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European investigators have confiscated over 13 million doses of illegal medicines with a total value of around 165 million euros with a large-scale international action. Related…

The German government wants to prohibit controversial therapies that would 'cure' people of homosexuality. 'Homosexuality is not a disease and therefore there is no therapy against it...

A record number of cases of measles have been recorded in Europe last year, partly due to an increase in parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, according to the World...

A mother and four children were beaten to death in India with an ax and sticks because the woman would be a witch. The police held six men after the murder.

A mother and daughter have made a special discovery on a beach in the Australian Broome. They post photos of 'a creature' on social media, after which there was heated speculation about the nature...

In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the dreaded deadly disease ebola seizes around him. At least five hundred people show signs of illness. In 452 cases, the disease is...

The unmanned space freight ship Cygnus arrives at the International Space Station (ISS) at 11.20 am on Monday. The German ISS commander Alexander Gerst and the American astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor will take the unmanned capsule with the help of a robotic arm.

The former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk is hospitalized. The 82-year-old winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has a lung disease, reports his FW de Klerk Foundation.

Sports and exercise are important for a healthy lifestyle, which is nothing new under the sun. American researchers have recently established through a long-term study that not moving is even worse for health than smoking and having diabetes or heart disease.

In the northeast of the Congo, five new cases of Ebola infection were registered one day. That has been confirmed by the Ministry of Health. According to the authorities, the increase is not only due to the constant danger that rebel groups form in the Beni region. The aid workers who try to stop the dreaded disease also receive insufficient cooperation from the population.

At least 23 protected Persian lions have died in India in the last three weeks, including a rare disease. The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has called on the government to take immediate action to protect the species.

The Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte is very concerned about his health. He takes into account that he has cancer or a serious illness and does not intend to stay on as head of state if that turns out to be the case.

The Belgian cancer specialist Martine Piccart will receive the Bob Pinedo Cancer Care Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) this year. Piccart (65) receives the biennial prize for her 'leading scientific contributions to the treatment of breast cancer and to clinical cancer research.'

Co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen is seriously ill again. He is being treated for lymphoma, he said on Monday.

A 20-year-old woman from the English city of Manchester ended up in hospital after she ventured into an extremely tough noodle challenge. One day after she threw back the 'Samyang hot chicken noodle soup', she had blood on her stool. In the hospital, the young woman appeared to have Crohn's disease.

The man who is now known at home and abroad that he was deflowered at the age of 45 after doctors had created a penis for him, has become seriously ill. A week after he could finally have sex with his wife for the first time, she found him unconscious on the floor.

The American authorities have again raised alarms about disease symptoms on board international flights. Passengers and crew members on board two aircraft must undergo a medical check, says a Philadelphia International Airport spokesperson. It involves about 250 people.

A child with symptoms of cholera disease has been admitted to a hospital in France after arriving with a plane from Algeria. The other approximately 150 passengers of the plane, which flew from Oran to Perpignan, were not allowed to leave the aircraft first. But they are still being sent off the plane for research, French internet media reports.

At least fifteen men around the 9/11 attack near the World Trade Center have contracted breast cancer.

A bizarre sexually transmitted disease (STI) is circulating in the United Kingdom: a disease that causes the genitals to erupt and rot. An anonymous British girl between the ages of 15 and 25 has been diagnosed in the past year, just like two British men.

On the beaches of Ibiza, dozens of dead walls have been washed up in recent days. Conservationists are faced with a mystery.

A 24-year-old British who spent many years each weekend on about 15 balloons of nitrous oxide, had to pay for her addiction. The mother of a toddler now suffers from the disease of Lichtheim, which almost completely paralyzed.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the total number of people who died as a result of Ebola disease has risen to probably 33 in two weeks, according to the Ministry of Health of the African country.

The Department of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo officially announced on Tuesday that the outbreak of Ebola is now over. No new cases of infection have been reported in the past 42 days. The dreaded viral disease has cost 33 lives as far as could be ascertained.

Enthusiastic, lively, sporty. Little by little the information of the Thai grandsons who were rescued in the last few days drips inside. Three boys were celebrating their birthday, another had asthma, yet another promised to help his parents 'better in future'. Everyone has his own story.

Last month, a Boeing from Transavia Airlines had to make an emergency landing because passengers got sick because of the stench of one of the travelers. Now the reason is known and it has absolutely nothing to do with poor hygiene. The man, the Russian composer and guitarist Andrey Suchilin, suffered from a rare infectious disease and has since died.

The mother of a suddenly deceased girl is furious at Ticketmaster.

A rabid red lynx who attacked a 46-year-old woman in Hart County, Georgia, must have paid for it with death. The firm Dede Phillips strangled the aggressive animal with her bare hands.

The outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a 'critical stage' according to the Red Cross. 'The spread of the disease has slowed down in recent weeks, but that does not mean that the outbreak has completely stopped,' the aid organization reports.

The fight against the further spread of the dreaded Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo is proceeding according to plan. That says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). 'It is stabilizing. We are optimistic, cautiously optimistic. '