Nothing goes to waste where people are living on the breadline, and few opportunities to make a little extra money…
It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the AIDS epidemic began. The first death assumed to be caused by Acquired…
It started with the death of eight-year-old Jaime Garcia in his mother’s arms on the way to hospital. When doctors…
Described as ‘the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS’, the tainted ‘Hemofil’ blood product that was used…
After a series of disastrous harvests in the late 1960s, Saddam Hussein applied for an aid shipment of 90,000 tons…
Images of the effects of Thalidomide are firmly etched into the public consciousness. What was originally seen as a safe…
Poliomyelitis is a peculiarly nasty, highly contagious disease of the central nervous system that all too often leaves its victims…
Doctors first noticed something strange in the Japanese coastal town of Minimata towards the end of April 1956. Patients were…
It goes by the name of ‘potcheen’ in Ireland, ‘hooch’ or ‘moonshine’ in North America and batti sarai in India.…
The ‘sleeping’ or ‘sleepy’ sickness that swept the world in the 1920s had nothing in common with the tropical disease.…