For eight years, Mike Bell believed he had Parkinson’s disease. He attended the World Parkinson Congress in Spain, wrote a…
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News on diseases, epidemics, vaccinations, cancer, screening programmes, flu, norovirus, COVID and UKHSA health warnings affecting the UK.
Decades of development failure are fuelling the current Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the head of…
Europe is experiencing its most severe heatwave on record, an oppressive force that has shattered national temperature records, overwhelmed critical…
Doctors have warned that soaring summer temperatures do more than cause heat exhaustion and sunburn — the searing heat can…
Just two micrograms of vitamin B12 a day is enough to keep the human body going — less than a…
Eight nations, including the United States, voted against a United Nations political declaration on HIV/AIDS this week, breaking a two-decade…
Conceptions among women over 40 in England and Wales have reached a record high, according to the latest figures from…
Britain has recorded its hottest June day on record, with the mercury hitting a provisional 36.7°C in Merryfield, Somerset, just…
Ebola could reach South Sudan within weeks, the World Health Organisation has warned, as modelling suggests the fast‑spreading outbreak in…
New emails show that a colleague of Robert F Kennedy Jr told Samoan officials the pair were travelling to the…