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A measles outbreak has killed a second child in the southwestern United States, authorities said Sunday, with almost 650 people now infected as the highly contagious disease spreads.

Gary Neville has not held back with his assessment of the Manchester derby

The child is the second confirmed measles death in the the latest outbreak – and the second in the past decade

About 500 Texans, mostly young unvaccinated children, have contracted the disease. The U.S. health secretary was in West Texas to visit the family.

The disease poses no danger to humans and primarily affects cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals like swine, sheep and goats.

Two prominent scientists who study multiple sclerosis — Dr. Alberto Ascherio and Dr. Stephen Hauser — are co-winners of a 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

Obesity rates in France have doubled since the late 1990s, affecting around 10 million people. Behind those numbers are lives shaped not just by health concerns, but by judgment, exclusion, and silence. Now, a growing push to recognise obesity as a disease is challenging both medical norms and deep-rooted stigma.

Health authorities in France's Reunion Island on Friday launched an emergency plan to boost staff in hospitals to deal with the spread of the chikungunya virus. This comes as the Indian Ocean territory reported over 6,000 new cases of the mosquito-borne disease last month.

After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate number of them black. Now, in a bid to save…

Kenan Thompson has opened up about his experience of battling gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, according to new research.