Kate Kelland

GENEVA/LONDON - Five key groups, including gay men, prostitutes and prisoners, have stubbornly high rates of HIV that are threatening progress in the global AIDS battle, the World Health Organisation...

GENEVA/LONDON - Five key groups, including gay men, prostitutes and prisoners, have stubbornly high rates of HIV that are threatening progress in the global AIDS battle, the World Health Organisation...

LONDON (Reuters) - Combining two types of polio vaccine, including one that is injected rather than given orally, appears to give better immunity and could speed efforts to eradicate the...

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The discovery of a schistosomiasis parasite egg in a 6,200-year-old grave in Syria may be the earliest evidence that agricultural irrigation systems in the...

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found a way of genetically modifying mosquitoes to produce sperm that only creates males, offering a potential fresh approach to fighting and...

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Superbugs resistant to drugs pose a serious worldwide threat and demand a response on the same scale as efforts to combat climate change, infectious...

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The GAVI global vaccines alliance appealed on Tuesday for $7.5 billion to help immunize another 300 million children against life-threatening diseases between 2016 and...

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - British researchers are launching the largest study in the world to investigate whether using mobile phones and other wireless gadgets might affect children's brain...