SANTA Claus has been accused of acting in ways that could "damage millions of lives".

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Which major American cities are most susceptible to biological weapons attack?

Chicago's hub-and-spoke layout makes it hard for diseases to spread, since they tend to move towards the fringes of the city and become isolated there. Washington, DC's giant wheel means that some virus's could continue circulating indefinitely- circling around the wheel forever.

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Fascinating study showing racial disparities in outcome for some cancers but not others-why the difference?

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A video presentation by virus hunter Nathan Wolfe.

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Adolescent Brit flies swine-flu home and closes down school. One victim sald it was just like a cold .

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Alerting the vine to another distressing story about MRSA. Please heed, MRSA is a pernicious epidemic and thus warrants a massive campaign to abate its transmission and subsequent mutations. Where is the U.S Public Health Services?

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Babies conceived using in vitro fertilisation are two to four times as likely to have certain birth defects than those conceived naturally, US researchers said.

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When getting to market takes this much effort, epidemiologists consider it a threat to our collective health.

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This Tuesday, search giant Google released an experimental tool that tracks the intensity and movement of the influenza virus across the United States by monitoring the number of times that people search the Web using terms related to the disease.

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There is a new common symptom of the flu, in addition to the usual aches, coughs, fevers and sore throats. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like "flu symptoms" into Google and other search engines before they call their doctor.

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A blogging doctor lightheartedly ties cannibalism to margarine. See, tribesmen used to eat the brains of dead relatives, but Australia put a stop to that. Similarly, trans fats are banned in New York eateries.

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On the eve of the International AIDS Conference, which begins in Mexico City Sunday, researchers at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston claim to have discovered a way to destroy the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

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Using the government's own data, a private agency called PowerWatch concludes that there is in fact a link between low-frequency and electromagnetic fields, to childhood leukemia and other cancers.

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HIV infections are predicted to rise by more than 70% among gay men in Victoria by 2015 if current trends in their behaviour continue, a report has warned.

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A new study maps out areas of the world that researchers think are most likely to breed the killer diseases of the future—and the highlighted countries are not the ones getting most of the resources for disease prevention.

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Plague may not match the so-called "big three" diseases (malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis; see for example [62]) in numbers of current cases, but it far exceeds them in pathogenicity and rapid spread under the right conditions.

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Transmission of hospital acquired infections like the "superbug" MRSA could be cut using the method that Google uses to rank search results, say UK researchers.

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This article is a summary and commentary on recent research connecting HIV prevalence and rates of infection by various parasitic worms. The author provides several suggestions for progressing further in the treatment or prevention of HIV and helminth infection.

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Violence is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in South Africa and needs to be researched from a public health perspective. Typically in violence research, socioeconomic position is used in the analysis to control for confounding.

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An outbreak of chikungunya virus in the southern Indian state of Kerala has prompted researchers to develop a new diagnostic test to distinguish chikungunya from dengue viruses.

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Seriously addressing comorbidity and the integration of human and animal health would represent a major stride forward in eliminating neglected environmental and sanitary issues, and would concomitantly bring NTDs into greater prominence.

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The development and widespread application of a single summary measure of population health has greatly facilitated scientific and political assessments of the comparative importance of various diseases, injuries, and risk factors, particularly for priority setting in the health  …

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HIV-infected people with a lower amount of the virus in their blood have the potential to infect more people than those with a high viral load, suggests new research.

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On September 13, 2005, a disease outbreak claimed the lives of uncounted thousands and rendered a number of cities uninhabitable.

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Michelle Hammond and Jeremiah Holland were intrigued when a friend at the Oakland Tribune asked them and their two young children to take part in a cutting-edge study to measure the industrial chemicals in their bodies. Tests showed that Rowan, at 18 months, had high levels o …

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