eliminated measles, a viral disease that can cause severe health problems, including pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and even death.

The role of pathogens in childhood diarrhoea has been significantly underestimated, with bacteria, viruses and fungi responsible for nearly twice as many cases than previously thought, ac...

Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged £2.3bn to fund medical research over the next decade.

Award recognises Professor Piot's outstanding commitment to public health; particularly his work on Ebola and HIV/AIDS.

In utero Zika virus infection has been proven to cause microcephaly in newborn babies according to preliminary findings of the first case-control study examining the association between the two.

Progress has been patchy and researchers warn against poor quality care with rising rates of over-medicalisation, too few trained staff or basic resources in many regions.

A mosquito net that stops female mosquitoes from producing fertile eggs has the potential to improve malaria control efforts in areas of high insecticide resistance, according to a new st...

School sex education is often negative, heterosexist, out of touch and taught by poorly trained, embarrassed teachers, according to a new review of the views and experiences of young peop...

Doctors, patients and the public now have more help to make informed decisions about statin therapy, thanks to a major review of the available evidence on the safety and efficacy of the d...

Largest ever global survey of vaccine confidence maps attitudes across 67 countries.

PIGSustain project to help increase the resilience of UK food systems.

The concept of premature mortality needs to be either abandoned or redefined if it is not to discriminate against older people, according to a commentary piece published in the