I am at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe with a woman in labour. She is waiting for an operation. Another woman is already on the operating table. Doctors are ready. But there is no electricity. No power ...

New research from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry and Masonic Cancer Center is providing important new insights into the structure of a human virus that causes blood cancer. In their ...

Cement is responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and demand is growing as the population booms.

Students have been protesting a lack of financial aid from the government, leading to clashes with police. On Friday, the situation there deteriorated again. Other institutions also saw protests.

A large-scale population metagenomic study has shed new light on the spatial heterogeneity of viral communities across the ...

Airports across Asia have put urgent steps in place to stop the spread of a highly lethal virus. Temperature screening has been set up by authorities in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia after two ...

Virus primarily spreads from animals to humans, has a high fatality rate and there is no vaccine Airports across Asia have been put on high alert after India confirmed two cases of the deadly Nipah ...

About 1 in 10 people carry genetic variants that make them particularly vulnerable to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a ubiquitous pathogen that is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple ...

An outbreak of the Nipah virus in the Indian state of West Bengal is raising concern in parts of Asia, leading some airports to implement precautionary health screenings. So far, five confirmed ...

The US has completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, the US Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday, finalizing a longstanding goal of President Donald Trump.

When the common cold rips through a household, it can leave a wildly uneven path of symptoms. The same cold-causing rhinovirus that produces barely a sniffle in one person can cause a week of ...