In a recent statement, the World Health Organization said there might have been a rare case where hantavirus spread from one person to another on a Dutch cruise ship, where three people have died. On 2 May 2026, the WHO was told about several passengers on the ship who had serious breathing problems....
Tuesday, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) announced Phase 2b data from two studies evaluating JNJ-4804 in patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. In the DUET-CD study, JNJ-4804a demonstrated higher clinical remission rates and endoscopic response rates than golimumab...
Tuesday, Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) announced new long-term data from the LUCENT-3 open-label extension study in patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis treated with Omvoh. The study showed that 63.5 percent of Omvoh-treated patients who achieved disease clearance at one year...
An outbreak of deadly hantavirus aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has triggered an international public health response. The World Health Organization said it is coordinating evacuations and risk assessments following the death of three people and multiple suspected infections on board ...
Researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland, based at University College Cork, have made an important discovery about how coffee affects the body. For the first time, they closely studied how coffee, whether or not it contains caffeine, interacts with the 'gut-brain axis,' the system that connects the digestive...
The number of years that people in Britain can expect to live in good health has fallen sharply over the past decade, with more individuals experiencing illness well before reaching retirement age, according to a new study. Between 2012 and 2014 and 2022 and 2024, healthy life expectancy (HLE) in...
a2 Milk Company Ltd. (ACOPF, A2M.AX), a dairy company, announced a recall of select infant milk formula, manufactured by Synlait Milk Limited and sold only in the United States, citing the presence of cereulide. The recall involves three batches of a2 Platinum USA label infant milk formula, comprising...
Monday, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TAK) announced positive topline data from TAK-881-3001, a pivotal Phase 2/3 clinical trial evaluating TAK-881 in patients with Primary Immunodeficiency Disease or PID. The trial evaluated the pharmacokinetic, efficacy, safety, tolerability and immunogenicity...
Three people have died and three others are ill following suspected cases of hantavirus infection on a cruise ship in the Atlantic, the World Health Organization reported. WHO noted that one case of the rodent-borne disease has been confirmed so far and there are five additional suspected cases. WHO...
Bladder cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States- yet it remains one of the least talked about. As Bladder Cancer Awareness Month begins, the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) is urging the country to pay attention to a disease that affects more than 725,000 people nationwide, with over 84,000 new cases expected this year.
Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (TCNNF) has officially filed applications with the Drug Enforcement Administration to register certain state-sanctioned medical marijuana operations using a new faster track for approval.
An artificial intelligence or AI tool developed by Mayo Clinic can help doctors find pancreatic cancer much earlier than usual, even up to three years before it is normally diagnosed. "The greatest barrier to saving lives from pancreatic cancer has been our inability to see the disease when it is...
People who get painful kidney stones again and again are usually told to drink more water to stop them from forming. To test if this really helps, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic conducted a large study. "Kidney stone disease is a chronic condition, punctuated by unpredictable, sometimes excruciatingly...
A new study from Brazil suggests that the "sunshine vitamin" could play a powerful role in improving breast cancer treatment. Researchers at São Paulo State University found that women who received daily vitamin D supplements alongside chemotherapy were far more likely to see their tumors disappear compared to those given a placebo.
The Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Serac Healthcare, has published Phase 2 results in The Lancet Obstetrics and Gynaecology, highlighting the potential of a novel molecular imaging agent, 99mTc-maraciclatide, as a non-invasive tool...
May 01, 2026 15:54 ET Central banks dominated the economics news flow this week with almost all major ones announcing their latest policy decisions and many boosted expectations for a rate hike in June. In other news, several countries released the preliminary data for first quarter economic growth. In the U.S., comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell were also in focus as his term ends this month.