Mark Honigsbaum is a medical historian and journalist specialising in the history and science of infectious disease, and a ...

It is deeply troubling that the USA’s new health secretary believes in conspiracy theories and is hostile towards modern ...

Index interviews “the bookseller of Jerusalem” about the recent raids on his bookshop and the ongoing crackdown on literary ...

An Index investigation into the culture of secrecy shrouding NHS maternity services and women’s healthcare in England ...

Who’s made the most effort to throw legal threats at the little guys? A tongue-in-cheek round-up of the European SLAPP ...

The day after Badiucao published his statement, Hong Kong’s new chief of police warned that, despite Hong Kong’s return to ...

Index on Censorship, Big Brother Watch and Open Rights Group welcome ruling over UK Government attempts to gain backdoor ...

At its heart, it’s about control – of the message, the momentum and the mood. “Saving face” isn’t just cultural etiquette in China, it’s political strategy. Curiously, this is not only a top-down game ...

Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. Before Edward Jenner’s development of the smallpox vaccination in 1796, infectious diseases and viruses killed millions. The introduction of anaesthetic gases ...