A newly released and exhaustive report from Alaska's public health officials offers a granular post-mortem of the COVID-19 pandemic, transforming the state's challenging experience into a crucial set of lessons for inevitable future health crises. By methodically dissecting the outbreak from the
The promise of rapidly delivering life-saving treatments to patients is often mired in a complex web of regulation, but a series of ambitious reforms initiated by the Food and Drug Administration in 2025 sought to change that dynamic. Against a backdrop of a turbulent year for its parent agency,
A silent and pervasive threat is contaminating global water systems as pharmaceuticals, designed to be stable within the human body, prove to be equally resilient in the environment. Compounds like the antiepileptic drug carbamazepine are continuously released into waterways, bypassing conventional
The journey for a promising new drug from laboratory discovery to a patient's bedside can often span two decades, a timeline that represents a significant barrier to advancing public health and treating critical illnesses. This protracted and costly process is a widely acknowledged bottleneck in
Health authorities in Bangladesh have officially confirmed a local outbreak of the Zika virus, with ten laboratory-confirmed cases identified in and around the capital city of Dhaka between September and December 2024, providing conclusive evidence of domestic transmission and raising significant
A comprehensive analysis of global health data collected over three decades has delivered a sobering message about the escalating burden of prostate cancer among men aged 65 and older. This systematic review, which examined trends from 1990 through 2021, reveals a significant and continuous upward
