As Ebola, Mers and HIV/Aids make headlines, what are the biggest risks to the world's health? And what is being done about them?

He's been labelled a 'national hero' for battling Sierra Leone's deadly Ebola outbreak. Now he's been infected with the disease that has no cure.

An American beauty queen has become a figurehead for diabetes sufferers after winning Miss Idaho contest while wearing her insulin pump.

Asthma inhalers can stunt the growth of children, UK research suggests.

Senior American scientists have been abruptly dismissed from a US Government advisory board on dangerous biological agents.

A US government laboratory mistakenly mixed a common flu strain with a dangerous and deadly type of bird flu and shipped it to another lab.

If you're in a hurry to meet your maker, a religious pilgrimage may be the most direct route.

When Vicki Parry's highly trained Siberian husky nudges forcefully into her leg, she knows it's time to do a diabetes test of her blood-sugar level.

Measles outbreaks have forced two large Hamilton schools to quarantine students and cancel or postpone all sporting, cultural and academic trips for the rest of the term. One has postponed its school ball.

Australia is preparing for an invasion by an aggressive and exotic pest that threatens to spread dengue fever to southern capitals.

Hospital wards need to be redesigned to provide urgently needed defences against the spread of deadly, antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Many microscopic bugs and bacteria live on our skin and within our various nooks and crannies.

Eating fast food and consuming sugary drinks renders the most common asthma inhaler ineffective, a study warns.

An outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever that doctors yesterday described as unprecedented has spread to three countries in West Africa.

A swine flu outbreak has struck in Hawke's Bay. Eight patients have been infected, including three who are in intensive care and one who is in a coma.

An ebola outbreak has killed almost 60 people in Guinea, and may have spread to neighbouring Sierra Leone.

More New Zealanders are using the internet to research their medical woes - and some are using their findings to treat themselves rather than visit a doctor.

At least 20 people in California, most of them children, have been infected by a rare polio-like disease, which doctors have yet to identify conclusively.

Public health authorities are working to prevent a measles outbreak after 19 students from an Auckland high school contracted the disease.

An Auckland biotech company has suspended a human trial of an experiment Parkinson's disease treatment following the retraction of previous animal research.

When Louis Corbett's parents were told their young son was losing his sight they asked him what he'd like to do before his vision was completely gone.

The Ministry for Primary Industries says it may never know the origin of a neurological strain of equine herpes which has so far killed seven thoroughbred horses.

A neurological strain of equine herpes has struck in New Zealand for the first time - killing six thoroughbred horses and infecting six others.