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Every year, more than 10,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Unfortunately, for most of those people, the disease is diagnosed too late to be cured. Less than 10% of people live five years following a diagnosis.

Dr Trish Scanlan, who has lived in the East African country for more than 15 years, has significantly improved survival rates for kids with cancer while also battling the disease herself but declared “more work needs to be done”.

Bad breath in dogs can be a sign of an underlying health issue. Here's everything you need to know about the most common causes and how to treat it...

Rate of diagnoses is rising faster in younger age group than in over-40s, charity warns

Lebanon took delivery on Monday of its first vaccines to combat a worsening cholera outbreak - together with sharply worded criticism of the crisis-hit country's crumbling public health infrastructure from donor nation France. By Sunday, cases of cholera - a disease typically spread through contaminated water, food or sewage -…

Colorado, Florida, and Idaho will not participate in a key part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior surveys that reaches more than 80,000 students. Over the past 30 years, the state-level surveys, conducted anonymously during each odd-numbered year, have helped elucidate the mental health stressors…

A University of Queensland-led study finds COVID-19 activates a similar inflammatory response to Parkinson's disease, but scientists warn it's too early to cause alarm with more work needed into how the virus affects the brain.

Comedian Jarred Christmas tells Adrian Monti how he’s learned to live with the disease that causes dizziness, hearing loss and nausea

The benefit is designed to help people forced to pay extra due to a health condition or illness

The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tested positive again for COVID-19

The UK has been battling the largest ever outbreak of avian influenza, with more than 200 cases confirmed since late October 2021