Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Disease

Girl, 16, dies from meningitis after spending up to 16 hours on hospital trolley

Aoife Johnston, 16, died of meningitis after waiting 16 hours on a trolley at University Hospital Limerick with the Department of Public Health Mid-West launching an investigation

Daily Mirror

Dad with rare penis cancer could be having his last Christmas with his family

Doctors initially told Gavin Brooks he had thrush

Manchester Evening News

Taoiseach wants swift investigation to find if Clare teen's death from meningitis was preventable

Aoife Johnston died last week after being left on a trolley for 16 hours.

Irish Mirror

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Hunger, disease explode in Africa and are likely to get worse

Climate-driven weather disasters across a dozen African countries are threatening the physical and mental development of an entire generation, and their plight is expected to get even worse next year, the head of the WHO Foundation warned.

Tribune News Service

'Poetry helped me grieve my sister - now I use it to give £5000 to families at Christmas'

Adesayo Talabi, 25, has been donating thousands to families who suffer with sickle cell anaemia from her ‘own pocket’ after her two sisters died of the disease as children

Daily Mirror

George Cohen dies aged 83 – what became of England’s 1966 World Cup winners?

The class of 1966 still remain the only England men’s side to lift a trophy at a major tournament.

The Independent UK

Breakthrough discovery could see liver cancer detected by urine test

Disease currently requires surgery, an ultrasound or blood tests for diagnosis

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Glasgow scientists take steps towards world-first urine test for cancer

GLASGOW based scientists have discovered a metabolite never found in mammals before which could pave the way for a urine test to detect a type of…

The National (Scotland)

14 symptoms of pancreatic cancer you’re most likely to ignore

A pancreatic Cancer UK specialist nurse outlines easy-to-ignore signs of the disease

The Independent UK

Universal Credit claimants with any of these health conditions could be due up to £156 extra every week

If you need help due to an illness, disability or mental health condition you may qualify for extra financial support from DWP.

Daily Record

Victorians warned as streptococcal on rise

Victoria's chief health officer has issued a health warning on invasive group A streptococcal disease following an increase in cases

AAP

China's stretched health system braces for peak in COVID infections

China is expecting a peak in COVID-19 infections within a week, a health official said, with authorities predicting extra strain on the country's health system even as they downplay the disease's severity and continue to report no new deaths.

Reuters

In China, people are learning to live with COVID

Only a few weeks ago COVID-19 positive Chinese teacher Yang Zengdong and her husband would probably have ended up in a makeshift quarantine centre with patchy heating, sparse bedding and overwhelmed toilets, but today they are isolating at home.

Reuters

Scientists take first steps towards urine tests for cancer

Liver cancers currently have to be detected by surgery, ultrasound scans or blood tests

Wales Online

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Scientists take first steps towards urine test for cancer

The disease currently requires surgery, an ultrasound or blood tests for diagnosis.

The Conversation

Repeated head injury may cause degenerative brain disease for people who play sport – juniors and amateurs included

Where there are players and a game to be won, you can expect some “rough and tumble” on the sporting field. But when do the bumps become a problem for players? And what can we do to protect them from traumatic brain injury?

Liverpool Echo

Mum dies after Crohn's disease masked stage four bowel cancer

Emma's battle has inspired Sarah and Nicola to challenge themselves in her memory

Salon

2022: The year the pandemic dragged on

Vaccines and boosters weren't enough to protect us from what mutated into the most infectious virus ever known

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Record

Renfrewshire man with rare disease tries to live each day as if it is Christmas

Michael Conway is seeking to raise awareness of Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) this festive period.

The Conversation

Chronic pain: An invisible disease whose sufferers are unfairly stigmatized

Imagine living with pain every day for months, or even years — pain that is so intrusive, it disrupts every day of your life.

Fortune

A small Chilean rat could be the next step forward for Alzheimer’s research

The Octodon degus, a small Chilean rodent, may have a lot to teach us about Alzheimer’s in humans.

Irish Mirror

Close contacts being informed after teenage girl dies from meningitis in Co Clare

Tributes have been paid to the 16-year-old after her tragic death

Daily Mirror

Diphtheria cases confirmed among asylum seekers at UK hotel - with some needing treatment

The Home Office confirmed a "small number" of diphtheria cases among asylum seekers at an unnamed hotel in the Humber region, with some people needing medical treatment

Daily Mirror

Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden opens up on being body-shamed by a pro dancer

Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden, 32, says that she was once called fat by a professional dancer. Amy, who suffers from Crohn's disease explains how her medication can make her put on weight

Los Angeles Times

Making a salad might be getting more expensive. Could climate change be to blame?

In his nearly four decades of growing lettuce, spinach, kale and other leafy greens in California and Arizona, Tony Alameda has seen plenty of bad years. But lately, he said, there have been many more “noticeably bad” years in a row.

1 … 437 438 439 440

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

UK Health Security Agency

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.