A new daily pill has significantly extended survival for people with advanced pancreatic cancer in the United States, offering fresh hope against one of the deadliest forms of the disease.
Malaria deaths have fallen dramatically in Papua New Guinea, bringing the country closer to its goal of eliminating malaria fatalities and improving public health outcomes nationwide.
Adults with type 2 diabetes in the United States can now use the world’s first once-weekly basal insulin injection, reducing the number of annual insulin shots from 365 to 52.
In Australia, trachoma has been eliminated as a public health problem, ending the presence of a preventable disease that once disproportionately affected remote communities.
In Algeria, trachoma—the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness—has been eliminated as a public health problem after decades of sustained national effort.
England is introducing a new injectable cancer immunotherapy that delivers treatment in minutes, improving patient experience while freeing up hospital capacity.
Sweden has demonstrated that a single gene therapy injection can restore hearing in people born with a genetic form of deafness, offering a potential long-term treatment.
South Africa’s HPV vaccination programme has cut infections of the most dangerous virus types by more than 80% in teenage girls, marking a major step toward preventing cervical cancer in a high-risk population.
A personalised immune cell therapy has successfully treated three life-threatening autoimmune diseases in a single patient, offering new hope for tackling complex immune disorders.
Spain has successfully kept a human uterus alive outside the body for 24 hours, opening new possibilities for studying fertility, pregnancy and uterine diseases.
