photographer Rosie Barnes about their experiences of being autistic in a world ...

Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions. show credit information for image 'The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained, a display at Wellcome ...

All the while, I was in Scotland, worrying. The pandemic meant the Canadian borders were closed to incoming flights from the UK. Tearful calls to the Canadian Consulate were made – in theory, when the ...

Early modern hospitals in Europe predominantly served people from poorer communities, as wealthy people could afford to be nursed at home. Manuscript and woodcut illustrations from the 16th century ...

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment sparked radical new conceptions of science, biology and medicine in Europe, bringing different frameworks to how hospitals ...

In the mid-19th century, behavioural neurologists made important discoveries just by looking at the surface of the brain. Paul Broca, the best known of them, treated two stroke patients who had lost ...

The translation of the caption on this poster from the Swiss AIDS Foundation is “Excluded because of AIDS? Excluded!”. By the 1990s it was becoming clear that everyone was vulnerable to the HIV virus, ...

Dairy consumption in India can be traced as far back as the Indus Valley Civilisation (3300–1300 BCE), where it was an essential part of the diet. Elsewhere in the world, humans first started ...

W hen terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, many people were cut off from medical help. As a result, a local nurse in Buffalo issued a set of instructions on social ...

In every culture and era, an ideal of beauty arises as a universal value, worthy of going to great lengths to attain and sustain. What are the driving forces that have led us to believe in a myth of ...

Avoiding institutionalised healthcare. I’ve always been the “I don’t take pills” type of person, as if it is a character trait bestowed on me by some hippy healthcare god; I’ve always preferred to ...