A young doctor was told she has leukaemia while on shift in A&E just one hour after having a blood test for suspected glandular fever. Days beforehand, she had been running up to 20km in preparation ...

Medical textbooks may need a rewrite, after a common virus has been found to be the cause of a second autoimmune disease. The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), once thought to just cause a childhood illness ...