A hospital in Japan has performed surgery using sheets of commercially available heart muscle stem cells, in what surgeon Yoshiki Sawa described as the first clinical use of the regenerative therapy since it received conditional government approval in March.…
A Doctors Without Borders worker who was helping fight the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for the virus and is being evacuated to the Netherlands for treatment, the medical charity said Thursday. Doctors Without Borders…
El Nino poses a significant threat to global health as the world braces for a cycle forecast to be the most intense on record, United Nations and World Health Organization officials warned Tuesday. The natural weather pattern is tied to warming surface temper…
Fifteen mobile boat clinics are bringing doctors, medicines, vaccines and basic laboratory services to remote river islands in India's northeastern Assam state, where access to healthcare is limited. Hundreds of thousands of people live on Assam's temporary r…
US President Donald Trump's White House has discussed creating an outside commission that could veto grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health, US media including Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post reported, citing anonymous source…
Health workers in Ebola-hit areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo began a test vaccination programme Saturday to see whether Ervebo, a vaccine developed for the Zaire strain of Ebola, can protect against the Bundibugyo strain driving the current outbreak.…
A malaria outbreak linked to Frankfurt Airport has now caused three deaths among eight infections since late August, local health officials said Thursday. Frankfurt's health department said one person died and another was infected in the latest cases. Both li…
Fiji has declared a national HIV emergency after authorities said new diagnoses rose to 2,016 cases in 2025, 16 times the level recorded in 2019. Health Minister Atonio Lalabalavu told reporters on September 16 that the declaration recognised the seriousness…
Susie Wiles, US President Donald Trump's chief of staff, said Wednesday that she is cancer free nearly six months after revealing she had breast cancer. Wiles, 69, said in a post on X that after a medical appointment this week, “my pathology results came back…
International aid cuts have already affected the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Wednesday. Peter Sands, the fund's executive director, said countries had softened the imme…
Pennsylvania health authorities have confirmed a fourth measles-related death in the United States as the country faces its largest outbreak of the vaccine-preventable disease in decades. State health officials said all four people who died were unvaccinated.…
EU-funded tests found that 19 of 65 professional safety helmets, or 29 percent, failed key requirements, the European Commission DG GROW said. The campaign tested helmets for shock absorption, resistance to penetration, flame resistance, chinstrap anchorage a…
Brazilian Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire has gastrointestinal cancer and is receiving palliative care at home, the Raoni Institute said Monday. The institute said medical teams recommended palliative care because of the 94-year-old's age, clinical conditio…
New tuberculosis vaccines expected to become available from 2029 could avert up to 7.3 million deaths from 2030 through 2050, Gavi said Monday, if enough affordable supply reaches countries with the highest disease burden. The global vaccine alliance said new…
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still spreading in North Kivu despite improvements in some other areas, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. WHO official Olivier le Polain said authorities had recorded 7,200 cases in seven pro…
The European Food Safety Authority said Thursday it found no safety concerns linked to current reported uses and levels of a sweetener compound made from acesu…
Denmark's former sovereign Queen Margrethe left hospital on Thursday after four days of treatment for a haematoma and dehydration, the Royal House of Denmark said. “Her Majesty Queen Margrethe was discharged from Rigshospitalet late this morning and is now ba…
The European Commission's DG GROW issued consumer safety advice on child bicycle seats in a Sept. 2 press release, linking the guidance to a recent EU product testing campaign. The release referred consumers to Safety Gate recall information, follow-up testin…
European Union product-safety tests found restricted chemicals in some children’s waterproof clothing and excessive heavy metals in some fashion jewellery, the European Commission DG GROW said. The Commission said national market surveillance authorities test…
EU helmet tests found only 30% of 100 sampled sports helmets were fully compliant with safety and formal requirements, the European Commission said on Thursday. The EU-funded campaign checked 70 helmets for cyclists, skateboarders and roller-skaters and 30 fo…
