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Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.

Wellcome Collection has reopened its doors. To mark this, artists have developed works interrogating the impact of the UK government’s COVID-19 campaign; also featured are podcasts, a BBC Radio 4 series and a book launch.

Writer development programme for unpublished and unagented non-fiction writers returns for a second year.

Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

Melanie Keen, the Director and Chief Curator of Iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts), has been appointed Director of Wellcome Collection. She will take up the role in Autumn 2019.

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

Uncover the powerful narratives of chronic illness and identity in the major exhibition ‘Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving Bodies’ at Wellcome Collection.

Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.

When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.

Wellcome Collection was opened today by Nobel Prize winner Professor James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA ...

In July 2025 Wellcome Collection presents ‘Finger Talk’, a powerful new British Sign Language (BSL) audiovisual installation by artist and curator Cathy Mager, in collaboration with deaf artists and contributors.

Wellcome has announced that Melanie Keen, who has been Director of Wellcome Collection since 2019, will step down in the Spring of 2026.

Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.

Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.

Genetic counsellor Sasha Henriques harnessed her energy and resolve to tackle the racial biases she saw in her profession – with positive and promising results.

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.