Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

If current trends continue, North America could soon become a hotspot for permanent measles transmission. Canada could lose its measles-free designation this week, and the U.S. may not be far behind.

Bill Gates and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) are reportedly developing plans to expand access to popular weight-loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk A/S’ (NYSE:NVO) Wegovy and Eli Lilly and ...

LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 10 story has been corrected to clarify that the Gates Foundation has not begun work on broad weight-loss drug access in paragraphs 1 and 2; to show that Bill ...

L’Hôpital Universitaire La Paix in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is the only public hospital functioning in the capital. Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, ...

‘Its actions are an affront to U.S. law, our commitment to human rights, and the values we champion throughout the Western Hemisphere.’ U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez is pressing President Donald Trump to ...

Aug 15 (Reuters) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported on Friday an increase in measles cases in the Americas, particularly North America, amid rising deaths from the infection in ...

Cuban doctors arrived at the Havana International Airport after returning from Brazil following Cuba’s suspension of the medical mission in the South American country in 2018. MARCELINO VAZQUEZ ...

A whitepaper from the Python Software Foundation’s (PSF) own Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, sounds the alarm on “phantom dependencies” and offers a solution with the PEP 770 proposal ...

Abstract: With the rapid development of open-source communities, code reuse in Python projects is increasingly common. Developers heavily rely on third-party libraries from the Python central ...