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Congo's Ebola Outbreak Was Spreading in Silence — Officials Are Already Behind
The third-largest Ebola outbreak on record festered undetected for months before authorities acknowledged its scale. Now the WHO chief is flying to Kinshasa, and the math doesn't add up.
Ebola Spreads Beyond Congo's Borders as WHO Celebrates First Recoveries
A rare Sudan strain of Ebola is burning through eastern Congo's Ituri province while Brazil quietly places two patients in isolation. Five survivors are a bright spot — but the outbreak is not contained.
Ebola Pledges Are Evaporating in Real Time as the Body Count Rises
The WHO has declared a global health emergency over a fast-moving Ebola outbreak spanning Congo and Uganda. The world's donors responded with promises — then quietly walked half of them back within days.
Ebola Is Spreading Beyond Congo — And the World Is Barely Paying Attention
Five recoveries in eastern DRC offer a sliver of hope, but suspected cases surfacing in Brazil and Italy signal the window for containment may already be narrowing. The WHO is opening treatment centers while quietly watching the exits.
India Scraps Pen-and-Paper NEET After Another Leak — But the Rot Runs Deeper Than the Format
After cancelling the 2026 medical entrance exam mid-cycle over a fresh paper leak, India's education ministry is switching NEET to computer-based testing. The format change is real. The accountability is not.
Terminal No More? Advanced Cancer Is Becoming a Chronic Disease — And Medicine Isn't Ready
A growing cohort of patients is living years, even decades, with cancers that once carried death sentences measured in months. The medical system still doesn't know what to do with them.
Veracyte's Prosigna Test Promises to Spare Thousands of Women Unnecessary Chemo
A genomic test that can tell early-stage breast cancer patients whether chemotherapy will actually help them just cleared U.S. commercial launch. The question nobody is asking loudly enough: why did it take this long?
India's Tobacco Death Machine Runs Hot While a QR Code Gets Launched
A Coimbatore hospital's spin-wheel awareness gimmick is well-meaning. But with 275 million tobacco users and India shouldering a fifth of the world's oral cancer burden, the real question is why the policy response remains so weak.
The 'Undruggable' Cancer Just Got Drugged — And the Numbers Are Stunning
For 40 years, KRAS mutations drove pancreatic cancer and laughed at every drug thrown at them. A Phase 3 trial just changed that — with survival numbers nobody in oncology expected to see.