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Former England spinner Shaun Udal enjoyed an impressive 20-year career but is now battling Parkinson's disease amid period of huge sorrow

The widespread immunisation campaign comes after four cases of polio were found in the country less than a decade after the World Health Organization declared it free of the deadly virus.

Australia is experiencing the fourth wave of COVID for 2022, with the number of people hospitalised with COVID trending to levels seen in winter and ongoing high levels of deaths. New COVID waves are expected to occur every three to four months for some time.

This South Australian woman has less than two months to raise more than $90,000 to receive a bone-marrow stem cell transplant she hopes will halt the advancement of the disease.

Most of us know we should eat different colored fruits and vegetables, but do you know why?

Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while ‘monkeypox’ is phased out, the UN health agency says.

The World Health Organization is renaming monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist.

Facilities similar to those used during Covid pandemic will house people showing signs of contagious disease

Shift work means businesses and organisations can be productive for 24-hours a day, but workers are more at risk of disease and death.