Infectious diseases

A new study is looking at a century of mass migrations worldwide to understand the public health consequences when people are forced to flee from war...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the world’s oldest continuously surviving cancer, a transmissible genital cancer that affects dogs.

An investigation into how the transport suppliers employed by multinational companies contributes to the spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa urges...

Scientists find mutant protein blocks HIV infection and transmission.

For much of the 20th century, health professionals were locked in debate about one possible cause of paralytic polio. Some argued that the viral...

A new technology under development by an academic–industry partnership protects oral vaccines from destruction by the digestive system.

A disease lethal to horses, until now confined to hot countries, could arrive in the UK. New research creates a picture of its possible spread and...

CEO of GAVI Alliance to give Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research inaugural lecture