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Adults with type 2 diabetes who do not use insulin had lower blood sugar at the end of a 26-week trial if they wore a continuous glucose monitor than if they got routine care, the CONNECT Study Group…
Every one of 38 sick camels swabbed during a respiratory outbreak in southwestern Kazakhstan tested positive for the MERS coronavirus, Aidyn Kydyrmanov, Kobey Karamendin and colleagues at the…
Public health laboratories across Japan typed 919 bacterial samples from patients with streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, a fast-moving and often deadly infection, and found that two newer variants…
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute reported Oct. 15, 2026, in PLOS Medicine that older US adults who ate the most ultra-processed food were no more likely to develop colorectal cancer than…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the approved use of the bladder cancer drug Anktiva on Oct. 14, 2026, to cover adults whose cancer has not spread into the bladder's muscle and no…
A fungus that survived antifungal treatment in two critically ill London patients carried none of the gene mutations usually blamed for that failure, according to a paper published Oct. 15, 2026, in…
Polar bears in East Greenland carry antibodies to the highly pathogenic H5 bird flu now spreading through wild birds worldwide, and no sample taken before 2024 carried antibodies to any influenza A…
A nationwide South Korean birth cohort, published Oct. 13, 2026, in PLOS Medicine, reports that children whose mothers were prescribed opioids during pregnancy were later admitted to the hospital 28%…
Dozens of routine laboratory tests change abruptly at a woman's last menstrual period rather than drifting over years, according to a reconstruction of 300 million test results from more than 1…
A malaria parasite spends its working life inside a red blood cell, eating the hemoglobin around it, and the meal is also its problem. Breaking hemoglobin down releases heme, the iron-bearing core…
A UK research team reports that in 771 adults hospitalized with COVID-19, the bacteria living in the mouth and the airways six months after discharge differed according to how severe the patients'…
Lower income was associated with a longer wait before seeing a doctor among women diagnosed with breast cancer at 40 or younger, according to an analysis published Oct. 12, 2026, in the journal…
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