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The WHO Foundation and Novo Nordisk announced a new collaboration in March 2026 aimed squarely at childhood obesity in India, using schools as the entry point. The program will fund health screenings, nutrition education, and early risk identification inside India's existing Ayushman Bharat school h
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested a specially engineered chewing gum against three microbes linked to head and neck cancer, and the results are genuinely interesting. In lab tests using saliva and oral rinse from cancer patients, extracts from the gum cut HPV levels by up to 93% a
The World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report 2025 has some genuinely good news buried inside a warning. TB deaths and new cases both fell in 2024, the first decline in three years. But WHO officials are blunt that this progress is fragile, because funding for TB prevention, diagnosis,
A new CDC report published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) found something transplant doctors are taking seriously: suspected donor-derived Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV) infections in organ transplant recipients rose roughly fivefold between 2021 and 2025 compared
The FIFA World Cup 2026 was the biggest in tournament history: 48 teams, 16 host cities across the US, Canada, and Mexico, and more than 5 million tickets sold over 39 days. Behind the matches, the CDC ran a public health operation most fans never noticed, running port health checks, a real-time dis
Cancer death rates in the U.S. have dropped 35% since 1991, and the gap between Black and white mortality rates has narrowed significantly too. That's the good news in AACR's new Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2026. The harder news: Black and Native American communities still have the highest c.
A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania shows something worth paying attention to: public trust in the CDC, FDA, and NIH has dropped another 5 to 7 percentage points over the past year, continuing a slide that started in 2024. But the full picture is mo
Colorectal cancer used to be something doctors worried about mostly in people over 65. That's changing fast. New data from the American Cancer Society and a major review from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute show colorectal cancer rising sharply in adults under 50, and it's now the leading cause of can
A new immunotherapy is giving bladder cancer patients an option many haven't had before: keeping their bladder. In a Mayo Clinic-led international trial, a treatment called cretostimogene grenadenorepvec helped patients whose cancer came back after standard BCG therapy avoid the surgery that's long
India carried out 20,138 organ transplants in 2025, its highest count ever, government data released on the 16th Indian Organ Donation Day shows. That's up from around 18,900 in 2024 and just under 5,000 in 2013. Kidneys made up the largest share,
Can science ever let us live forever? A new mathematical model published in npj Aging says no — not even close. Researchers at the Skolkovo Institute built a model to see what would happen if every reversible cause of aging (disease, hormone decline, cellular damage) were somehow eliminated.
The FDA has approved lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan (Pluvicto), a targeted radioactive therapy, in combination with an ARPI drug for men with PSMA-positive metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. This is the earliest stage of metastatic disease where this radioligand therapy has been
