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CEO Javier Rodriguez says it would have been like accepting food stamps when you have a stocked pantry.

Most people know that the risk factors for heart disease are high blood pressure, smoking, raised cholesterol and being overweight. However, many people who have a heart attack do not have any of these traditional risk factors.

A potentially fatal virus that is killing almost half of patients is now 'highly likely' to hit the UK alongside other illness spread by insects, that are 'marching north' because of climate change.

Brits planning to travel abroad are being warned about the risks of potentially deadly dengue fever - a disease spread by Asian tiger mosquitoes and which has been detected in the likes of Ibiza and southern France

The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000-2020, childhood vaccination led to the reduction of deaths in children under 5 by 50% to 5.4 million deaths per year. Vaccination currently averts…

There are now 3.3m people claiming PIP with thousands more on Adult Disability Payment.

IBD, which causes chronic inflammation of the intestines, includes Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and unclassified inflammatory bowel disease.

New research finds that the genetic origins of Dupuytren's contracture were inherited from Neanderthals.

My name is Antonio and I suffer from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA, for friends). My life expectancy was only a few years when I was born, almost half a century ago. And all because I “got” a rare, neurodegenerative disease, which is among the genetic diseases with the highest associated…