The Latest Breaking News from Disease

Like Covid, flu carries significant risk of ongoing disability and disease, researchers say

The health benefits of eating seafood are appreciated in many cultures which rely upon it to provide critical nutrients vital to our physical and mental development and health. Eating fish and shellfish provides significant benefits to neurological development and functioning and provides protection against the risks of coronary heart disease…

Around a decade ago, an invasive fungal disease called myrtle rust reached Australia and began to spread like a plague through certain plants. The disease affects plants of the Myrtaceae family, which includes eucalypts, paperbarks and lilly pillies, and makes up 10% of Australian plant biodiversity/

Younger children more at risk of severe disease from measles.

New gene therapies promise a cure for sickle cell disease but experts say they are out of reach in places that need them the most

Apellis said Thursday it expects European regulators to reject its eye disease drug, Syfovre. APLS stock tumbled below its 200-day line.

Prescription drugs and vaccines revolutionized health care, dramatically decreasing death from disease and improving quality of life across the globe. But how do researchers, universities and hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry decide which diseases to pursue developing drugs for?

Harvard prof seeks people for trial of medication aimed at stopping Alzheimer’s before symptoms begin.

Border counties in Texas have some of the highest Alzheimer’s diagnosis rates in the nation, with rates ranging from 13% to 18% of people aged 65 and over.