Florida is experiencing its largest dengue outbreak in decades, with over 250 locally acquired cases reported this year.

Measles has made a troubling comeback in the U.S. as MMR vaccination rates have fallen. But the same vaccine protects against two other viruses — mumps and rubella. So why haven’t they mad...

A study finding clesrovimab comparable to palivizumab in protecting at-risk infants in their first RSV season was extended to demonstrate clesrovimab effective and well-tolerated when administered in ...

Doctors have shown the immune system can be primed to keep the virus in check — a promising advance just as US funding cuts threaten future research.

Three Florida counties have declared states of emergency due to a surge in locally acquired dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness that has circulated in Florida for years.But unlike previous dengue outbreaks in the state, which were mostly centered in South Florida, the numbers show a new trend for 2026: The viral illness is moving north, specifically to the state’s central Gulf Coast.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has now recorded more than 4,000 deaths as authorities struggle to contain the virus

The implementation of wealth redistribution policies proposed in recent high-level international agreements could mitigate the health consequences of the current ODA defunding crisis, avert millions o...

WHO’s latest Global Health Estimates, released on 2 October 2026, provide a picture of how health has changed across countries and regions between 2000 and 2023, including trends in life expectancy, c...

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We need representative data from humanitarian settings to improve our ability to monitor and evaluate humanitarian assistance, and to hold national and global leaders to account. Absence of evidence i...

Metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) in the liver that lack the enzyme necessary to synthesize serine can reprogram hepatocytes to produce this amino acid, thus promoting tumour growth and survival.

Other researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable.

New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori

New global research suggests 12 per cent of cancers were caused by infections, predominantly caused by HPV and H. pylori

Today we highlight a discovery with potentially important implications for future Alzheimer's research and treatments. We also report on an experimental Gilead therapy showing great promise ​against a...

Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…

The world has ridden fast to rescue DRC from Ebola. But four months on, nobody can say for sure how many agencies are responding, how many people they employ,

In this regular feature on Breakthroughs, we highlight some of the most interesting reads in global health research from the past week.

A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979. The massive glacier melt is mainly attributed to warmer waters eroding the ice sheets from...

Hillsborough County leads in the number of Florida dengue cases by a massive margin.

In his Angelus message, Pope Leo XIV reflects on the power of forgiving others like Christ has forgiven us in order to counter hatred, division and ...

Mosquito-borne disease has infected hundreds statewide and killed one woman in Tampa.

A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.

This review aims to provide an overview of dengue–COVID–19 co-infection, emphasizing recently described immunological, genomic, and eco-epidemiological inter...

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