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England Breaks Its Hottest June Day on Record as NHS Ambulances Hit Historic Demand

TL;DR, July 3 -- England recorded its hottest-ever June temperature, 36.1degC in Gosport, Hampshire, on June 24, 2026, as the UK Health Security Agency extended a rare Red heat-health alert until 11pm... Read More


Pentagon Reverses Hegseth's Flu Mandate as Lackland Outbreak Kills Recruit, Sickens 275

TL;DR, July 3 -- The Pentagon on Wednesday ordered all military branches to again mandate flu vaccinations for recruits, reversing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's April decision to make the shots opt... Read More


A Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak That Killed Three Is Over, the W.H.O. Says

GENEVA, July 3 -- For the final contact traced to the cruise ship that became the site of the world's first maritime hantavirus emergency, the news arrived Wednesday: a negative test, a completed quar... Read More


Scientists Launch the First Drug Trial Against Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak

BUNIA, July 3 -- The treatment center in Ituri province that enrolled its first patient on Thursday is the only site in the world currently testing experimental drugs against the Bundibugyo strain of ... Read More


Sea Anemones Suppress Their Own Immune Response to Fight Off Viruses, a Study Finds

JERUSALEM, July 3 -- For decades, the working model of antiviral immunity in animals came down to a simple equation: viral invasion triggers proteins that switch on the immune system, which then clear... Read More


Study Reveals Why Half of Kidney Transplant Candidates Never Make It to the Waitlist

New Delhi, July 3 -- For the roughly 100,000 Americans who begin dialysis each year, a kidney transplant is more than a better treatment. It is the only one that can fully reverse what kidney failure ... Read More


Oxford Researchers Built a Calculator That Could Persuade Millions to Try Statins

The tool, July 3 -- For years, the fear of muscle pain and weakness has kept millions of patients from taking statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs that cardiologists consider among the most effecti... Read More


For Most People Who Avoid Statins Over Muscle Fears, the Risk Is Smaller Than They Think

LONDON, July 3 -- The fear is familiar to almost any cardiologist. A patient with elevated cholesterol or a recent cardiac event gets a statin prescription and, weeks later, calls to say they have sto... Read More


FDA Scientists Warn Against Peptides Kennedy Backs as He Reshapes the Advisory Panel

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- BPC-157, a peptide sold online as a cure for tendon injuries and inflammatory bowel conditions, has never been tested in a rigorous human clinical trial. Health Secretary Robert ... Read More


WHO Launches First Clinical Trial for Bundibugyo Virus as Congo Deaths Pass 440

New Delhi, July 2 -- At least one patient dies each day at the Rwampara treatment center in Ituri province, where the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has concentrated its worst effects since the outbreak w... Read More