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Move expected to help improve well-being of vulnerable workers in harsh working conditions
Air pollution may cause blood vessel damage and inflammation, even in healthy young adults, a U. S. study said Tuesday.
Scientists said Wednesday they have used a popular gene-editing tool to successfully fix a genetic mutation that causes sickle cell anemia, taking a key step toward a cure for the blood disease.
Immediate disinfection of Sham Shui Po police station conducted after report of suspected outbreak
Health authorities in southern China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday reported three deaths linked to hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD).
Australian scientists will soon begin trialing a ground-breaking malaria "breath test", which would allow doctors to quickly determine whether or not a patient is infected with the disease.
A fresh round of foot-and-mouth disease has broken out in 11 villages in the northern region of Ohangwena about 790 kilometres from Namibia's capital Windhoek.
An elderly Australian has died from the recent outbreak of Legionnaire's disease believed to have spread by a contaminated cooling tower in central Sydney.
Legislative Assembly of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) passed a bill on Wednesday to add Zika virus into the official list of notifiable infectious diseases as the mosquito-borne disease has posed global threat recently.
China's top search engine operator Baidu has come under fire for capitalizing on its disease-themed forums, as users revealed that the online communities have been flooded with quacks and advertisements for unlicensed hospitals.
South Korean health authorities declared an official end to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak, more than seven months after the first patient was found on May 20.
Banana disease confirmed in N. Queensland: Aussie authorities
Some 85 percent of cancer cases affecting Peruvian women are detected in already advanced stages, state news agency Andina reported Tuesday.
A group of medical workers from southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has arrived in neighboring Nepal to help prevent disease outbreaks in border areas following a catastrophic earthquake that claimed over 7,000 lives.
The shorter you are, the more your risk of coronary heart disease, according to a new study out Wednesday that attributed the link in part to genetics, rather than purely to nutrition or lifestyle factors.