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American Medical Association finds people in US are sick for an average of 12.4 years, an increase from figure in 2000

If you’ve ever had a doctor order a blood test for you, chances are that they ran a complete blood count, or CBC. One of the most common blood tests in the world, CBC tests are run billions of times each year to diagnose conditions and monitor patients’ health.

Authorities say the mystery flu-like illness that has killed dozens of people in southwest Congo in recent weeks might be malaria

More than one in three cases of disease and injury this year could have been avoided, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare finds

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in shocking numbers. Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter gutting depictions of losing a child, and I am reminded that not knowing the emotional cost of widespread child mortality is a luxury.

In 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the global eradication of polio. Within a decade, one of the three poliovirus strains was already virtually eradicated — meaning a permanent reduction of the disease to zero new cases worldwide.

Researchers said the fast and non-invasive technique could pave the way for a screening test for multiple forms of cancer.

Malaria mortality has fallen back to levels seen before the Covid-19 crisis, the WHO said Wednesday, but called for faster progress against the disease that killed nearly some 597,000 people last year.

The technology, which enables a gene to spread itself through a population, might prove a significant tool for disease prevention

Patients may be suffering from multiple diseases simultaneously

The jab targets parasites after they pass through the liver and into the blood, which is the stage that causes symptoms including fever and chills.