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‘I’m being discriminated against purely based on the genes I was born with’, says a Queensland man who couldn’t update his life insurance policy

Although dogged by controversy, the firm’s coronavirus jab saved the lives of millions and helped avert humanitarian crises in nations unable to ac...

Virus is sent to high-security lab so that experts can examine the potential risks to people and livestock

Observer and Bureau of Investigative Journalism find that workers whose sponsoring company had been sanctioned were also being punished

Analysis shows rates of uptake of six-in-one vaccine lowest in the most deprived areas of England

The H5N1 virus has been devastating bird populations, and is now infecting mammals too. Is human-to-human transmission next? And are we ready for a...

A bioethicist, she pioneered bedside methods for helping patients, their families and doctors deal with anguishing life-or-death decisions in a hig...

The payment system amounted to one of the most forceful actions taken so far by agriculture officials who have raced to keep up with the spread of ...

Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Polly Toynbee in which she ponders how to put a number on old age

Government adviser says under-vaccination among pregnant women in particular is putting infants at risk

Scientists hope that C100 can be developed into an effective adjuvant for use in cancer therapies

Emergency facilities in Ennis and Nenagh closed 15 years ago