Medical advances in gene therapy provide major breakthroughs for conditions like sickle cell disease, blindness, and spinal muscular atrophy.
Three teenagers from an East London school have won a TeenTech prize for developing a new condom that glows when it detects a sexually transmitted infection.
Chinese authorities have placed 151 people in quarantine and sealed off an entire city after a man died from bubonic plague.
Around 75 scientists working for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at a lab in Atlanta, Georgia, may have accidentally been exposed to live anthrax.
The first case of MERS coronavirus has been reported in the US state of Indiana, after a man fell ill following a trip to Saudi Arabia.