Pink-branded everything, walks to raise money and a reminder each year that one in eight women will be impacted – October is breast cancer awareness month. Thanks to research, five-year survival rates surpass 90% when the cancer is detected early, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), but further progress is still needed. This is...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff and supporters protested cuts to the agency outside its headquarters in August. Over this past weekend, hundreds more employees were fired. Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg/Getty Images Around 600 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were cut over the long weekend,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) today warns that less than one in three countries around the world has a national policy to address the growing burden of neurological disorders, responsible for over 11 million deaths globally each year. The WHO’s new Global status report on neurology released today shows that neurological conditions now affect more than...
Over the past decade, colorectal cancer rates have gone down overall, but rates in people younger than age 50 have gone up by about 2% each year, the American Cancer Society says. Denise DePaolo, 42, paid attention to the numbers, but also her own family history. Her father, like so many others from his generation,...
AMA News Wire Can the oral microbiome help predict pancreatic cancer risk? Sep 18, 2025 The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is just 13%, and while smoking, obesity, pancreatitis and genetics are known risk factors, together they explain only 30% of all pancreatic cancers. So what is causing this aggressive disease and what can...
Donald Trump’s second presidency has spelled upheaval or worse for multiple spheres of US government. But for science – long a key driver of the US’s global pre-eminence – it has heralded the perfect storm. In public health, climate science, environmental protection and nuclear safety, seasoned career specialists have been left bewildered and often jobless...
The number of measles cases in Far North Queensland has more than doubled, with warnings of more exposure sites including Cairns Hospital’s maternity ward. Four new cases have been confirmed across the region, including Queensland Health staff members, taking the total number of measles infections to seven. Cairns Hospital confirmed a potentially infectious person spent...
HAPPENING NOW: Former CDC officials testify before the Senate Health Committee about their firings and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/susan-monarez-former-cdc-director-testify-senate-ouster/story?id=125628812 | ABC News Source link
A federal vaccine advisory panel is expected to vote to recommend delaying until age 4 the hepatitis B vaccine, currently given to newborns. Source link
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters as Senate Democratic leaders hold a press conference following their weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 9, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Congressional Democrats are zeroing in on health care as a key sticking point in negotiations with the threat...