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Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.

The efficacy of antibiotics and the demands of work mean we rarely convalesce after an illness. But in the past it was an important part of the return to health.

'Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan', brings together more than 300 works for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art in the UK.

Parafictional artists create projects where the imaginary interacts with real life. But the growth of so-called ‘fake news’ is providing a new challenge.

Girija Kaimal, Professor in Creative Art Therapies at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA, talks about the therapeutic potential of creativity and art-making in helping people cope with adversity.

Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

One of Britain's finest writers explores the relationship between our health and the buildings that surround us.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.

The first major exhibition exploring the relationship between graphic design and health will open at Wellcome Collection in September 2017.

Two refugees living a hand-to-mouth existence in the UK explain how trauma has affected their health, and how a little kindness is bringing them hope.

'Living with Buildings' examines how the structures that surround us shape our mental and physical health, in both positive and negative ways.

Over 800,000 pages of archival material from psychiatric hospitals in the UK will be digitised and made freely available online.

Being Human, the new permanent gallery at Wellcome Collection will explore what it means to be human in the 21st century.

Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Our thought-provoking exhibitions tackle the subject of health from different perspectives.

Novelist Lydia Ruffles explores how migraine has made her mind stretch, shrink, widen and change, and how it’s influenced her art.

Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.