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It's called noma and is a disease of poverty, striking mainly children. Most patients die. Survivors are badly disfigured. Now there's a campaign to add it to the list of neglected tropical diseases

Here’s what we know so far about the latest variant to raise eyebrows—and the first to do so in several months.

Penny Mordaunt accused Andrew Bridgen of promoting ‘outrageous conspiracy theories’.

Equatorial Guinea said it has recorded 13 cases of Marburg disease since February, after the World Health Organization urged the country to officially report new cases.

On 17 March 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that health officials in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus. The WHO said the Burundian government had declared the detection of the virus a national public health emergency after three cases were confirmed.…

Colorectal cancer originates in the colon or rectum, the terminal end of the digestive tract. The secular trend of colorectal cancer has been increasing in developing countries globally, including Thailand. It is the third most common cancer worldwide. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), there are about 1.9 million…

Government should act to force bakers to reduce excessive salt content for public health, says Action on Salt

Guidance says strong population-level immunity due to infection and vaccination means boosters have less impact

A panel of advisers to the WHO will review requests for drugs to be included next month