A 7-month-old child from an Amish family in rural Lewis County, New York, has died of measles, the first known measles death in New York State in more than 30 years. The New York State Department of Health and Lewis County Public Health announced it in a joint statement on Monday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted tentative approval on Monday to a generic version of lenacapavir, the twice-yearly injection that prevents HIV. The drug is made by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories of India and is meant for 120 low- and middle-income countries at $40 per person per year.
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A Yakima County, Washington, resident has died of complications from H5N1 avian influenza after being exposed to infected cattle at a dairy in the county, the Yakima Health District announced. The person had underlying health conditions and was hospitalized before dying.
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Khiana Smith, a 23-year-old fitness creator from Australia's Gold Coast, is still in a Bali hospital with a severe brain infection. Her family hopes doctors will clear her to fly home in about a week.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued an interim policy under which it will not take enforcement action against state-licensed pharmacies, federal facilities or licensed physicians that compound six peptides, as long as they meet a set of conditions. The peptides are BPC-157, Epitalon, KPV, MOTS-c, Semax and TB-500.
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An estimated 75% of former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open. The adjusted figure is 74.5%.
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Arizona has confirmed its first case of New World screwworm, a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on the living tissue of warm-blooded animals. The case is a dog in Cochise County, which borders Mexico.
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Nearly 3.2 million Medicare Advantage enrollees, almost 11% of the total, must find new coverage for 2027 because their insurers are no longer offering their plans, according to a Medicare Market Insights review of federal data. An estimate from the consulting firm Oliver Wyman puts the number of people losing stand-alone Part D drug plans at more than 1 million.
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A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine given with the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab cut the risk of recurrence or death by 42% over two years in patients with high-risk melanoma that had been surgically removed. Merck and Moderna released the phase 3 results on October 22, after the data leaked.
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Actress Christina Applegate, 54, said on October 20 that she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, five years after doctors first told her she had the disease. She made the announcement on an episode of her podcast "MeSsy," which she co-hosts with Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
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U.S. measles cases have surpassed 4,400 this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which put the total at 4,410 as of October 16.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 4,410 measles cases nationwide as of Thursday, an increase of 330 from the previous week, with 451 hospitalizations and two confirmed measles-associated deaths for the year, which the agency has not tied to specific states.
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The National Medical Commission has given MBBS students a fifth attempt to pass their first professional examination, up from the previous limit of four. The relaxation, adopted at the commission's 18th meeting on September 23, applies to students admitted from the 2019-20 academic year onward.
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The UK Health Security Agency is urging older people and those with long-term health conditions to get vaccinated against flu, after new data showed 3,798 people died from the virus in the UK last winter and 13,048 were hospitalized.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending a specialist to Pennsylvania this week to help contain a measles outbreak that has infected more than 1,200 people and been called the worst in the country in three decades. State officials have counted five deaths tied to the outbreak, with a sixth under investigation.
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The CDC said on Tuesday it is sending additional support to Pennsylvania to help investigate the state's ongoing measles outbreak, through its Epi-Aid rapid response program for urgent public health threats.
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Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have surpassed 9,000, according to government figures released Tuesday. Congo's Health Ministry reported 9,066 confirmed cases and 4,381 deaths, figures matched by the country's public health institute in its latest situation report.
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A new mental health report from Amaha, drawing on responses from more than 13,800 people across India collected between October 2025 and September 2026, found that 71.7% of students seeking mental healthcare reported thoughts of self-harm, along with 64.7% of unemployed respondents and 53.2% of working professionals in treatment.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a disaster emergency on Monday to address a measles outbreak spreading through rural parts of the state and into neighboring Pennsylvania.
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A Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health, led by Christopher Murray of the University of Washington and drawing on contributions from dozens of scientists, has identified 17 major global health threats facing humanity through the end of the century, two of which the commission says carry the potential to cause human extinction.
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