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Cruise Ship Outbreak Streak Halts Alaska Expedition Sailings

Four gastrointestinal outbreaks in nine weeks aboard one 62-berth Alaska expedition vessel have forced Lindblad to cancel three departures and pause operations.

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FDA Labels Nationwide Levothyroxine Recall Class II Over Subpotent Tablets

Regulators designated Major Pharmaceuticals' nationwide levothyroxine recall as Class II, covering twelve product lines and seven tablet strengths.

27 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Psychedelic Drugs Face Their Regulatory Proving Ground

FDA has finalized its clinical trial rulebook for psilocybin, LSD and MDMA, days before Eli Lilly agreed to the sector's largest acquisition at $3.8 billion.

27 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
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Statin Eligibility Reaches 87.5 Million Under New Cholesterol Guidelines

JAMA analyses find 56.6 percent of US adults aged 30 to 79 now qualify for statins under the 2026 dyslipidemia guideline, adding 21.5 million people.

27 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
Old Queens building on the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where the eating-window study team is based. Photo: Zeete / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Time-Restricted Eating Linked to Sharper Cognition in Rutgers Trial

Rutgers researchers report older women who ate within roughly eight daytime hours improved planning and problem-solving skills over six months of dieting.

27 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
Winnie Byanyima, executive director of UNAIDS, photographed at an international conference. Photo: COP PARIS / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
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Rio Conference Opens as HIV Funding Cuts Reshape the Epidemic

UNAIDS opened the Rio conference on Monday with a report quantifying how a 23 per cent collapse in development aid rewrote the global HIV response during 2025.

27 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
A health clinic supporting people living with HIV in the Mukuru settlement of Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: Trocaire / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Lenacapavir Rollout Runs Into the Arithmetic of Supply

With all 600,000 doses available in 2026 already reserved, the debate in Rio has moved from whether twice-yearly injectable prevention works to who can deliver it.

27 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
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Retatrutide Phase 3 Trials Reset the Obesity Drug Race

Eli Lilly's retatrutide cleared two more late-stage studies with up to 22.6 percent weight loss, setting up a US regulatory filing in the first quarter of 2027.

26 Jul 2026 ·5 min read
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Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak Outpaces Congo's Response

Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has killed more than a thousand people in ten weeks, moving faster than any previous epidemic of the virus on record.

26 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
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Guggenheim Joins 31 Sites Flagged as Legionnaires' Cluster Climbs to 60 on Upper East Side

A Legionnaires' cluster in Carnegie Hill and Yorkville grew to about 60 confirmed cases, with the Guggenheim Museum among 31 buildings ordered to clean their cooling towers.

14 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
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State Tallies Race Ahead of CDC as Cyclospora Sickens Thousands Across Half the Country

A summer surge of a parasitic intestinal illness is racing across more than 30 states, with local tallies climbing far above the federal count while investigators hunt for the tainted produce behind it.

14 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
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Vera's Atacicept Meets the FDA Clock as IgA Nephropathy Waits on a First-in-Class Verdict

A biotech racing toward its first commercial product collides with a regulator weighing whether reduced protein in urine is enough to clear a novel kidney drug. The July 7 answer will reshape both.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
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