With crucial midterm elections approaching, senior US health officials are conspicuously softening their once-vocal criticisms of routine vaccinations, a strategic…
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News on diseases, epidemics, vaccinations, cancer, screening programmes, flu, norovirus, COVID and UKHSA health warnings affecting the UK.
The BA.3.2 Omicron variant, a significantly mutated descendant of the virus, has now been detected in 29 US states and…
For nearly a year, 26-year-old Sumbul Ari knew something was profoundly wrong with her body. What began as relentless itching…
More than six in ten men in the UK have experienced the discomfort of anal itching, according to a new…
The national rollout of screening for the rare genetic condition spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in newborns is to begin earlier…
A social media user’s painful medical ordeal has sparked an online debate about underwear choices, with thongs being blamed by…
A decision by the UK government to end its financial support for the global fight against polio has placed decades…
Colon cancer, once firmly a disease of older age, is now striking a growing number of younger adults, a quiet…
In a triumphant return to the stage she once dominated, Céline Dion has announced a series of comeback concerts in…
The World Health Organization is facing the loss of more than a quarter of its staff by the end of…