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Ivory Coast announced a cholera outbreak on Thursday, confirming seven deaths from the disease. Daniel Kouadio Ekra, head of the National Institute of Public Hygiene, confirmed the epidemic, saying ...

A Canadian infant who was born prematurely and had measles has died, officials said Thursday without confirming a cause of ...

Can a small fish help identify possible treatments for an ultra-rare inherited disease found in an Alabama boy? The genetic ...

In a new report published in JAMA Cardiology, health policy experts at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body's internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need ...

A quarter of deaths in the UK are caused by heart disease, the equivalent of one person every three seconds. Improving ...

Nearly one-third of people who adopted and adhered to a healthy diet did not lose any weight, but still reaped many health ...

Opioid overdoses are a major public health issue in the U.S., killing tens of thousands of people every year. The medicine ...

Imagine diagnosing cancer not with a supercomputer but on an ordinary laptop instead. Sounds like science fiction? Thanks to ...