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Health
India TB: Can vaccines help India triumph over tuberculosis?
In 2018, India set for itself the lofty goal of eliminating pulmonary tuberculosis...
Landais Alzheimer - the village where everyone has dementia
Landais Alzheimer, in south-west France, is a village with a difference - all the...
JN.1 Covid variant: WHO charts its rapid global spread
A sub-variant of the Omicron strain of coronavirus has been classified as a "variant...
Why Covid is still flooring some people
What is it like to catch Covid now? It is a question I have been pondering since...
Cystic fibrosis: The miracle drugs priced out of reach
When Vertex Pharmaceuticals developed a treatment for genetic condition cystic fibrosis...
World-first trial finds arthritis drug may help treat type...
Type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition that causes a person's blood sugar level...
Why syphilis is rising around the world
Syphilis is one of the oldest known sexually transmitted infections. Once thought...
The painful puzzle of diseases that have no name
Helene Cederroth lost three children to an undiagnosed disease. While relatively...
Why clean air is a luxury that many can't afford
Although almost everyone in the world now breathes air that is polluted in some...
Still no medical cannabis trials for NHS - five years on...
Five years after medical cannabis was legalised, the government still hasn't funded...
Essex mental health unit neglect led to teen's death -...
A failure of basic protocol at an NHS mental health unit led to a patient dying...
PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says
A drug which stops HIV infecting the body has proved to be a highly effective "real-world"...
Untreated diseases could kill more than bombings in Gaza,...
Untreated diseases could eventually kill more people in Gaza than bombings if the...
Australia cracks down on single-use vaping devices
Australia says it will ban the import of disposable vaping devices from the start...
Is China muddling its response to cold and flu spike?
China's cold and flu season is in full swing. Images of full hospital waiting rooms...