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Wolman disease is thought to occur in one in every 350,000 births.

Each year, vaccines prevent thousands of deaths and hospitalisations in Australia.

A landmark inquiry into the NSW health system will not be adversarial or blame people working within it for issues and will rather identify ways to improve it.

Rates for shot against pneumococcal disease are also lagging, Grattan Institute says, urging government to increase take-up

Hannah Povey’s dog Betsy fell ill following a walk in the South Downs National Park

Union Health Ministry on Sunday directed State governments to ensure that the trends of influenza like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) be closely monitored by the district and State surveillance units of Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP), particularly of children and adolescents.

I had been conducting awareness sessions on preventing heart diseases, but a friend's husband's heart attack made me doubt their effectiveness. Despite greater understanding of risk factors, heart attack patients are getting younger. My husband reminded me that doctors are meant to teach, so I changed my strategy to "catch…

Use of cattle from country free of mad cow disease means product is safe, experts say, and patients can still donate blood

3HP regimen offers better compliance, fewer adverse effects & higher completion rate than current 6-month isoniazid treatment. All household contacts of TB patients eligible for preventive therapy. 30-40% of Indian population has latent TB infection, 5-10% of which develop TB disease. India should invest in TB preventive therapy, screening &…

Australia's John Senden revealed the personal news after he missed the cut in his hometown event in Brisbane

One of the rare hereditary diseases for which there is currently no medication or treatment is called DOOR syndrome. Read further on Dynamite News: