Britain’s poorest now face ill health in their 50s, experts have warned, as new analysis shows healthy life expectancy has…
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As Britain swelters through a heatwave that has pushed thermometers above 34°C in London and the South East, millions of…
One in three people in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak do not accept that…
Leeanne Grassnick was diagnosed with incurable colon cancer that had already spread to her liver, a discovery that came months…
A benign tumour diagnosis transformed a life sentence into a bonus. In January 2007, a 52-year-old man sat in an…
Severe, drenching night sweats that soak through clothing and bedding should not be dismissed as mere hormonal changes or a…
Two sexually transmitted diseases have reached their highest levels in over a decade, with gonorrhoea and syphilis diagnoses surging across…
Every week, teenage girls in Sierra Leone’s Tonkolili District walk miles to crowd into two small rooms – not for…
A rare rodent-borne virus outbreak aboard a cruise ship was identified within 24 hours, after a team of South African…
Global outbreak responses consistently fail by not prioritising speed, a pattern that the current Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic…