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Prescott passed away on Wednesday after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his family announced

Brisk walking for 30 minutes a day can have big positive impact on unfit people, researchers say

"Butterfly disease" is a potentially fatal, inherited disorder that causes patients to blister very easily.

A couple who discover that three of their four children have a degenerative eye disease go on a round-the-world family holiday in this beautifully shot but saccharine documentary

It is also hoped to restore ‘majestic’ English elms to the land destroyed by disease by planting 400 new disease-resistant elm trees.

Kidney disease advocates are calling for earlier treatment, increased research and more organ transplants to end Australia's dependence on outdated dialysis.

Experts have profiled more than 100 million cells from more than 10,000 people across the world.

Every winter, GP surgeries and hospitals see an increase in visits from people with respiratory conditions.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gone so far as to suggest that the Food and Drug Administration should eliminate its nutrition operations.

Diabetes develops when the body fails to manage its blood glucose levels. One form of diabetes causes the body to not produce insulin at all. Called Type 1 diabetes, or T1D, this autoimmune disease happens when the body’s defense system mistakes its own insulin-producing cells as foreign and kills them.…

Pakistan struggles with 50 polio cases this year, facing challenges in eradicating the disease. Urgent efforts needed to ensure healthcare worker safety.