Samuel Boateng scrutinises medical claims for the strength of the evidence behind them. Exacting, plain-spoken, and quick to separate a real result from a hopeful headline.
GLP-1 users were more than four times as likely to report nail detachment as non-users. The findings, presented at a dermatology congress, have not yet been peer reviewed.
The NEOPRISM-CRC trial gave immunotherapy before surgery instead of the usual post-operative chemotherapy. In 59% of participants, no detectable disease remained after treatment — and none of the 32 had a recurrence at the 33-month mark.
Scientists directly measured autophagy in human blood, skin and nerve cells — and found more activity, not less, was linked to worse fitness in people aged 70 and over. The finding challenges a long-held assumption that declining cellular recycling is a hallmark of ageing.
Measles cases in the region rose by 743 percent between 2022 and 2024, with coverage still well below the 95 percent needed to prevent outbreaks. The WHO has proposed a regional immunisation plan through 2030.
Researchers analysed 300 million laboratory results from over a million women and found 52 of 90 blood markers changed suddenly around the final menstrual period — not gradually, as long assumed. Some specialists have pushed back on the study's "cliff-like" framing, calling it unnecessarily alarming.
A Cambridge and University of East Anglia survey of more than 6,600 people found women were also nearly 50% more likely to receive a psychiatric misdiagnosis. The most common wait for a correct diagnosis was one to two years for women, against up to three months for men.
A study covering 79 countries puts annual snake envenoming cases at up to 7 million. Sub-Saharan Africa carries 45% of the burden, and more than 800,000 survivors are left permanently disabled each year.
Closures rose 4 percent year over year while openings fell by 3 percent, leaving 216 fewer hospitals than 15 years ago. Safety-net facilities, which serve uninsured and vulnerable patients, were among the hardest hit.
A Kenyan citizen who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for seven years died in Nairobi days after arriving by air. Health officials are now tracking 23 passengers and four crew members from the flight, along with 28 other contacts.
The Trump administration says the overhaul will strip out so-called zombie rates and other redundant data, making costs far easier to compare before treatment. Hospital compliance with federal transparency rules stood at just 49.4% as of August 2026.
The WHO now ranks the virus 14th globally in 2023, down from first place in 2021. Deaths from COVID-19 have fallen 85% since their peak.
Speaking at a pre-COP31 summit in Fiji, Simon Stiell said rising temperatures are increasingly linked to premature births, stillbirths and maternal complications. A survey of 1,000 midwives and doctors found more than two-thirds had witnessed severe heat-related outcomes over the past five years.
Daria Shipilova, 28, fell ill after the accident at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute and died on 2 October. Nearly 200 people have been isolated, a hospital quarantined and a criminal investigation opened into possible safety breaches.
Health ministry figures put confirmed cases at 8,300 since the outbreak was announced on 15 May. The virus driving it, Bundibugyo, has no known treatment or vaccine.
The African Leaders Malaria Alliance says the shortfall could also kill nearly 400,000 people and cost $37 billion in lost output. Current funding stands at $3.9 billion — less than half the minimum the Global Technical Strategy says is needed.
Saimoni Vunilagi fell ill at a session in Fukuoka where temperatures hit 35C and humidity topped 75%. His death comes as athletes across tennis, running and cycling face worsening heat, with sports bodies divided over how to respond.
A shoebox-sized DNA sequencer analyses tumour tissue while surgeons operate, cutting a process that can currently take six to eight weeks. The pilot begins at five specialist centres in England, with no wider rollout date yet confirmed.
The first globally comparable survival estimates for childhood leukaemia put the rate at 80–90% in wealthy nations and around 40% where diagnosis and medicines are harder to reach. The WHO wants at least 60% global survival by 2030.
The money goes to CEPI's 2027–2031 strategy, which aims to have vaccines ready within 100 days of a new threat emerging. The fund is still seeking the bulk of its $2.5 billion target.
The detection adds South Sudan to a regional outbreak already affecting two-thirds of Uganda's districts and seven counties in Kenya. How far the disease has spread beyond the farm, and how many pigs are affected, remains unknown.
The FTC has fined Cerebral and BetterHelp millions over undisclosed sharing of mental health data with advertisers. Its most recent case, filed in July 2026, alleges Hims & Hers uploaded 14 million customer email addresses to Meta without proper notice.
NHS data analysed by Rethink Mental Illness found that people with serious mental disorders are nearly five times more likely to die before 75 than the general population. Physical illness — not suicide — accounts for most of those early deaths, with cancer and cardiovascular disease each making up almost a fifth.
Italy has recorded more than 650 infections this year — roughly half of all European cases — as rising temperatures lengthen mosquito season and push the virus into provinces where it was rarely seen before. The Netherlands has also reported its first cases since 2020.
The passenger travelled from Chicago to Los Angeles and onward through Alameda, Butte, Kern, Sacramento and San Joaquin counties between Sept. 10 and 14 before continuing to Denver. California has recorded 59 measles cases this year, more than 90% involving people who were unvaccinated or of unknown vaccination status.
A new state law opens access to investigational treatments for patients with any condition — the first in the US to let companies bill for experimental care. Protocols need sign-off from a private review board, not the FDA, and only about one in ten drugs that reach this stage are ever fully approved.
Nearly one in four doctors worldwide is over 55, and in richer countries the figure is closer to one in three. At the same time, the share of people aged 65 or older is rising — and 67 countries are expected to lack enough staff to cope.
NICE rejected the drug on cost grounds in 2024. A higher cost-effectiveness threshold, introduced as part of a deal with the Trump administration in April, and a commercial discount on Enhertu's list price of more than £100,000 a year cleared the way for Thursday's approval.
More than 20 products banned under international law were listed on the three platforms as of September 1, most still available after the companies pledged to remove them. Some contained mercury at levels tens of thousands of times above the US legal limit.
Greg Hess, medical examiner for Pima County, has built some of the most detailed heat-death tracking in the country. But local effort can't substitute for a national record that doesn't exist.
Interactive county-level maps from Power to Decide and the Guttmacher Institute reveal where affordable contraception is hardest to reach. Meanwhile, 29 states have introduced bills to protect contraceptive access in 2026, and nine have already become law.
A global review of 38 studies found that 33 reported significant differences in the treatment men and women received for cardiovascular and kidney conditions. Clinical guidelines almost never recommended different care by sex, leaving the reasons for the gap unexplained.
More than 166,000 suspected cases have been reported since March, with young children hit hardest. Officials blame the crisis on vaccine shortages and cancelled immunisation campaigns in 2024 and 2025.
The cases are centred on the Munyamadzi River area of Muchinga province, where residents consumed meat from animals that died in the outbreak. Authorities have suspended hunting and warned people not to touch or eat wildlife carcasses.
With 7,022 confirmed cases, the outbreak has become the deadliest in the country's history. The government says it peaked in August; the World Health Organization says transmission is still uncontrolled across seven provinces.
The outbreak, traced to Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce from central Mexico, caused 570 hospitalisations and two deaths — making it the worst year for cyclospora infections on record in the US. The FDA is still investigating how the parasite entered the lettuce supply.
Only 71.2% of patients are starting treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral, down from 71.9%. The government wants to reach 80% by March 2027 — but that would require more than 2,800 extra patients a month to begin treatment on time.
The records, hidden in 68 boxes for more than two decades, show asbestos found half a mile from ground zero ten months after the attacks. Residents had been repeatedly told the air was safe to breathe.
Zamfara has recorded 261 suspected cases across 10 districts, with Kano reporting more than 30,000. About 68% of confirmed cases nationwide involved unvaccinated people, and the federal government has deployed 500,000 vaccine doses to the worst-hit states.
Global aid reductions, led by the closure of USAID, have pushed 36 IRC-supported facilities toward shutdown. Hospital admissions are rising sharply as war, hunger and a measles outbreak in Darfur drive demand that a shrinking system can no longer meet.
Preliminary phase 3 results found that none of the children who received a placebo lost enough weight to no longer be classified as obese. The drug is not yet approved for children under 12, and the full data have yet to be peer-reviewed.
The Bundibugyo strain has no approved vaccine or treatment, and burial teams face attacks as families demand traditional rites. The WHO warns the outbreak could exceed the West Africa epidemic of 2014–2016, which killed more than 11,000 people.
Vials bearing the batch number KE25012 were seized from an unlicensed residential premises in Delhi after failing potency tests. The manufacturer says it did not produce them — and because rabies is almost invariably fatal once symptoms appear, anyone who received the counterfeit doses may believe they are protected when they are not.
The figure is nearly double the total for the whole of last summer, and England is on track for its highest ever annual heat death toll. August's casualties have not yet been counted.
With 6,250 cases recorded since mid-May, health workers have managed to trace fewer than one in five expected contacts. Authorities are shifting to community-based containment as the outbreak spreads too fast and too wide to be brought under control through treatment centres alone.
The deaths were caused by a dangerous disorder in which the immune system turns against the body's own organs — a known risk of CAR-T therapy. The paused studies had enrolled more than 500 patients across conditions including lupus, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Six physician organisations are urging vaccination against flu, COVID-19 and RSV for groups the federal government does not currently cover, including healthy younger adults and pregnant women. COVID vaccines cut hospitalisation risk by more than half for the over-65s, according to evidence summaries released alongside the guidance.
A major new estimate puts the annual toll at up to 433 million farmers and agricultural workers — roughly 46% of the global farm workforce. Pesticides kill around 11,000 people a year, with almost 60% of those deaths in India.
An NPR and Boston University investigation found that official figures miss most heat-related deaths because death certificates rarely name heat as a cause, even when it is decisive. In Tennessee alone, the real number is likely five times higher than the official count.
The contaminated shredded iceberg lettuce was supplied by Taylor Farms and served at Taco Bell restaurants. The CDC has called the cyclosporiasis outbreak massive and says a further update is coming.
The FDA has urged Everything Sprouts, a Minneapolis company, to pull its products after investigators linked them to an unusually complex contamination involving four bacterial strains at once. As of 21 August, the company had not complied.
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