According to the WHO, the proportion of the world’s population aged over 60 years will almost double, from 12% to 22%, ...

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• Compared to antibiotics (medicines used to treat a wide range of infections or diseases caused by bacteria), NSAIDs (medicines that reduce inflammation, pain and fever) probably result in less short ...

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Whooping cough can cause symptoms including severe bouts of coughing. But babies, who are most vulnerable to the disease, may not cough at all.

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Differences were driven by improved response rates for patients with pneumonia who were treated with ceftolozane–tazobactam.

Thirty percent of respondents don't know that pertussis is the same as whooping cough or that it is vaccine-preventable.

Transmission electron micrograph of herpes simplex virus CDC/Dr Erskine Palmer Around 846 million people aged between 15 and ...