Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Nature - Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.

Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.

The co-lead of the world’s largest ever genetic study into ME calls for a radical change in how society deals with the disease.