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Health officials have issued a warning to travellers after 19 cases of the insect-borne illness Oropouche virus were confirmed for the first time ever in Europe. Those who had tested positive for the virus had recently returned from holiday in Cuba and Brazil.

Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has taken the unprecedented step of declaring the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public health emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO) is also meeting to decide whether to trigger its highest global alert…

Health outcomes for refugees and people with humanitarian visas are far worse than the general Australian population. They are more likely to self-report long-term conditions, including diabetes (80% higher), kidney disease (80%), stroke (40%) and dementia (30%).

Ascendis Pharma stock zoomed higher Monday — closing in on a breakout — after the FDA signed off on its embattled hypoparathyroid disease drug.

The first malaria-endemic country to adopt tafenoquine hopes to eliminate the disease by 2035

A MATERNAL vaccination programme which could protect newborn babies from serious lung disease has been welcomed by Scotland’s First Minister.

We keep pretending that the pandemic is done and over, but it keeps knocking us off our feet

Kidneys are the organs most frequently trafficked, driven by the high demand resulting from increased rates of renal disease linked to diabetes

Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s parents tell of desperate efforts to find help and their desire to improve treatment for others

A rare gene variant may explain why a subset of patients with ALS recover from the deadly disease.

These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who are infected.