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A US-UK Pharmaceutical Deal Could Cause 229,000 Extra Deaths in Britain, BMJ Study Warns

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


Ebola Spreads to Fourth Province in Congo as U.N. Warns of $3.6 Billion Economic Hit

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


Ontario Lowers Colon Cancer Screening Age to 45 as Younger Patients Keep Showing Up

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


Australia Just Let Psychiatrists Leave the Room During Psychedelic Therapy

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


Glioblastoma Recruits the Immune System to Protect Itself. A New Therapy Targets That Betrayal

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


A Bat Left No Mark on This 11-Year-Old. Rabies Killed Him Anyway

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


Scientists Build the First Synthetic Cell That Can Grow, Divide and Compete

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


NIH's Largest Health Database Arrives as Trump Squeezes Science Funding

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


Marburg Virus Detected in Uganda Amid Record Ebola Outbreak

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


How Yunus Made Measles a Pandemic in Bangladesh

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