Emmanuel Mignot of France and Masashi Yanagisawa of Japan won an Albert Lasker prize on Wednesday for research that helped uncover the cause of narcolepsy. Their work in the 1990s pointed to orexin, also called hypocretin, a chemical made in the hypothalamus…
Bangladesh's measles outbreak has killed 1,002 children and infected 187,484 since March, the Directorate General of Health Services said Wednesday, making it the country's deadliest outbreak in decades. DGHS spokesman Zahid Raihan said authorities had vaccin…
Thai authorities are investigating a Bangkok clinic after a Nigerian-born British businessman and influencer died following a penis enlargement procedure. A London coroner ruled last month that Igho Ubiribo, 43, died in Bangkok on March 6 because of a hyaluro…
Spanish women's football internationals will be offered reproductive health services including egg freezing and in vitro fertilisation under an agreement annou…
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it needs 5,000 more health workers to respond to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has spre…
More than 130 doctors fell ill after eating food contaminated with salmonella in a cafeteria at Mexico City's Eduardo Liceaga Hospital, authorities and affecte…
Second-hand smoke exposure contributed to nearly 1.7 million premature deaths worldwide in 2023, according to a study published in The Lancet. The study estim…
An Indian startup is using AI to analyse how trained dogs react to human breath samples, part of an experimental effort to develop a non-invasive cancer screening test. Bengaluru-based Dognosis fits dogs with sensor-packed helmets and harnesses that record br…
A British family plans to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to raise money for Suicide & Co and encourage more open discussion of suicide after the death of husband and father Robert Ash. Charlotte Ash and her children Camilla, Henry and James are preparing…
North Macedonia has confirmed its eighth death from West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne infection that has been reported in several European countries this year. The country has confirmed 58 cases and eight deaths. All of the fatalities were men aged between 62…
Indian filmmaker Shaunak Sen says his next documentary grew out of his own cancer diagnosis, using filmmaking as a way to confront treatment and recovery while…
Carlos Alberto Parreira, the former Brazil coach who led the national team to the 1994 World Cup title, has been cleared to leave Samaritano Barrale Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, the hospital said Saturday. The hospital said the 83-year-old had shown a positive…
Bangladesh's measles outbreak has killed at least 986 children since March and pushed suspected and confirmed cases above 180,000, the health ministry says, as hospitals treat many sick babies and young children. The country has started a mass vaccination dri…
Psilocybin prevented the development of chemotherapy-related nerve pain in rats, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The research tested the hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms in rats and certain human tissues as scie…
New Zealand has approved the use of pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to treat severe post-traumatic stress disorder, with two psychiatrists allowed to prescribe it un…
At least 725 pupils and 25 teachers in Rembang, on Indonesia’s Java Island, fell ill after eating a free school lunch, their principal said Thursday. Principa…
Dutch health authorities said nine cases of mosquito-transmitted West Nile virus had been registered in recent weeks, after the Netherlands earlier reported on…
Belgium recorded 2,935 excess deaths during successive heatwaves since June, the national public health institute Sciensano said on September 3. Sciensano sai…
Germany recorded a record 16,300 heat-related deaths from June 1 to August 23 during Europe's severe summer heatwaves, official data from the Robert Koch Insti…
Scott McTominay said he was feeling fine after Napoli said he needed surgery for a mild benign heart rhythm issue. The Scotland international spoke to reporte…
A coalition of US medical groups issued vaccine guidance for seasonal respiratory viruses on Wednesday, aiming to give advice while federal recommendations are…
Denmark will stop offering fertility treatment in the public healthcare system to men over 55 from January, authorities said Tuesday, citing health risks for c…
Finland has introduced new measures to combat African swine fever after cases in the country continued to rise since July, the government said Tuesday. Africa…
Nigeria's government says it wants to decriminalise attempted suicide, arguing that punishment deters people in crisis from seeking help. Health minister Mohammed Ali Pate said the government would send a bill to the National Assembly to advance the plan. He…