#Diseases

EQT AB has agreed to acquire Qiagen NV for around €9.6 billion ($10.8 billion), bringing an end to years of takeover speculation involving the European molecular testing company.

Our health is personal, but health risks are not. Around the world, entire populations — both human and wildlife — are facing new health challenges, all driven by the same culprit: environmental degradation.

Biotech firms are gaining major traction in 2026 due to the global pandemic. Take a look at some of the key features of biotech stocks before investing.

As Congo’s Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak grows, public health responders are turning to old-school tactics to fight it as scientists search for new tools.

At the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has presented four distinguished leaders with the Award for Global Health, recognizing their lifetime achievements and exceptional contributions to…

The World Health Organization said during Congo’s Ebola outbreak last year that the country has a stockpile of treatments and some 2,000 doses of vaccine.

There are no confirmed cases in the United States of the Andes hantavirus outbreak that killed three people aboard a luxury cruise ship this month, US health officials said on Thursday, but 41 peop…

There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine or being monitored for symptoms.

The shipboard hantavirus outbreak is a dire warning: A mobile world makes infection prevention — in the travel industry and in hospitals — more vital than ever.

A Qatar-based professor has pioneered a non-invasive eye scan to detect neurodegenerative diseases in minutes.

The 12 will be quarantined for six weeks, the Radboudumc hospital in the city of ‌Nijmegen said, adding that the infection risk was very low and patient care continued uninterrupted.

A University of Nebraska lab has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms become severe. Now, it's ready to start testing those returning to the US after a cruise outbreak.

There’s a more accurate way of measuring who’s at risk for cholesterol-related health issues. So why don’t more doctors use it?

Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product isn't likely coming any time soon.

An American passenger returning to the US from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship has tested positive for the virus — with a second passenger also showing mild symptoms, according to au…

Martin Short opened up about his daughter’s death by suicide earlier this year for the first time in a new interview.

The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship has thrown a previously little-known virus into international headlines and mobilized health authorities from all corners of the world. Here&#8…

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, along with Spain’s Health Minister Monica Garcia and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, are to head to the island Saturday to coordinate th…

RFK Jr. is presiding over a host of innovative developments that should foster miracle cures for numerous hard-to-beat diseases.

An outbreak of a possible skin-eating disease known as scabies has swept through the Fresno County’s Fowler Unified School District.