For six months, Phil and his mother rode a rollercoaster of hope that defied medical expectation, only for it to…
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News on diseases, epidemics, vaccinations, cancer, screening programmes, flu, norovirus, COVID and UKHSA health warnings affecting the UK.
Adults who have never married face significantly higher rates of cancer than their married, divorced, or widowed peers, according to…
For Jolene and Spencer Eddy, a young family from Williston, North Dakota, the unthinkable became reality when both were diagnosed…
A young man who noticed alarming changes to his body was repeatedly told his age made cancer impossible, a dismissal…
Bowel cancer, a disease long associated with older age, is now being diagnosed with increasing frequency in adults under the…
An estimated half a million people in the UK are living with a sexually transmitted infection that the overwhelming majority…
The UK government’s decision to terminate its funding for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) after 2026 threatens to undermine…
High-dose influenza vaccinations have been linked to a dramatic 55% reduction in the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease in adults…
A curious and slightly alarming question posted to Reddit – “A guy told me his semen has crystals in it.…
Proposed cuts to US federal HIV prevention funding could trigger a surge of up to 10% in new infections over…