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The Canadian Cancer Society announced Wednesday that the death toll due to cancer has declined over the last two decades. More than 100,000 lives have been saved in that time span.
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The Canadian Cancer Society announced Wednesday that the death toll due to cancer has declined over the last two decades. More than 100,000 lives have been saved in that time span.
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After many years of research a group of Canadian scientists have announced a possible breakthrough for the development of a vaccine for hepatitis C.
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A new type of flu may have been found in bats. Hitherto scientists were of the general opinion that all types of flu in animals capable of contracting or carrying the flu virus had been discovered.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control, we're slowly losing our ability to fight gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted disease.
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Several districts of northern Uganda are hit by a rare nodding syndrome that causes young children and adolescents to nod violently when they eat food.
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Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, announced that the government was going to fund the research into banana wilt and cassava streak diseases.
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British researchers have recently uncovered a milestone that could possibly lead to the eradication of one of the world's most deadly diseases. This discovery could help decrease the malaria-spreading mosquito population.
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Most of the world doesn't think about toilets but in remote areas that have little water, and no sanitary systems toilets can mean life and death. In many areas of the developing world human waste enters into the water system resulting in disease.
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Taking a page from its Flu Trends offering, Google has begun using search terminology to monitor outbreaks of Dengue fever, a particularly nasty mosquito-born virus that impacts populated tropical areas worldwide.
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'My son disabled by rare incurable disease'
There has been a medical breakthrough in detecting the disease.
Pictures of the battle against neglected tropical diseases
A father with kidney disease makes a plea for more donors
BBC woman pins hope on study after her Lyme disease ordeal
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Unknown/National Library of Medicine photographic archive
A representation of the cholera epidemic of the nineteenth century. Before 1830 cholera was unknown in the western hemisphere. It became one of the most feared epidemic diseases of the nineteenth century.
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