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Eli Lilly’s Unapproved Weight-Loss Drug Is Now Sold at Brooklyn Corner Stores for $95

A CBS News reporter purchased Eli Lilly's experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide at a Brooklyn convenience store for $95 with no prescription as toxicity reports rise and the FDA warns such products are

July 3, 2026

by Health Desk

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Michigan Cyclospora Cases Hit 300 Across 21 Counties, Six Times the State’s Normal Annual Total

Michigan health officials have confirmed more than 300 cases of cyclosporiasis in under two weeks, spreading the parasitic illness across 21 counties and hitting six times the state's typical annual case total. The source of the contamination has not been

July 3, 2026

by Health Desk

Seynabou Diop works in the laboratory at Institut Pasteur in Dakar where the hantavirus genome from the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak was sequenced

WHO Declares the Hantavirus Outbreak Linked to the MV Hondius Cruise Ship Officially Over

WHO declared the hantavirus outbreak linked to the Dutch polar expedition ship MV Hondius officially over

Medical illustration of a multipolar neuron showing cell body dendrites and axon the type found in the motor cortex disrupted by Huntington's disease

Scientists Identify and Repair the Brain Circuit Silenced by Huntington’s Disease in Mice

An international team led by UC San Diego identified VIP inhibitory neurons that go quiet early

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The Largest mRNA Vaccine Review Yet Says Safe. Washington Has Said Otherwise

A sweeping Lancet review led by UBC researchers, drawing on billions of administered doses, finds mRNA vaccines safe and effective and points to cancer vaccines next. It arrives as the US health

July 2, 2026

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A Bat Left No Mark on This 11-Year-Old. Rabies Killed Him Anyway

An 11-year-old Ontario boy died of rabies 19 days after waking up with a bat on his face, with no bite or scratch anyone could see. Doctors are publishing his case now

July 2, 2026

Health·News

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FDA Lets Zyn Claim Lower Cancer Risk Than Cigarettes, Months After Ousting Its Skeptic

The FDA has authorized Zyn nicotine pouches to tell smokers the cans lower their risk of six diseases, a claim granted seven weeks after the Trump administration pushed out the commissioner who

July 2, 2026

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Flesh-Eating Bacteria Spread North as Federal Disease Defenses Thin Out

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that kills roughly one in five people it infects, has turned up in Long Island's coastal waters and sickened residents in Florida and Mississippi this year, as CDC

July 2, 2026

Health·News

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CDC’s Own Vaccine Page Now Hedges on Autism as AI Chatbot Users Believe the Myth More

A new KFF poll finds Americans who use AI chatbots weekly for health advice are far more likely to believe the MMR-autism myth. The finding lands weeks after the CDC quietly rewrote

July 2, 2026

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Scientists Build the First Synthetic Cell That Can Grow, Divide and Compete

University of Minnesota scientists say a synthetic cell called SpudCell, built entirely from non-living chemical components, has completed a full biological life cycle for the first time, growing, replicating its DNA and

July 2, 2026

News·Science

Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, official portrait

NIH’s Largest Health Database Arrives as Trump Squeezes Science Funding

NIH says its All of Us program is now the world's largest integrated genomic and health-record database, holding data from more than 747,000 Americans. The milestone lands as the same administration pushes

July 2, 2026

Health·News

Transmission electron microscopic image confirming Marburg virus in a hemorrhagic fever patient

Marburg Virus Detected in Uganda Amid Record Ebola Outbreak

A toddler's death in western Uganda has been confirmed as Marburg virus disease, opening a second hemorrhagic fever front in a country already battling a record Ebola outbreak. WHO and Africa CDC

July 2, 2026

Health·News

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How Yunus Made Measles a Pandemic in Bangladesh

More than 519 people have died with suspected measles symptoms in Bangladesh since mid-March 2026, with 91 deaths laboratory-confirmed, in what the WHO has classified as the country's worst measles outbreak since

June 29, 2026

Health·News

Electron microscope image of an Ebola virus virion

French Doctor Brings Ebola to France in First Case Outside Africa Since DRC Outbreak Began

A French doctor became the first person to carry Ebola outside Africa in the current outbreak as France confirmed the case on June 24. The Bundibugyo strain, for which no approved vaccine

June 26, 2026

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Eli Lilly’s Unapproved Weight-Loss Drug Is Now Sold at Brooklyn Corner Stores for $95

Michigan Cyclospora Cases Hit 300 Across 21 Counties, Six Times the State’s Normal Annual Total

WHO Declares the Hantavirus Outbreak Linked to the MV Hondius Cruise Ship Officially Over

Scientists Identify and Repair the Brain Circuit Silenced by Huntington’s Disease in Mice

The Largest mRNA Vaccine Review Yet Says Safe. Washington Has Said Otherwise

A Bat Left No Mark on This 11-Year-Old. Rabies Killed Him Anyway

FDA Lets Zyn Claim Lower Cancer Risk Than Cigarettes, Months After Ousting Its Skeptic

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Spread North as Federal Disease Defenses Thin Out

CDC’s Own Vaccine Page Now Hedges on Autism as AI Chatbot Users Believe the Myth More

Scientists Build the First Synthetic Cell That Can Grow, Divide and Compete

NIH’s Largest Health Database Arrives as Trump Squeezes Science Funding

Marburg Virus Detected in Uganda Amid Record Ebola Outbreak

How Yunus Made Measles a Pandemic in Bangladesh

French Doctor Brings Ebola to France in First Case Outside Africa Since DRC Outbreak Began

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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