For safe travels, make sure you vaccinate yourself.

Forensic medicine is the branch of medicine concerned with the resolution of legal issues by the application of scientific medical knowledge. An important development in forensic medicine is genetic analysis, ie DNA profiling.

Influenza may be a common infection but it can bring serious complications for children and the sick and elderly.

As HPV infection is a major cause of cervical cancer, vaccination offers the hope of a reduction in the incidence of this cancer.

A look at the rogue virus that causes severe diarrhoea among young children.

There are many aspects of traditional and complementary medicine (T/CM) that need to be addressed in the regulation of the practice, which have, to date, flourished without any accountability.

Increased travellingto Africa and LatinAmerica raises therisks of yellow feverinfections here.

Although hepatitis A infection is rarely fatal, the suffering of those infected can be considerable.

Meningitis is a potentially serious condition due to the proximity of the inflammation to the brain and spinal cord.

Vaccination can eliminate invasive Hib infections that cause pneumonia and meningitis.

You would think that a hospital is the safest place a patient can be in. Unfortunately, for those admitted, there are factors that can make their hospital stay a not so safe experience.

The national immunisation schedule includes a course of a combined vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) for a year-old child, with a booster a month later.