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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists six measles-related deaths this year, fewer than state-level confirmations described by The Guardian, after the agency changed how it tracks measles deaths.
The American Cancer Society on 12 November 2026 revised its prostate cancer guidelines to recommend routine screening for many middle-aged men, reversing a position it had held since 2010, according to STAT.
The British Medical Association has paused a planned strike by consultants in England to allow negotiations, but the union and the government publicly differ on whether pay is open for discussion.
Kenya's health minister says all seven patients have recovered and all contacts have completed monitoring, starting a 42-day wait before the country can be declared free of Ebola.
Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have passed 11,000, and Al Jazeera, citing government data, reports at least 5,387 deaths in an outbreak caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain.
The US Food and Drug Administration on 9 November 2026 warned of a potential risk of a serious eye condition associated with GLP-1 drugs used for weight loss and diabetes, and moved to require new risk communication, according to STAT News and Reuters.
STAT reports seven cases, while Reuters reports Novartis said two cases showed evidence of being linked to its gene therapy Zolgensma.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said an infant in the state died in connection with measles, in what state officials reportedly described as Wisconsin's first measles death since 1990.
A British doctor who tested positive for Ebola while working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is receiving specialist treatment in London, the UK government said on Thursday.
A study in The Lancet Planetary Health found that replacing dairy at current fortification levels reduced modelled intake of four micronutrients, with iodine the main concern.
The WHO says cholera has killed around 1,800 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo so far in 2026, and its chief calls the outbreak the country's worst in decades.
The UK government says the risk to the public remains low, while an official document seen by Reuters says a British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated to the UK.
The World Health Organization's projection, released days before the COP31 climate conference according to AFP, rests on what the agency acknowledged were ambitious scenarios.
State officials announced on 2 November 2026 that a child in rural Lewis County died after contracting measles, as the governor and federal health officials offered differing responses.
The United Nations Population Fund says more than 13,000 pregnant women in and around Taiz lack essential healthcare, and Reuters reports the agency links this to fighting, access restrictions and more miscarriages.
Attackers on a motorcycle shot dead two police officers assigned to protect polio vaccination workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday and wounded a third; no group has claimed responsibility.
A hospitalized Yakima County resident with underlying health conditions has died after exposure to avian influenza at a dairy with infected cattle, according to county health officials; the Associated Press reports it is the first U.S. bird flu death in a year.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic version of the HIV-prevention shot lenacapavir, which the AP calls a "cheap version" and STAT News describes as a tentative approval aimed at widening access in low- and middle-income countries.
Nigeria's disease control agency says two people in the country's northeast have been isolated as suspected Ebola cases while laboratory tests are carried out, less than two weeks after the country declared an imported case of the Bundibugyo strain on 20 October.
Government data showed on Friday, 30 October 2026, that more than 5,000 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak, and authorities have yet to find a way to control it.
US health officials said on Friday that the strictest warnings will come off the labels of three estradiol patches, a decision critics say lacks a published evidence base.
Bayer won a US trial on Thursday over claims by three women that Roundup caused their cancer, Deutsche Welle and Reuters reported; according to Deutsche Welle, a Missouri jury sided unanimously with the company.
A Boston-based research team estimates in JAMA Network Open that about three in four deceased former NFL players from the period had evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, including players whose brains were never examined.
Africa CDC is convening African health ministers on 28 October 2026 over an Ebola outbreak centred in DR Congo that has reached Kenya, and its Director General, Jean Kaseya, warned that the outbreak could reach countries outside Africa, according to The Guardian.
The 10th annual Lancet Countdown report finds that many climate-related health harms grew faster in the decade after the Paris Agreement than in the decade before, and its authors call for a global health emergency declaration ahead of COP31.
Congolese government data released on 27 October 2026 show more than 10,000 confirmed Ebola cases. AP reports that the Bundibugyo virus outbreak has reached five countries and that response teams face violence and strikes.
Uganda's health minister announced on 25 October 2026 a 21-day quarantine for citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as Uganda says it remains Ebola-free and disputes a Swiss conclusion about where a woman diagnosed in Nigeria was infected.
A DRC-led trial called Tumaini began in Bunia with the Ervebo vaccine, and two Bundibugyo-specific candidates are expected to join it.
Kenya's Health Ministry said on 23 October 2026 that a 65-year-old woman, a close relative of the country's first Ebola patient, has died after developing symptoms in quarantine.
The Japan Times reports that a Japanese white paper calls for more support amid rising youth suicides, while Medical Xpress reports that university researchers have published 10 'Principles of Practice' for organizations working with young people.