Medical advice for travellers

‘If you love or are a woman, don’t go to Malta,’ say couple in abortion drama

After her ‘babymoon’ became a tragic medical crisis, Andrea Prudente wants to use her story to oppose bans on abortion

Megan Clement

28, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM

Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak

‘Self isolate’ for some of world’s richest means Covid-19 tests abroad, personal medics and subterranean hide-outs

Rupert Neate wealth correspondent

11, Mar, 2020 @7:50 PM

Cheap hotels have killed the sleeper | Letters

Letters

31, Mar, 2017 @5:47 PM

Guinea's Ebola outbreak: what is the virus and what's being done?

African nation is facing an Ebola epidemic of a 'magnitude never before seen', with nearly 80 deaths so far. So what's being done to stop its spread?

Alan Yuhas

01, Apr, 2014 @4:20 PM

Dengue fever rise prompts doctors to warn of insect bites abroad

Travellers to far east and Caribbean told to be on lookout for warning signs after cases of tropical disease rise threefold

James Meikle

15, May, 2013 @11:31 AM

Holidaymakers at risk as doctors run out of typhoid vaccine

Supply crisis sparked by manufacturer's recall – 700,000 people already injected could be affected

Haroon Siddique

25, Dec, 2012 @10:00 AM

Foreign hospitals count cost of young UK holidaymakers

FCO reports a huge rise in the number of British teenagers being hospitalised while holidaying abroad

Lisa Bachelor and Jill Insley

19, Jul, 2012 @6:00 AM

Owners of Ubertan tanning spray could face two years in prison

Government watchdog MHRA advises people not to use the tanning nasal spray, which was being sold illegally in the UK

Helen Clifton

19, Aug, 2011 @11:50 AM

Why do diseases love a good festival? | Riazat Butt

The Lancet is holding a conference on mass gatherings and how to prevent the globalisation of infection. Appropriately, says Riazat Butt, the venue is Jeddah, gateway to the hajj

Riazat Butt

11, Oct, 2010 @4:56 PM

Travel insurance: do you really need it for a European holiday?

Is the European health insurance card enough when travelling abroad or is full medical insurance an essential?

Jill Papworth

10, Sep, 2010 @11:01 PM

Response: Don't let the phoney melanoma scare keep you out of the sun

Response: There are many good reasons why we won't – and shouldn't – give up our tan, says Sam Shuster

Sam Shuster

20, Jul, 2010 @11:05 PM

Hindu pilgrims warned of high altitude dangers

Spate of deaths in Himalayas alarms medical experts

Ed Douglas

06, Jul, 2009 @5:49 PM

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