A pioneering genetic test is improving early diagnosis and treatment for people with hereditary cancer caused by a genetic condition.

A world-leading expert on health inequalities at Newcastle University will be presenting further evidence to the independent public inquiry into the Covid pandemic today.

A North East-based filmmaker is bringing South Asian women's stories to the region's most celebrated cinema for a special one-night screening ahead of International Women's Day.

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Martin Farr discusses what the fates of former prime ministers can teach Keir Starmer.

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Adam Behr discusses how the National Gallery cutting staff numbers indicates wider problems in the arts industry.

On 13 November 1967, Newcastle University gave Dr Martin Luther King an honorary degree; the only UK university to do so during his lifetime. The day the inspirational campaigner was made an Honorary ...

Science Minister, Lord Patrick Vallance, has visited the University to see how its expertise in artificial intelligence is delivering jobs, skills and economic growth across the North East and beyond.

The new series of NCLA lectures begins on 17 February when NCLA and the Poetry Book Society (PBS) launch the PBS Spring Selections with leading poets Karen McCarthy Woolf and Jennifer Wong.

New research has revealed the biggest threats driving species towards extinction in northern San José, Costa Rica.

We now know that type 2 diabetes is caused by excess fat inside liver and pancreas. It all started with sudden coming together of research results from Newcastle and elsewhere. The Twin Cycle ...

Newcastle welcomed a delegation from the “Iraq Organisation for the Care of the Talented” (IOCT) as part of a visit aimed at ...

Professor Bobby McFarland has been named in the 2026 TIME100 Health List of the World’s Most Influential Leaders in Health.