Australian football legend Neale Daniher dies at 65
Neale Daniher, a revered figure in Australian football and a national advocate for medical research, died on Monday at the age of 65 after a long battle with motor neurone disease.
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Neale Daniher, a revered figure in Australian football and a national advocate for medical research, died on Monday at the age of 65 after a long battle with motor neurone disease.
In the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, Iryna Nakonechna is rebuilding her life after a Russian missile attack last year took her left leg and killed her husband.
A severe Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been declared a global health emergency, with aid groups and frontline responders expressing grave concern over the potential for the virus to spread ra...
Actress Anne Hathaway has revealed she lived with a significant vision impairment for a decade before undergoing corrective surgery.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was repeatedly bitten while handling two wild snakes at a private residence on Tuesday, an incident captured in a video he posted to social media.
China has launched the world's first experiment involving artificial human embryos into space, aiming to study the effects of the space environment on early human development.
Eli Lilly announced Tuesday it has agreed to acquire three biotechnology companies focused on vaccine development in deals collectively worth up to approximately $3.83 billion.
As Africa marks the 63rd anniversary of its continental unity on May 25, 2026, the occasion is framed by a critical assessment of progress against long-standing ambitions for integration, sovereignty, and development.
Rescue teams are engaged in a delicate and challenging operation to reach seven villagers who have been trapped inside a flooded cave in central Laos for nearly a week.
In a landmark demonstration of cross-border telemedicine, a surgeon in Wuhan, China, has successfully performed a robotic surgery on a patient located over 4,000 kilometers away in Hyderabad, India.
A 28-year-old woman who recently traveled from Uganda has tested negative for Ebola after being placed in isolation at a hospital in Bengaluru, India, health officials confirmed.
At Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, a golden retriever mix named Hadley recently helped a five-year-old boy stand up from his wheelchair to play fetch, marking his first time outside in over a month.
Pope Leo XIV visited the southern Italian city of Acerra on Saturday, meeting with families who have lost loved ones to illnesses linked to decades of illegal toxic waste dumping in the region known as the "Land of Fires...
South African scientists identified a rare rodent-borne virus as the cause of a deadly outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean last month, following a rapid international investigation launched on a national ...
Ugandan officials are urging global health authorities to clarify that the epicenter of a dangerous Ebola outbreak is in eastern Congo, not Uganda, as the virus strain involved bears the name of a picturesque Ugandan dis...
Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide were living with a mental disorder in 2023, a figure that has nearly doubled since 1990, according to a major new study published in The Lancet.
Canada's chief public health officer is scheduled to provide an update on two international virus outbreaks that have prompted increased vigilance from domestic health authorities. Dr.
Three young children were killed and four others wounded in northwest Syria on Thursday when a land mine exploded as they played near a well.
The number of people diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, has reached a record high in the United Kingdom, according to new data from Cancer Research UK.
An Air France flight from Paris to Detroit was diverted to Montreal on May 20 after U.S. authorities determined a passenger had boarded in violation of new entry restrictions related to an Ebola outbreak.