Guinea has confirmed that 59 people have died in an outbreak of Ebola, with authorities concerned that the disease may have spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone.
A nine-month-old baby from California that was born with the HIV virus, may have been cured of the disease as a result of doctors administering anti-retroviral drugs during the first hours of its life.
Changes in the disease burden in China between 1990 and 2010 are extremely illuminating in considering how rising income, urbanization, and living to an older age impact health.
After two years of war, Syrian civilians now live with limited or no access to electricity, medicine or water. Refugees often live in unsanitary camps that are breeding grounds for diseases. As summer hits the region, these struggles will only intensify.
Malaria continues to be one of the world’s deadliest diseases, annually infecting more than 200 million people and killing more than 660,000, most of them African children. Here are five recent developments that have the potential to bring the disease closer to eradication.