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Doctors rallied outside Colombo’s National Hospital ahead of the 2027 Budget, demanding solutions on allowances, staffing and trade-union rights while pledging to keep patient services running.
The CDC counted 5,182 confirmed US measles cases through November 5, more than twice the 2025 total and the highest annual tally since 1991. A Pan American Health Organization review this week will examine whether the United States still meets the criteria for measles elimination.
Two children in Deir-ez-Zor have developed paralysis from VDPV1. Vaccination has begun, but surveillance and the extent of transmission remain under investigation.
A Queen Mary-led follow-up involving 14 people reports sustained hormone and blood-pressure improvements for up to two years after aldosterone-targeting treatment stopped. The finding is promising, but remains preliminary.
Hillsborough County has extended its dengue-related local emergency through November 12 as mosquito surveillance remains positive across many neighborhoods and state records show 407 locally acquired cases.
A six-point agreement ended Dr Govinda KC’s 25th fast, but the dispute now turns on a defined MBBS seat inquiry, a promised university-law ordinance and unfinished July commitments.
A WHO report estimates that six climate-health measures could avert 1.56 million deaths a year. Its trillions in welfare and fiscal benefits are different measures, built on ambitious global scale-up scenarios.
Thailand's Department of Disease Control reported 470 cumulative mpox cases and three deaths through October 31, 2026. The figures show a continuing surveillance burden, but the latest release leaves important questions about clades, geography and case outcomes unanswered.
One year after the region's first deceased-donor heart transplant, Azerbaijan reports four technically successful operations. More than 50 people are still waiting for a donor heart.
The DRC's Bundibugyo outbreak has crossed 5,000 reported deaths in the latest government figures. Community transmission, conflict, delayed care and gaps in contact tracing complicate containment.
Bangladesh reported 419 dengue-related deaths and 135,000 hospital admissions through October 31. The latest data show serious pressure, but hospital counts are not all infections.