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As vampire bats move north and chronic wasting disease (CWD) spreads south, a disease researcher is worried it’s only a matter of time before the two find each other, if they haven’t already

Former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, his son Hunter Biden said in an interview broadcast Friday, months after the former president completed a round of radiation therapy for the disease

Five people have been killed after being infected with a flesh-eating bacteria in coastal waters off Louisiana, state officials said. 

Common painkillers including ibuprofen could increase the chance of getting sunburn, Britain’s health watchdog has warned as the country braces for its fifth blistering heatwaveof the summer

Fox News contributor Karl Rove and former Biden 2020 campaign surrogate Kevin Walling discuss former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis and allegations of a cover-up by the Democratic Party on ‘The Story.’

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking an emerging fungus—Candida auris (C. Auris)—that can cause infections and illnesses, which can spread easily among sick patients in healthcare facilities. 

Two people are dead, hundreds have been hospitalized, and public health officials are scrambling to trace record-setting cyclosporiasis outbreaks that have now spread to at least 47 states. Local health officials who are swamped by contact-tracing work are particularly frustrated by what they describe as a “slow,” “vague,” and even “scary” response from federal health agencies

Louisiana health officials are urging residents to take precautions against a flesh-eating bacterial infection following the deaths of five people this year

Most hikers and campers are aware of the potential risk of getting Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, or similar diseases from a tick bite. But a May 2026 study published by Stony Brook University doctors and researchers in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH) suggested that a rare and potentially fatal…

Sri Lanka – Prior to the 1940s and the Green Revolution, Sri Lankan paddy farmers cultivated traditional rice, locally known as purana haal. These rice cultivars were resilient and known to possess various nutritional and medicinal properties yet were soon replaced by new improved rice varieties to obtain better quality and bigger yields