A key deadline to finalise a global pandemic treaty has been missed by negotiators, prompting warnings that the world remains unprepared for the next major disease outbreak. Countries have been trying to agree how they should share information on pathogens, such as bacteria or viruses, that could cause pandemics – and what access to any…
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Country music icon Dolly Parton cancelled all upcoming Las Vegas shows due to health issues, discussing her kidney stones and other problems, saying “everything I have is treatable.” (AP) There are now seven confirmed or suspected hantavirus cases on a cruise ship, and the World Health…
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An X-ray of the woman’s arm, with the arrow pointing to her tumour before the biopsy Gannon M C, Gabor R M, Gupta A, et al. (April 15, 2026) A woman who had a cancerous tumour in her arm is now in remission despite receiving no treatment. This is thought to be due to a…
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People with Alzheimer’s disease are missing out on experimental treatments because they are not diagnosed early or accurately enough to be enrolled in clinical trials, a UK charity has said. Trials of Alzheimer’s drugs reached a record high this year, according to data published on Tuesday, but Alzheimer’s Research UK said too few UK patients…
The ship set off from Ushuaia, southern Argentina on April 1 and then stopped at multiple exotic locations, including mainland Antarctica and the remote Atlantic islands of Tristan da Cunha and Saint Helena. In a lengthy summary of what is known about the outbreak, the WHO said passengers and crew began to feel ill between…
Doug Whitney (left, pictured with his son Brian in November 2022) is genetically predisposed to develop Alzheimer’s, but has so far dodged the condition Shelby Lum/Associated Press/Alamy A man in the US who was virtually guaranteed to get early-onset Alzheimer’s disease because of his genetics has somehow dodged it, possibly thanks to his inadvertent heat…
Your flights are booked, the hotel reserved and the guidebook open for that summer getaway. Maybe it’s to the beaches of Sicily for a “White Lotus”-inspired fantasy or hiking in the Swiss Alps. You know that the Iran war has pushed oil, and jet fuel, prices up, but with everything already booked, you’re comfortable with…
An IBM quantum computer at Cleveland Clinic, one of the pair used to simulate a record-breakingly large molecule Kincaid/IBM One of the most promising uses for quantum computers is to simulate proteins that could help us discover new drugs, but these devices are currently too error-prone for the task. However, two quantum computers have now…
