Series

Kidney disease is on the increase in Nigeria due to changing lifestyles. There is a chronic shortage of trained healthworkers and the equipment needed to be able to deal with this disease;...

People suffered immense trauma in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge rule. But as recently as 1993, there wasn’t a single mental health professional in the country. With support from the University of Oslo,...

US military staff from the hospital ship USNS Comfort are bringing medical relief and surgical care to local communities in Guatemala. Over 270 metres long, thirty-two metres wide and as tall as...

UNSN Comfort is a military hospital ship deployed to Latin America on a five-month humanitarian mission. Just like any hospital, it has operating theatres and wards for general and special surgical care. Staff perform...

Doctors at Churchill Hospital in Oxford are carrying out clinical trials to destroy cancerous tumours without the use of surgery. David Atwell, a keen tennis player, was recently treated for kidney cancer with...

A brand new vaccine against seasonal flu has to be created once a year for both the northern and southern hemispheres. The constant and rapid evolution of the virus means an effective vaccine...

Tsetse flies, the blood-sucking insects that transmit the potentially fatal sleeping sickness disease, are usually found in Sub-Saharan Africa. But a large colony can currently be found at the Institute of Tropical...

Only 10% of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s biggest city, is connected to the central sewage system. The pit latrines often over fill and emptying them is infrequent, dangerous and unhygienic. Water Aid...

According to the Haitian government, the January 2010 earthquake cost 230,000 lives and injured 300,000 people. Leon Ginsly suffered a serious spinal cord injury when his house collapsed, killing his wife and eight...

Doctors and nurses have been using the same black “Gladstone” bag for over 150 years. They can harbour dangerous bacteria and important medical items can be lost in the many crevices and...