New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected

While many children who are HIV-exposed and also HIV-uninfected are growing and developing well, some face greater risks

Coronavirus: Passengers from China to be screened at Indian airports, advisory issued

Second death in China; second case in Thailand reported

Antibiotic resistance: AMR a health threat in Uganda

Worries: Self-medication, antibiotic sales without prescription

Antibiotic resistance: How Zambia is trying to reign in AMR

Antibiotic abuse dog the country like many of its counterparts in Africa

Are you in danger of catching the coronavirus? 5 questions answered

What you should know about the novel Coronavirus

Coronavirus spreads to France, Australia, Malaysia; India tightens watch at 7 airports

China plans to stop interprovincial road transport to Beijing from January 26

How contagious is the Wuhan coronavirus and can you spread it before symptoms start?

How bad is it? Why does it spread so fast? A biosecurity expert answers common queries on coronavirus

Antibiotic resistance: Spread across the world

Asia and Africa will account for 88.8 per cent of deaths from antimicrobial resistance

Antibiotic resistance: A new dose

How the world is gearing up to fight antibiotic resistance

Coronavirus hits India: One confirmed case in Kerala, says Centre

Patient stable, under observation in isolation

इस इलाके में 45 प्रतिशत लोगों को है किडनी रोग, कारण तलाशेंगे वैज्ञानिक

आंध्रप्रदेश के इस इलाके में राष्ट्रीय औसत से दोगुने अधिक किडनी रोगी हैं, लेकिन अब तक कारण का पता नहीं लगाया जा सका है

Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens like coronavirus jump species

Within markets like the one in Wuhan, there are abundant opportunities for the type of interactions that promote pathogen transmission among species

False information fuels fear during disease outbreaks: There is an antidote

Editors and journalists no longer control the flow of news and opinion. Anyone can generate and distribute text, images, sound clips and video on …

Arsenic: Lurking in the shadows across Ganga, Brahmaputra basins

As the geography of arsenic contamination spreads, there is an urgent need for governments to reorient mitigation measures. That’s because …

Why do bats keep cropping up during virus outbreaks

The more bats are under stress, the greater is the risk from viruses

Coronavirus outbreak: A new mapping tool that lets you scroll through timeline

To provide a clearer picture of an evolving story, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has developed a new outbreak-…

Lassa fever: Why there’s a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

The Nigerian Academy of Science has called for the current outbreak of Lassa fever in Africa’s most populous nation to be declared a …

Outbreaks like coronavirus start in and spread from the edges of cities

The new coronavirus crossed the animal-human divide at a market in Wuhan, one of the largest Chinese cities and a major transportation node

Union budget 2020-21 - explained in 15 charts

Nirmala Sitharaman's budget has little to offer rural India. Allocation to several schemes were slashed below 2019-20 revised estimates&…

Simply Put: Guidelines to counter epidemic

Revealed: Protein ‘spike’ that lets novel coronavirus pierce, invade human cells

Knowing the structure of the virus’s spike protein gives us crucial information about exactly how the virus infects host cells

कोरोनावायरस: दुनिया भर में घोषित हुई हेल्थ इमरजेंसी

20 से अधिक देशों में कोरोनावायरस के फैलने के बाद विश्व स्वास्थ्य स्वास्थ्य संगठन ने ग्लोबल हेल्थ इमरजेंसी घोषित कर दी

चीन में फैले कोरोनावायरस की वजह से दुनिया भर में लग सकती है इमरजेंसी?

कोरोना वायरस की वजह से चीन में इमरजेंसी जैसे हालात हैँ, हालांकि विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) ने कहा है कि दुनिया भर में हेल्थ ...

Contours of coronavirus

Given near-certain shocks awaiting our world, it's time to rethink globalisation

COVID-19: Is South Korea new epicentre outside China

World Health Organization hints at possible pandemic