Health
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The health department that serves Houston is at the forefront of efforts to limit the spread of the mosquito-borne disease, and there’s no ‘silver bullet’
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The county health department is collecting mosquitoes so it can test for viruses – hoping to prevent what officials believe might become a pandemic
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A small community in Snowflake, Arizona, has retreated into the desert – but is their environmental illness real?
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With rates of human papilloma virus on the rise, it is vital to immunise males as well as females, researchers believe
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Matthew Daley killed retiree Donald Lock just days after family had asked for him to be sectioned
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Health officials say some workers at a federal immigration detention center have turned down vaccine, helping fuel the largest current outbreak in the US
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This week, we cheered Nasa spacecraft’s arrival at Jupiter, embraced goats as our new best friends and probed a study on fertility treatments
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Recent figures show that the number of prescriptions for antidepressants in England has soared in the last 10 years, up to 61m last year. But the reasons for this rise are complex
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NHS England defied as it seeks to boost surgeons’ skills with bigger pool of patients at fewer sites, shutting Royal Brompton, Leicester and Manchester units
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Calls mount for House speaker Paul Ryan to get funding bill on president’s desk before Congress adjourns for the summer
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Retired Wimbledon winner rejects claims she has eating disorder and says ‘horrendous’ virus makes her unable to eat most food
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Landmark study shows how existing drugs could potentially be repurposed to treat new groups of patients
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LGA report cites assemblies on mental health and peer mentors as initiatives schools and centres could use to tackle anxiety and depression
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Allergic to life: the Arizona residents 'sensitive to the whole world'