Here are some stories you might have missed on Wearside this week. A man fitted with a pioneering, computer-controlled brain ...

A Swindon man with Parkinson's disease will skydive from 15,000 feet to raise awareness and funds for charity.

Mick Broad has taken part in research by Manchester's Royal Northern School of Music (RNCM) into the way music can support people living with the condition. The project sees people living with ...

In his testimony this week, Kennedy claimed that infectious diseases receive far more federal funding than chronic diseases. Government records suggest the opposite.