Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ...

Delayed diagnosis is a serious issue in modern medicine. Explore conditions that are frequently diagnosed too late or ...

Turns out that more men need to bone up on their bone density. Some 2 million US men suffer from osteoporosis, a slow-developing “silent disease” that makes bones weak and brittle, according to the ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

So then you may develop osteoporosis in your 50s rather than your 70s or 80s.” Osteoporosis is a “silent” disease because ...

The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

Hiding deep inside the body, a dangerous type of fat wraps itself around vital organs such as the kidneys, liver and heart — ...

Tick bites are are on the rise this and they can carry some nasty illnesses. Which are most common depends where you live.

Summer is the peak season for these five ailments that range from minor to deadly. The best way to deal with them is to avoid ...

Ticks are spreading globally and bringing familiar conditions such as Lyme disease with them, as well as totally new ones.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, the first step in an anticipated ...