How vaccines change the way we think about disease By Elena Conis, Emory University The news on the current measles outbreak contains plenty of reminders that measles causes brain damage, pn... Read more

When can you start having sex after a heart attack? By Jalees Rehman, University of Illinois at Chicago Each year in the United States about 720,000 people have heart attacks and about 124,0... Read more

Fighting malaria is going to take more than just nets By Utibe Effiong, University of Michigan and Lauretta Ovadje, University of Michigan In January, the New York Times highlighted how inse... Read more

Explainer: what is polycystic ovary syndrome? By Roger Hart, University of Western Australia Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal condition that disrupts ovulation and the menstrua... Read more

Explainer: what exactly is coronavirus? By Arinjay Banerjee, University of Saskatchewan and Grant Hill-Cawthorne, University of Sydney The conflicts in Syria and Iraq are straining public he... Read more

Explainer: is the Ebola virus mutating? By Connor Bamford, University of Glasgow The world has been keeping a very close eye on the Ebola virus for nearly a year now following the extraordin... Read more

Will the Millennium Development Goals hit their targets? By Anna Childs, The Open University At the dawn of the 21st century, 189 UN member states adopted the Millennium Declaration as the f... Read more

Health Check: why mosquitoes seem to bite some people more By Cameron Webb, University of Sydney There’s always one in a crowd, a sort of harbinger of the oncoming mosquito onslaught: a pers... Read more