Expectant mothers and app-equipped city residents have roles to play in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people annually.
People who suffer from back pain may get relief from research showing that electrical fields and fish genes provide novel building blocks for a healthy skeleton.
Millions of people facing heart failure could benefit from new advances in artificial versions of the organ.
Better tailoring prescriptions to the unique biological make-up of each patient could lead to big improvements in health.
Europe has gone from thinking music could stop plagues 400 years ago to realising it can help prevent cardiovascular disease today.
Researchers are joining forces with the food and health industries to tighten controls and improve nutrition for infants and children.
With the only cure for liver cancer often being a transplantation, scientists are honing the selection of patients for this life-saving surgery and growing replacement livers in a lab.
With extreme precision needed for certain medical operations, state-of-the-art robots offer a way to make surgery easier, safer and more successful.
New personalised approaches to depression will either predict when a person is at risk to stop the condition in its tracks or target the illness with the optimum drug.
Triple negative breast cancer is a hard-to-treat form that accounts for 15% of all cases, with recovery hopes emerging from chemotherapy drugs that stimulate the immune system and others that cause…