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Researchers made a surprising connection between certain viral diseases and Alzheimer’s

A study found that people who had suffered the herpes virus had an 80% increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Former President Joe Biden's office says his “last known” prostate cancer screening was in 2014, and he had never been diagnosed with the disease before last week

Critics say shift will negatively affect people who are not high risk but want to be vaccinated against the disease

The outbreak of the deadly “mud bug” melioidosis in north Queensland has not yet abated since it began at the start of this year.

“Me encontraron càncer en la pròstata,” my father told me. “They found cancer in my prostate.”

Here's what one expert has to say about the so-called superfood.

The Animal and Plant Health Agency has reported a case of BSE in Essex

ANALYSIS: Negotiations to ensure richer countries share vaccines and drugs with poorer countries during health emergencies had threatened to derail negotiations, writes Rachel Schraer

A new aggressive potato blight strain was detected in Wales and eastern Scotland earlier this year. The strain, identified as EU 46, can withstand certain fungicides, making it harder to control. It serves as a stark reminder that nearly 175 years after Ireland’s great famine, this destructive pathogen continues to…

Science is awesome. Just recently, surgeons in the U.S. transplanted a pig kidney into a man. Last year, scientists finally successfully sequenced the Y chromosome.