disease

My family recently attended a gathering with other retinoblastoma survivors, from toddlers to adults who had conquered the disease decades earlier.

While most people survive a measles infection, the disease kills more than 100,000 children every year worldwide, leaves an additional 60,000 children blind and thousands more with permanent brain damage.

In the period after the Civil War, many states and cities founded public health departments with an objective to prevent disease, especially because medical treatments were so ineffective.

Palliative care nurse Grace Larder says she provides many types of support to her patients, some of whom have motor neurone disease, Parkinson's and liver failure.

According to Cancer Research UK, stage two breast cancer is an early form of the condition and can mean the disease is either in the breast or in the nearby lymph nodes, or both.