New Delhi, July 2 -- new medicines, previously too expensive or unavailable on the health service, finally within reach. Samuel Cross read the same deal differently. The University of Liverpool resear... Read More
New Delhi, July 2 -- KINSHASA - The virus has not been slowing. It has been spreading. Ebola reached a fourth province in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week, moving into Haut-Uele, a landlock... Read More
TORONTO, July 2 -- Last week, a colorectal surgeon at Toronto's University Health Network diagnosed cancer in three patients who, by every assumption that has shaped screening policy for a generation,... Read More
CANBERRA, July 2 -- In an Australian psychedelic-assisted therapy session, the person most responsible for what happens if a patient's mind goes somewhere dangerous can now walk out partway through. T... Read More
HAMILTON, July 2 -- Glioblastoma does not just grow. It recruits. The most aggressive brain cancer known to medicine reaches into a patient's own immune system and turns the cells meant to fight infec... Read More
BRANTFORD, July 2 -- The bat left no mark. That is the detail Dr. Brian Hummel keeps returning to when he describes the death of an 11-year-old boy who woke up one night in the summer of 2024 at a fam... Read More
MINNEAPOLIS, July 2 -- A cell built entirely from non-living chemistry has, for the first time, done what only living things were thought capable of doing: it grew, copied its own genetic material, an... Read More
BETHESDA, July 2 -- Somewhere inside a single federal database now sits the whole genetic code and years of medical history belonging to more than 747,000 Americans, nearly half of them from communiti... Read More
NAIROBI, July 2 -- The child was a year and a half old, living in Kyegegwa district in western Uganda, and by the time laboratory results confirmed what had killed her, she was already gone. Health of... Read More
New Delhi, June 29 -- DHAKA - More than half the children killed by measles in Bangladesh this year were not yet old enough to have finished their vaccination schedule. That detail - 66 percent of ca... Read More