In January 2020, Thailand's authorities were amongst the first to have to grapple with a worrying new disease. The frontlines included the country's shopping malls.

A German cryonics start-up is offering a chance at a second life for the cost of a sports car. Is cryogenics within reach, or still an empty promise?

Bird flu is decimating wildlife around the world and is now spreading in cows. In the handful of human cases seen so far it has been extremely deadly.

Disease-causing microorganisms churn in the floodwaters after a hurricane and grow in people's homes long after the first danger has passed.

A couple is raising awareness of a rare condition after losing an unborn child during pregnancy.

Microglia are the brain's resident immune cells. Their job is to patrol the brain's blood vessels looking for invading pathogens to gobble up. But what happens when they go rogue?

The new study uses genome sequencing to detect more diseases earlier, when they can still be treated.

Our sheets and pillows are where we spend a third of our daily lives, and all that contact creates the perfect environment for all sorts of unwanted guests.