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Mpox, known as monkeypox, is caused by infection with a virus that’s in the same family as the one that causes smallpox

There hasn't been a new COPD treatment in years. But Regeneron stock analysts are closely watching a pair of key FDA decisions.

Neurologists say smartwatches can give better understanding of how to treat disease

Health minister says ‘one death is too many, especially from a preventable and manageable disease’

We’re hearing a lot about ultra-processed foods and the health effects of eating too many. And we know plant-based foods are popular for health or other reasons.

Individually, rare diseases are rare, but there are so many rare diseases that over 400 million people are affected worldwide. Together, rare diseases aren’t so rare.

Researchers found that people who ate a plant-based diet of mostly non ultra-processed foods had a lower risk of both fatal and non fatal cardiovascular events.

The smart watch was able to pick up on decreases in arm swing, a common feature of the disease

Malaria is often considered a tropical disease, but data hidden in historical human remains has shed new light on the parasite's world travels.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s attacks on Italy’s cultural heritage – from libel suits against intellectuals to her government’s censorship of texts critical of Mussolini – have made headlines across Europe. Less attention, however, has been granted to the agricultural minister’s blows on the country’s natural heritage. Francesco Lollobrigida, who has…

Wastewater surveillance hit the big time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when officials started using this technique to monitor local virus levels. But my colleagues and I had been exploring wastewater’s promise as a public health tool years before anyone had heard of SARS-CoV-2.