Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
In the week that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that leprosy could now be en
Henrietta Lacks was only 31 years old when she died from cervical cancer in 1951. While she was in h
The World Health Organisation and UNICEF say global immunisation services reached 4 million more chi
Just months after the ‘momentous’ announcement of the first drug shown to slow the effects of Alzhei
“Sickle cell is not all that we are – Sickle Cell is solvable.” Lea Kilenga Bey from Kenya founded t
Since early times, the drum has been part of human society. But have you ever considered how drummin
African HIV research now makes up almost a third of total research being conducted into the virus. A
When the Myanmar military staged a coup d’état in February 2021, many healthcare workers became the
Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne disease which spreads to humans and can cause fever and severe joint
When China abruptly ended its tough lockdown policy in December 2022, Covid cases in the country ros
As Uganda approves some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation in the world, we hear from Dr Chloe O
As new research is released showing that lower back pain is the leading cause of disability across t
Home testing kits for screening people for signs of diseases have become more and more common in rec
One in four babies around the world is born too small. Either preterm, small for gestational age, or
Medical professionals in Khartoum tell us how they are managing to continue their work to treat peop
Addressing racial diversity amongst doctors can improve outcomes for people in their local communiti
More than a quarter of the world’s malaria cases happen in Nigeria according to the World Health Org
Researchers in Zambia and Pakistan have shown that a drug which helps to stop bleeding in childbirth
Women do 90% of the work in global healthcare but hold only a quarter of leadership roles. We hear f
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