The Latest Breaking News from Disease

With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in genomic medicine, which is geared toward benefiting future patients, time and funding pressures make real-time ethics oversight difficult.

West Nile virus is the most common mosquito-borne illness in the continental U.S., with an average of 2,464 reported cases per year.

Untreated hypertension is linked to a 42% higher risk of Alzheimer's disease in adults aged 60 or older, a study revealed.

The study found that drinking more than 400 mg of caffeine most days raises the risk of heart disease in otherwise healthy individuals.

World health authorities are increasingly alarmed by the latest mpox outbreak, driven by a more lethal and infectious variant than the strain behind the 2022 outbreak – with this new version predominantly affecting children.

The WHO on Thursday warned further imported cases of the new, more dangerous mpox strain in Europe were likely, after Sweden announced the first such infection outside Africa in an outbreak that has killed hundreds in the DR Congo.

Learn about the recent Legionnaires' disease outbreak in downtown Lincoln, NH, and the precautions advised by health officials.

The songwriter and novelist died from complications caused by Alzheimer’s disease

The Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday an mpox outbreak has killed 548 people there this year, as the first case outside Africa of the virus's more dangerous variant was recorded in a traveller in Sweden.