Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Monday that at least one person in the northwest of the ...

"We would expect further cases in coming days as disease surveillance improves." Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

To make matters worse, samples taken from the individual suggest that the virus mutated within the patient after infection—meaning it had begun to adapt to infect humans better—raising new questions ...

Abuhelwa Z, Ali NHA, Xie Z, et al. The argument for targeted therapy in IDH1 mutated myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS): poor outcomes post-hypomethylating agent failure in higher risk MDS and ...

“Treating advanced EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer presents a significant challenge due to the limited efficacy of available treatments once the disease has progressed following front-line ...

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China has detected the new mutated clade 1b strain of mpox for the first time as the outbreak, declared a global health emergency by the WHO, continues to spread. The Centre for Disease Control and ...

Groundbreaking approval provides new hope for patients in England and Wales The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has given a positive recommendation for Lynparza (olaparib) for ...

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have discovered how a mutated gene kicks off a dangerous chain of events during blood cell production. "We know that many diseases—and all ...