Tuberculosis – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – could be dormant in your system for years before you realize you ...
October is breast cancer awareness month, and ongoing campaigns have prompted women to be tested early. But sometimes, a lump is not cancer.
The fight against malaria has stalled after two decades of progress, with climate change and population growth among factors ...
With regard to respiratory tuberculosis-related deaths from 1999 to 2020, common populations included older adults, males and ...
A urinary tract infection, or UTI, means that bacteria have entered the urinary system and spread somewhere from the urethra to the bladder or even up to the kidneys. Symptoms usually include pain ...
An elderly woman's x-ray revealed the bizarre treatment she received decades earlier to treat the world's deadliest disease, which is on the rise in the US and kills over 1million people worldwide.
The meningococcal meningitis fatality rate is around 15% for teens and young adults, Marshall explained. And those who survive can lose limbs due to coagulation that cuts off the blood supply and can ...
A Hospital consultant was apologetic to the relatives of a woman who died from a toxic side-effect of a drug prescribed to ...
What is clear is that the Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine and the vaccine preservative thimerosal are not causal factors.
Delayed treatment of lung or bone tuberculosis can silently spread to the spine, causing chronic pain or paralysis, cautions ...
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the deadly drug-resistant bacteria NDM-CRE found a 70% ...
Humans are living 20 years longer since 1950, but rising death rates among adolescents and global health inequities pose new ...