New World Health Organization data show that an estimated six million deaths are caused each year in the Americas by non-communicable diseases (NCDs), 43% more than at the turn of the century. Most of ...

Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ...

Canada must address the growing crisis of communicable diseases that has occurred in tandem with a rise in misinformation that threatens our health systems, argue authors in an editorial in CMAJ.

People sometimes refer to communicable diseases as “infectious” or “transmissible” diseases. Pathogens, including bacteria , viruses , fungi , and protozoa, cause communicable diseases.

Disease surveillance also largely depends on doctors and other public health workers reporting unusual incidents and confirmed cases of communicable diseases to the authorities. This was the case with ...