Disease News

The U.S. CDC has analyzed travel-associated illness trends and clusters for the period 2000–2010. The report has highlighted the most common diseases and the regions of the world where infections occur most often.

Mosquitoes which transmit diseases like West Nile fever and Chikungunya fever are less likely to infect people and are also more susceptible to insecticides if they are reared in cooler climates.

London - The U.K. government has announced a new research funding scheme that aims to improve the diagnosis of a number of serious diseases.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting at a retreat in Southern California this coming weekend, and the pressing matter before them is the one they will not tackle: population management.

A study conducted by a team of Japanese scientists suggests that women live longer than men partly because their immune systems age more slowly.

Patients seeking cancer treatment are being cautioned of an unusual side-effect associated with the cancer drug known as Avastin.

A former professional soccer player will be running in the London Marathon on Sunday. He will be the first person with motor neurone disease (MND) to run the marathon.

An international team of scientists in Seattle, Wash., U.S., and Cordoba and San Martin, Argentina, have uncovered a surprising new role for one type of immune cell in controlling the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.

A new global plan from the World Health Organization aims eliminate polio by 2018, provided that world governments can contribute $5.5 billion.

An international team of scientists has discovered an important natural antibiotic called dermcidin, produced by our skin when we sweat.