FDA Approved Labcorp Diagnostic for Advanced Melanoma
On Aug. 10, 2026, Labcorp announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Labcorp’s PGDx elio®…
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Biotechnology | CDC | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Measles | NIH | Vaccine
CDC adds almost 100 new cases to expanding US measles outbreak
On Aug. 7, 2026, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed 94 new measles infections—most of…
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Africa CDC and WHO call for urgent, community-led action to contain Ebola in the DRC as Infections Increase
On Aug. 6, 2026, The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health…
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Roche Expands Cyclospora Testing Portfolio to Support U.S. Public Health Response
On Aug. 6, 2026, Roche announced the availability of two new flexible and cost-effective research PCR testing options…
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UT-led study finds COVID-19 can awaken hidden viruses throughout the body
On Aug. 5, 2026, researchers at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin in collaboration…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | NIH | Oncology | Organoids
Scientists unveil more than 600 new tissue models of human cancer
On Aug. 5, 2026, an international team led by researchers at MIT’s Koch Institute, the Broad Institute, the…
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Biotechnology | CDC | Diagnostics | Disease
Michigan reports the first 2 US deaths related to a diarrhea-causing parasite
On Aug. 3, 2026, Michigan, state health officials announced that two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak,…
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UCLA scientists build ‘cell villages’ to map the genetics of brain cell fitness
On Aug. 3, 2026, UCLA researchers announced they have grown brain cells from dozens of genetically distinct donors…
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Family History Increases Cancer Risk in BRCA-Tested Patients
On Jul. 30, 2026, a study led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators found that women who test…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | FDA | Oncology
FDA Approves SimpleScreen CRC Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening
On Jul. 28, 2026, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had approved SimpleScreen™ CRC, a…
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Agriculture | Biotechnology | CDC | Diagnostics | Disease | FDA
Michigan reports 9,253 cyclosporiasis cases as infection outbreak expands
On Jul. 27, 2026, Michigan health officials reported 9,253 cases of cyclosporiasis, an increase of 1,077 cases since…
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Ebola infections in DR Congo surge to 3,200, with 1,405 deaths
On Jul. 27, 2026, the number of people infected with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
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Blood Proteins May Predict When Genetically At-Risk People Develop ALS
On Jul. 27, 2026, an international research team led by University of Miami Miller School of Medicine scientists…
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Biotechnology | CDC | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Measles | NIH | Vaccine
The US Reports More measles cases this year than in all of 2025
On Jul. 24, 2026, the number of measles cases in the U.S. surpassed the record-breaking tally for all…
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US CDC links four more states to cyclosporiasis outbreak, Washington Post reports
On Jul. 24, 2026, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked four additional states to…
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U.S. FDA investigates another cyclosporiasis outbreak
On Jul. 22, 2026, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is investigating a new outbreak…
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OraSure Receives Emergency Use Authorization for Second Generation Ebola Test
On Jul. 21, 2026, OraSure Technologies announced that it has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S….
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Ebola death toll in Congo Exceeds 930, including dozens of health workers
On Jul. 20, 2026, the death toll in Congo’s Ebola outbreak has risen to at least 930, the…
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Tempus to Acquire Personalis for $1.5 Billion
On Jul. 20, 2026, Tempus AI, a technology company leading the adoption of AI to advance precision medicine…
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Scientists map how the flu virus rewires the human cell from the inside
On Jul. 20, 2026, researchers at EMBL Hamburg and collaborators at the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology…
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U.S. Army receive new medical equipment to detect TBIs faster
On Jul. 16, 2026, U.S. Army medical leaders in Europe announced they were fielding a new handheld diagnostic…
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50,000-year-old DNA from South African antelope rewrites limits of ancient DNA preservation
On Jul. 15, 2026, scientists announced recovering ancient DNA from a 50,000-year-old antelope tooth found in South Africa,…
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CDC Reports 1,645 confirmed Cyclosporiasis Cases in Multiple U.S. States, 600% increase over Last Year
On Jul. 14, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it is notifying clinicians, public health…
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NYC Health Department Releases List of Buildings Ordered To Clean and Disinfect Their Cooling Towers for Legionnaires Disease
On Jul. 10, 2026, The NYC Health Department released, for the first time, a preliminary list of 31…
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U.S. Cyclospora cases mount as CDC lags on tracking
On Jul. 9, 2026, the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy reported that in parts of the…
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Researchers discover new form of hereditary prostate cancer
On July 9, 2026, researchers at the University of British Columbia announced they have identified a new form of hereditary…
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New genomic method to track disease outbreaks globally
On Jul. 9, 2026, Wellcome Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators announced Phylo-Plex, a new computational method to…
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Ebola continues to spread in DRC as death toll passes 500, WHO warns
On Jul. 7, 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the outbreak of the deadly Bundibugyo species of…
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Visby Medical Receives FDA Clearance for the First At-Home PCR for Multiple Respiratory Viruses
On Jul. 2, 2026, Visby Medical, the at-home diagnostics company, announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance…
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Alzheimer’s proteins in blood linked to midlife cognition
On Jul. 1, 2026, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported that a study found that people in…
