Diseases

‘It’s still working’: More are living with cancer as era of targeted drugs takes hold

Menta “Steve” Wallace and his wife, Jo Linda, at their home in Texas. Menta is taking the experimental pancreatic cancer drug daraxonrasib.

WHO says suspected Ebola cases drop to 116 after hundreds are ruled out

Health workers fighting the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo get dressed in personal protective equipment.

Congo reopens airport at centre of Ebola outbreak

FILE PHOTO: Health workers get dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Evangelical Medical Center, one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/File Photo

Protests over US Ebola site in Kenya kill two, court keeps block

Demonstrators participate during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026. REUTERS/John Muchucha

Five people leave hantavirus quarantine in US state of Nebraska

They were among a group of Americans on a cruise ship that became the centre of a global hantavirus outbreak in May.

J&J drug Erleada reduces risk of prostate cancer spread, death

Prostrate cancer patients who were on Erleada and hormone-blocking therapy went more than six years before requiring subsequent treatment.

Lung cancer patients on drug from China’s Akeso lived longer

The new study by Chinese firm Akeso targeted squamous non-small cell lung cancer, a condition often linked with smoking.

Experimental pancreatic cancer pill doubles survival chances, boosts quality of life

Revolution Medicine’s daraxonrasib drug reduced the time from diagnosis of pancreatic cancer to a patient’s death to 13.2 months versus 6.7 months for those on standard chemotherapy.

Dutch health officials clear hantavirus ship to sail again

The MV Hondius - on which three people died due to hantavirus - will resume its cruise schedule from June 13.

What Bundibugyo Ebola vaccines and treatments are under development

A Uganda Red Cross Society worker in protective gear disinfecting the home of a suspected Ebola victim in Kampala on May 26.

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