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Brisk walking for 30 minutes a day can have big positive impact on unfit people, researchers say

"Butterfly disease" is a potentially fatal, inherited disorder that causes patients to blister very easily.

Every winter, GP surgeries and hospitals see an increase in visits from people with respiratory conditions.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gone so far as to suggest that the Food and Drug Administration should eliminate its nutrition operations.

Diabetes develops when the body fails to manage its blood glucose levels. One form of diabetes causes the body to not produce insulin at all. Called Type 1 diabetes, or T1D, this autoimmune disease happens when the body’s defense system mistakes its own insulin-producing cells as foreign and kills them.…

Pakistan struggles with 50 polio cases this year, facing challenges in eradicating the disease. Urgent efforts needed to ensure healthcare worker safety.

Steph Houghton has written a memoir of her career in which she talks about husband Stephen Darby's battle with motor neurone disease.

Officials say Pakistan has detected one more polio case in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, raising the country’s tally of the infectious disease to 50 cases this year

The technology could help personalise treatment and prevent hospitalisations, academics said.