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A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the country's last outbreak ended in 2023

The U.S. government gives other nations US$68 billion of foreign assistance annually – more than any other country. Over half of this sum is managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, including funds for programs aimed at fighting hunger and disease outbreaks, providing humanitarian relief in war zones, and…

Experts hope to create a blood test to see which patients with inflammatory bowel disease are most at risk of bowel cancer.

Trump’s nominee for health secretary faced a group of bipartisan senators during the first day of his confirmation hearing

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Robert F Kennedy Jr has insisted he is not ‘anti-vaccine’ and said he would rapidly address increasing rates of chronic disease in the US

ANALYSIS: At his confirmation hearing, Robert F Kennedy Jr. was haunted by dozens of hours of podcast appearances from his time on the fringes of health science, Richard Hall writes.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. highlights pandemic prevention and chronic disease management in Senate hearing, facing scrutiny.

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction erodes genetic diversity, because a species’ gene pool shrinks as the population declines. Losing genetic diversity limits the ability of…