The Latest Breaking News from Disease

Three Rural Idaho Counties Face Days of Wildfire Smoke, and the Advisory Names Exactly Who Should Change Plans

An Idaho air quality advisory covers Butte, Custer and Lemhi counties. What people with asthma, COPD or heart disease should do.

Medical Daily · Jul 30

FDA Clears a Non-Invasive Test That Estimates a Heart Pressure Normally Measured with a Catheter

The FDA cleared CorVista's PCWP add-on, a non-invasive AI test estimating a heart pressure usually measured by catheter.

Medical Daily · Jul 29

FDA Approves an At-Home Injector for the Diuretic That Usually Means a Trip to the Emergency Room

The FDA approved Furoscix ReadyFlow, an at-home furosemide autoinjector for fluid overload in heart failure and kidney disease.

Medical Daily · Jul 29

Pancreatic Cancer Drug Doubled Survival in Phase 3 Trial. Who Qualifies for Expanded Access?

Daraxonrasib nearly doubled median survival in advanced pancreatic cancer. It is not approved yet, but expanded access is open for some patients.

Medical Daily · Jul 29

Sixth Death Confirmed in Manhattan Legionnaires Cluster as City Reports 59 Cooling Towers with Live Bacteria

A sixth person has died in the Upper East Side Legionnaires cluster as NYC reports 59 cooling towers with live Legionella bacteria.

Medical Daily · Jul 29

Conflicts can spread infectious diseases while making outbreaks harder to detect

The Ebola outbreak that emerged in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and crossed into neighbouring Uganda may have been killing people for weeks before the alarm was raised. When Médecins Sans Frontières investigated in May 2026, it reported that at least 55 people had died since the beginning of…

The Conversation · Jul 29

Hundreds of people in England died before doctors diagnosed their tuberculosis

Dave, a retired dockworker, has smoked since his teens. When he develops a persistent cough, he dismisses it as “just a smoker’s cough”.

The Conversation · Jul 29

8 Stomach Symptoms That Can Be Early Signs of Stomach Cancer

Most stomach aches, indigestion, or bloating are caused by common digestive issues rather than cancer. However, stomach cancer often begins with subtle symptoms that are easy to dismiss, allowing the disease to progress before it is discovered. According to the American Cancer Society, early stomach cancer may cause few or…

Budget and the Bees · Jul 29

Kidney disease is also a brain disease. Here’s why

Generally speaking, when we think of ‘kidney disease’, we think of dialysis or a kidney transplant. But it is less well known that kidney disease, which affects more than 10 per cent of the world’s population, can have significant consequences for the functioning of other organs.

The Conversation · Jul 29

Michael J. Fox will receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys

Michael J. Fox will be honoured with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 78th Emmy Awards for his ground-breaking work raising awareness and funding research into Parkinson’s disease.

BANG Premier · Jul 29