Normally we don’t think of cancer as an infectious disease – but what if we told you there is a contagious cancer, thousands of years old?...
Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animal. Over 1 million deaths per year are attributed to mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, Zika and chikungunya...
The federal government has released a new A$11 million ad campaign urging Australians to “take on winter” by getting COVID boosters and influenza vaccines, as well...
June 30, 2022 This Canada Day marks the 60th anniversary of the birth of medicare in Saskatchewan. And by the end of this year, we could...
Every year, almost 1 in 6 Americans gets a foodborne illness, and about 3,000 people die from it, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, access to birth control has taken on new urgency. By moving the...
Canada’s top doctor says negotiations are underway for more vaccine to curtail monkeypox as confirmed cases reached 278 nationwide. Chief public health officer Theresa Tam says...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea An online group coaching program that normalizes vulnerability and emotional processing can...
The reddish pink rash spreads quickly. jlcampbell104/Flickr Your skin usually deflects any bacteria it encounters, protecting you from all sorts of infections. However, when you get...
About 2 million people in the UK currently have long COVID, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics. In the UK, long...