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The world has nearly won back the years the pandemic stole UN News · 2026-10-03 · Global A tile of radiation, placed where the tumor was — and it works PR Newswire · 2026-09-29 · United States A cure that lasts: scientists close in on stubborn bacterial vaginosis Monash University · 2026-10-01 · Australia The doctor who travels by screen: 50,000 children in line for specialist care Africa Business News · 2026-09-27 · Kenya Three boys, three forms of muscular dystrophy — and one medicine reaching all their muscles PRNewswire (Ractigen Therapeutics) · 2026-10-03 · Japan Colon cancer hijacks the body's repair switch — and scientists just found how to jam it SciTechDaily · 2026-10-03 · USA Fourteen years from a lab discovery to a cure in his blood Technology Networks · 2026-10-03 · Germany A whooping-cough vaccine you could spray up your nose ILiAD Biotechnologies via Business Wire · 2026-10-03 · United Kingdom The pandemic took four years off the world's life — we've nearly won them all back Medical Xpress · 2026-10-03 · Global Ten years malaria-free: WHO honours Sri Lanka for keeping the disease out WHO · 2026-04-25 · Sri Lanka A Pakistani telemedicine startup built by two women doctors is now a Harvard case study TechX · 2026-01-15 · Pakistan Vaccines have saved 2.6 million children's lives in Pakistan over five decades The News · 2026-04-24 · Pakistan Diabetes and weight-loss drugs fall up to 90% in price as Indian generics take over Mint · 2026-03-21 · India India passes 80 lakh HPV doses in its push to wipe out cervical cancer WebIndia123 (ANI) · 2026-09-11 · India A simple tweak in steroid timing halves early deaths in Indian children with leukemia Medical Xpress · 2026-06-07 · India A community-powered plan cut new HIV cases by 70% Medical Xpress · 2026-02-24 · Kenya A soil compound outflanks drug-resistant TB Phys.org · 2026-09-23 · Germany India's own CRISPR cure for sickle cell — at a fraction of the price Digital Health News · 2025-11-20 · India A New Zealand team cracked open a mysterious brain disease LiveNews New Zealand · 2026-09-21 · New Zealand A drug slowed a fatal brain disease — most clearly in women Medical Xpress · 2026-08-02 · Israel An Alzheimer's therapy that retrains the immune system passed its first human trial Medical Xpress · 2026-07-16 · Israel Herbal artificial saliva brings relief to cancer patients BioSpectrum Asia · 2026-03-27 · Thailand A new clue to Alzheimer's, floating in the brain's own fluid SciTechDaily · 2026-09-29 · Spain A drop of blood, 20 minutes: AI reads disease's early whispers BioSpectrum Asia · 2026-04-20 · Singapore One test, many viruses: CRISPR gets a speed-reading trick Seoul Economic Daily · 2026-04-26 · South Korea Transplanting the cell's power plants helped bones regrow Seoul Economic Daily · 2026-07-07 · South Korea Japan approved the world's first stem-cell treatment for Parkinson's Medical Xpress · 2026-03-06 · Japan Japan performed the world's first surgery with lab-grown heart muscle Health and Family · 2026-09-29 · Japan A new antibiotic jams bacteria's protein factory at a spot never hit before Medical Xpress · 2026-06-03 · Canada A twice-yearly shot against HIV reaches Zambia Sierra Leone Telegraph · 2026-09-10 · Zambia A new TB vaccine is one step closer after strong trial results Spotlight · 2026-08-28 · South Africa Gene editing freed sickle cell patients from a lifetime of pain Medical Xpress · 2026-04-01 · USA The first gene therapy for inherited deafness was approved Smithsonian Magazine · 2026-04-29 · USA A simple blood test for Alzheimer's won FDA clearance Medical Xpress · 2026-09-03 · USA A gene-silencing drug offers hope for children with a rare epilepsy BioSpace · 2026-06-22 · USA Gentle electrical fields eased Parkinson's tremors — without surgery Drugs.com · 2026-05-14 · USA A vaccine made for one person's cancer kept melanoma from returning Reuters · 2026-08-19 · USA New drug eases the dryness and pain of Sjögren's disease Reuters · 2026-09-22 · USA A daily pill steadied the hearts of people living with thickened heart muscle LinkNKY · 2026-09-17 · USA 13,000 living kidney donors have given strangers a second chance National Kidney Registry · 2026-10-01 · USA US overdose deaths are falling at a historic pace CDC · 2026-08-31 · USA Canadian scientists found a new antibiotic that outsmarts resistant bacteria Medscape · 2026-06-03 · Canada An AI-designed drug turned back the biological clock in a trial USA Today · 2026-09-09 · USA A new treatment for bipolar mania cleared a major clinical trial Reuters · 2026-09-21 · USA A blood test could take the guesswork out of antidepressants Medical Xpress · 2026-07-15 · USA A personalized mRNA shot is helping melanoma patients stay cancer-free longer UCHealth · 2026-08-19 · USA A new cell therapy is giving multiple myeloma patients another shot Reuters · 2026-09-08 · USA El Salvador Just Beat the World's Top Infectious Cause of Blindness World Health Organization · 2026-07-13 · El Salvador Barbados Is Turning Its Debt Into Health Care The High Street Journal · 2026-09-22 · Barbados Guyana's Nursing Schools Went Hybrid — and the Workforce Quadrupled PAHO/WHO · 2026-05-01 · Guyana Mexico's Dengue, Measles and COVID Cases Are All Falling Mexico Business News · 2026-07-14 · Mexico Chile's dogs stopped spreading rabies — first in South America Associated Press · 2026-09-14 · Chile Chile consigns an ancient disease to history PAHO/WHO · 2026-03-04 · Chile Brazil moves to certify an end to hepatitis B in newborns PAHO/WHO · 2026-07-29 · Brazil Four countries met in Paramaribo to finish the job Suriname started on malaria PAHO/WHO · 2026-08-15 · Suriname Suriname became the first Amazonian country ever certified malaria-free World Health Organization · 2025-06-30 · Suriname Guyana is weaving mental health into everyday doctor visits PAHO/WHO · 2026-05-21 · Guyana Peru is bringing reproductive health care to the Amazon's most overlooked girls PAHO/WHO · 2026-08-03 · Peru In Peru's Amazon, a doctor and a Kakataibo liaison are healing a decades-old distrust of hospitals PAHO/WHO · 2026-03-01 · Peru A device called Julieta could bring breast cancer screening to women who never had a mammogram Devdiscourse (IDB Lab announcement) · 2026-09-11 · Colombia A chatbot in Lithuania is easing young people's anxiety — and the results are holding EU Health and Digital Executive Agency · 2026-05-05 · Lithuania Three European countries just hit the 90% HPV vaccination mark — and cervical cancer is on the run CIDRAP · 2026-04-20 · Portugal 20 cyclists rode 500km around Fiji so its children could breathe easier Cure Kids (via LinkedIn) · 2026-07-13 · Fiji Fiji just eliminated trachoma as a public health threat Mai TV Fiji · 2026-02-17 · Fiji New Zealand's health system is quietly getting better on 19 of 25 measures NZ Doctor · 2026-09-25 · New Zealand The Philippines will feed 4.6 million schoolchildren, 200 days a year Philippine News Agency · 2026-03-24 · Philippines Thailand wants to pay its village health volunteers a real wage Thailand Inquirer · 2026-09-11 · Thailand A drug that could grow your teeth back is now being tested in people Brief News · 2026-05-02 · Japan Japan's century club just passed 100,000 members CNN · 2026-09-15 · Japan Zimbabwe's 'Friendship Bench' wins €250,000 Africa Prize for mental health King Baudouin Foundation · 2026-05-09 · Zimbabwe Angola and Namibia vaccinate 230,000 children in synchronized polio push WHO Regional Office for Africa · 2026-02-24 · Angola Tunisia defeats trachoma, the world's leading infectious cause of blindness Devdiscourse · 2026-05-15 · Tunisia Uganda declared Ebola-free after containing outbreak IGAD · 2026-07-29 · Uganda The malaria vaccine is saving children's lives, WHO confirms UN News · 2026-05-08 · Ghana Two years in, Burkina Faso's malaria vaccine is saving lives Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance · 2026-04-20 · Burkina Faso She lived to 117 — and her cells hid a paradox that could rewrite aging ScienceDaily · 2026-09-09 · Spain Magnetic pulses, measurable hope — 83% respond in depression pilot GlobeNewswire · 2026-09-08 · USA For migraine patients who'd run out of options: 60% felt much better PR Newswire (via WCIA) · 2026-10-01 · Denmark An injection that could spare skin-cancer patients the knife News-Medical · 2026-10-01 · Spain A new piece of heart, grown from 200 million cells Medical Xpress · 2026-09-30 · Japan Ghana's children get a champion — and the world just noticed Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) · 2026-10-03 · Ghana Forty-one years after cancer, she's still walking MyCentralJersey.com · 2026-10-03 · USA Scarred by lupus, cleared by a drug that keeps getting better Reuters · 2026-10-02 · USA Loneliness may predict memory loss better than isolation The Educated Patient · 2026-10-02 · USA A new clinic rises for 6,800 patients a month Africa Newsroom · 2026-10-02 · South Africa The measles test made in Africa, for Africa Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance · 2026-09-30 · Senegal Eight countries prove diabetes screening can start at age two Medical Xpress · 2026-10-02 · Italy The headset that walked housebound patients back into the world Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT · 2026-10-02 · UK Six doses, one patient, and a marker of nerve damage cut in half Medical Xpress · 2026-10-02 · USA Two molecules take on the gut's civil war Medical Xpress · 2026-10-01 · USA A year on the drug, and the scars are fading Biogen (GlobeNewswire) · 2026-10-02 · USA