malaria

What would the healthcare sector of the future look like?

Healthcare around the world is going through unique and dynamic changes.

A nation off-guard: Why is dengue still a non-issue?

Can we respond to a public health crisis with the same urgency as the crisis over our electoral future?

Chicken odour 'prevents malaria' research in Ethiopia finds

The smell from a live chicken can help protect against malaria, researchers find.

Japanese, Chinese, Irish scientists win 2015 Nobel medicine prize for parasite therapies

Irish-born William Campbell, Satoshi Omura of Japan and China's Youyou Tu win the Nobel Medicine Prize for their discoveries of treatments against parasites, the jury says.

Global life expectancy rises, but people live sicker for longer

People around the world are living longer, but many are also living sicker lives for longer, according to a study.