Coordinated international response must to eradicate polio, says WHO

Since May 2014, there has been new spread of poliovirus in central Asia and a poliovirus originating in Central Africa was reported from the Americas

Thank you for not driving: Climate change requires anti-smoking tactics

What if we treated climate change as a health problem rather than an environmental one? There are lessons to be learned from the successful …

Digital Amnesia: Excessive use of mobile phone could lead to memory loss

Smartphone addiction could impair our brain’s ability to retain new information and form new memories

India’s mysterious diseases: ‘We need a public health system’

Human health management is dismally low in India, says T Jacob John, virologist and former professor at Christian Medical College, Vellore

Autonomous Africa CDC a game-changer on disease outbreak response: Experts

Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention will now be in a position to assess disease outbreaks on the continent and declare it an …

Predicting epidemics isn’t easy. We’ve created a global dataset to help

A better understanding of how different infectious diseases spread across countries can help establish early warning mechanisms and response protocols

COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency — here’s what that means

COVID will still have pandemic status, and countries will continue to have their own authority as to whether to treat COVID as an emergency …