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Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that mosquitoes are highly sensitive to fungi. One particular fungus, beauveria bassiana, is lethal for mosquitoes, but harmless to humans and other animals. Experts are now using the...

Research from the Liverpool School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine shows that mosquitoes are developing resistance to insecticides. Scientists are extracting the DNA from mosquitoes to work out what it is in their...

A new, simple, plastic device, which needs no anaesthetic, surgery or stitches will be used to circumcise up to two million men in Rwanda. Male circumcision reduces the chances of men in heterosexual...

Dr Ayodyha Wataliyadda, a paediatric doctor from Sri Lanka, is furthering her medical career with a two-year placement in Yorkshire, England. She has signed a bond that for every year spent in...

Dr Muchtiar Khan is one of only two heart surgeons in the Netherlands performing heart surgery with the click of a mouse. In the film he operates on a patient using a...

Lord Darzi is one of the world’s leading surgeons, specialising in keyhole and robot-assisted surgery. Chair of surgery at Imperial College, Lord Darzi talks about the challenges of medical training and how we...

In Lesotho, health workers are traveling far and wide to make sure HIV-positive mothers do whatever they can to prevent HIV transmission to their babies. Mothers often refuse to seek treatment because of...

Across Lesotho, motorbikes are constantly ferrying medical samples from clinic to lab, or allowing health workers to reach the communities they serve. These services rely on their bikes day after day. But keeping...

Lesotho has the 4th highest TB rate in the world and drug-resistant TB is a serious problem. A major cause of this drug resistance is patients not correctly completing their treatment regime. Motorbikes...

Healthworkers are quickly transporting medical results and treatment by motorbike, helping save lives in rural Lesotho. In the past people could wait up to two or three months for HIV and TB results...