Malaria control again

How yellow fever became a ruse for the US to occupy Cuba

But the invention of the stethoscope revolutionised medical diagnosis

Treatment has reached many but tuberculosis still kills millions

Port cities set up by Dutch colonists had ingenuous drainage systems

Is the West a victim of its own past?

The polio virus is possibly the most innocuous virus that affects humans. The improvement of sanitation standards across the world has meant fewer people are afflicted by polio as infants, upsetting the historical balance between virus and host. But, sinc