global health

Life in towns and cities can grind you down, but putting health and wellbeing at the centre of new housing and infrastructure developments could make...

Some of the final cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone were transmitted via unconventional routes, such as semen and breastmilk, according to the largest...

A technique for reducing the number of infectious malaria parasites in whole blood could significantly reduce the number of cases of transmission of...

The babies of obese women who develop gestational diabetes are five times as likely to be excessively large by six months of pregnancy, according to...

Some people with high levels of ‘good’ high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are at increased risk of coronary heart disease, contrary to...

Almost all of our genes may be influenced by the food we eat, according to new research published in the journal Nature Microbiology . The study...

Worried you might be at risk from diabetes? Check your phone: it might help stop 
you getting the disease. And if you already have diabetes? Your...

A major research collaboration is looking at how small towns in the hills of India and Nepal are coping with increasing demand for water: who wins...