Engineer Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low-resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics.

A new study from the Cary Institute found 10% of ticks sampled carried multiple pathogens, including those that cause Lyme and babesiosis.

Study shows many ticks carry several infections, increasing health risks and making diagnosis harder after bites.

A Zambian scientist is on a quest to prevent brain drain from Africa so he's established a state-of-the-art drug discovery lab in South Africa.

More than a year after the second Trump administration began dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the global health consequences of this unprecedented loss in international ...

Degrees Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SXTP; SXTPW) ("60 Degrees" or the "Company"), a pharmaceutical company focused on developing new medicines for vector-borne disease, today announced that three ...

A doctor-tech leader from India argues that genomic data infrastructure, resistance forecasting and sovereign AI discovery tools will be critical to future regional pandemic response.

For many people dedicated to global health, their hero died on Jan 24, 2026. The passing of the American epidemiologist William “Bill” H Foege (1936–2026) should not, however, be seen as an ending, ...

When floods sweep through southern Africa, the most visible damage is immediate: homes washed away, crops destroyed, clinics disrupted, families displaced. These images dominate headlines and ...

A blockbuster anti-obesity and diabetes drug could cost as little as $3 per month to manufacture once it goes off patent ...

Alhaji Oladotun Odunaye retired at the directorate level from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 2016, after decades of service in Ogun and Edo states and electoral assignments in ...

What Washington calls a reset on aid, some African governments and activists see as new strings attached, from mining ...