The global over-reaction to coronavirus has again exposed a lack of preparedness that will persist unless we spend as much on health as on weapons, says Julie Sunderland

The American Medical Association has urged Americans to stop using electronic cigarettes of any sort until scientists have a better handle on the cause of 450 lung illnesses and at least five deaths related to the use of the products.

Vaxxed, the controversial movie on the conspiracies surrounding the MMR vaccine, lacks credibility, says Michael Clifford.

President Donald Trump said Barack Obama's health care law covers "very few people" as he minimised the impact of replacing it.

A Honduran woman infected with zika gave birth in New Jersey to a baby girl with birth defects caused by the virus, her doctor said yesterday.

Passengers aboard a cruise ship that set sail from Southampton may have norovirus, US authorities say.

US health officials say there is now enough evidence that the zika virus can cause unusually small heads and brain damage in babies.

US health officials have said there is now enough evidence to say the Zika virus can cause unusually small heads and brain damage in babies.

A teenager from Texas who contracted a brain-eating disease after swimming in a lake about 110km north of Houston has died .

While nearly all health professionals deny a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, rates of measles are rising in the US and the author of the discredited study is unapolegitic, writes Stav Ziv

A laboratory technician at the US public health watchdog is being monitored for possible accidental exposure to the Ebola virus that came during an experiment.

A 26-year-old Indian man who was cured of Ebola in Liberia has been placed in isolation at the New Delhi airport after traces of the virus were found in his semen, India’s Health Ministry says.

A woman who arrived in New Jersey on a flight from west Africa has tested negative for Ebola in a preliminary test.

Alarmed governors of New Jersey and New York have ordered a mandatory, 21-day quarantine of all medical workers and other arriving airline passengers who have had contact with victims of the deadly Ebola disease in west Africa.

President Barack Obama vowed his administration would respond in a “much more aggressive way” to cases of Ebola in the United States.

Fears of the ebola virus have deepened with word that a second US nurse caught the disease from a patient and flew across the country’s mid-west aboard an airliner the day before she was diagnosed.

Fears of the Ebola virus have deepened with word that a second US nurse caught the disease from a patient and flew across the Midwest aboard an airliner the day before she was diagnosed.

A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas hospital for hours, the largest US nurses’ union has said.

A US nurse who caught Ebola while treating a Liberian patient who died of the disease has received a plasma transfusion donated by a doctor who beat the virus.

A medical clinic outside of Boston was quarantined and a patient has been isolated outside the hospital with a possible case of ebola, the Boston Globe reported last night.

The first person diagnosed with ebola in the US died yesterday as the government ordered five airports to screen passengers from West Africa for fever.

The first person to develop ebola in the US was struggling to survive at a Dallas hospital yesterday after his condition worsened to critical, the director of the US Centres for Disease Control said.

About 80 people are now being monitored for symptoms of Ebola in Texas, health officials said, after a man was diagnosed with the disease in Dallas.

The airline passenger who brought Ebola into the US initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa, the hospital said.

A man who flew from Liberia to Texas has become the first patient infected with the deadly ebola virus to be diagnosed in the United States, health officials said, a sign the outbreak ravaging West Africa may spread globally.

A patient at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States.

A patient being treated at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, federal health officials have confirmed.

The spread of ebola seems to have stabilised in Guinea, one of three West African states worst-hit by the disease, but a lack of beds and resistance in affected communities means its advance continues elsewhere, the World Health Organisation said.

US health officials laid out worst-case and best-case scenarios for the ebola epidemic in West Africa, warning that the number of infected people could explode to at least 1.4m by mid-January — or peak well below that, if efforts to control the outbreak are ramped up.

A member of staff from the US Centers for Disease Control who worked in close proximity to someone infected by the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has been flown back home to Atlanta by charter jet to monitor potential symptoms, officials said.

A scary problem lurks beyond the frenzied efforts to keep people from spreading ebola: No one knows exactly where the virus comes from or how to stop it from seeding new outbreaks.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread.

Africans battling to contain the spread of ebola will have to wait for months until a potentially life-saving experimental drug used on two Americans infected with the dreaded disease would be manufactured, officials said.

The second American aid worker recently diagnosed with Ebola in west Africa was en route to Atlanta today after a customs and refuelling stop in Maine.

China has sealed off parts of its north-western city of Yumen after a resident died of bubonic plague last week, state media said.

US government workers cleaning out an old storage room at a research centre near Washington have made a startling discovery — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.

I have not once heard the ‘anti-water fluoridation’ people say that stopping water fluoridation (a many times proven way to improve dental health) would disproportionately impact on the lower socio-economic groups.

Taiwan has heightened surveillance of travellers from China after authorities confirmed the island’s first case of a deadly new strain of bird flu.

Nineteen US states have now been affected by a deadly meningitis break.

Mr Waugh in his recent letter on the link between fluoride and atherosclerosis (Letters, Jul 23) fails to point out that the fluoride involved in this study was part of a whole-body sodium fluoride dose administered by intravenous injection in nuclear medicine for the treatment of cancerous tumours.