Wednesday, October 7, 2026
The top medical stories of the day, as they ran.
Morning edition
15 stories
- 1WHO assesses low outbreak risk after Russian lab worker diesInfectious disease · 10 outlets
- 2New York declares measles emergency as cases rise across the regionOutbreaks · 5 outlets
- 3Kenya confirms first imported Ebola case after patient diesOutbreaks · 2 outlets
- 4Caribou Biosciences halts clinical programs and plans to shut downIndustry · 3 outlets
- 5KFF poll finds 66 percent support for Medicare for AllHealth policy · 3 outlets
- 6AbbVie and Genmab report Epkinly trial success in frontline DLBCLDrugs and FDA · 2 outlets
- 7WHO advises against obesity drugs and surgery for children under 10Diabetes and obesity · 2 outlets
- 8ArriVent’s phase 3 lung cancer trial misses primary endpointCancer · 3 outlets
- 9CooperSurgical recalls INCA infant CPAP sets over loose connectionsMedical devices · 1 outlet
- 10CMS expands joint replacement model and lists 2,217 participating hospitalsMedicare and Medicaid · 2 outlets
- 11Utah approves three health AI pilots for prescriptions and women’s healthHealth policy · 2 outlets
- 12Early-life sugar rationing linked to lower dementia riskBrain health · 2 outlets
- 13Nova Biomedical corrects StatStrip glucose meters over wrong-patient riskMedical devices · 1 outlet
- 14FDA authorizes first standalone robotic blood-draw device for adultsMedical devices · 1 outlet
- 15Vitruvias Therapeutics recalls superpotent thyroid tabletsDrug safety · 1 outlet
Evening edition
19 stories
- 1WHO and U.S. officials seek answers about Russian lab worker’s deathInfectious disease · 13 outlets
- 2Caribou halts two cancer cell therapies as it weighs strategic optionsIndustry · 5 outlets
- 3Expert praises Kenya’s response to its first Ebola caseOutbreaks · 3 outlets
- 4MimiVax vaccine misses primary endpoint in glioblastoma trialCancer · 3 outlets
- 5New York declares measles emergency as cases rise across the regionOutbreaks · 2 outlets
- 6WHO advises against obesity drugs and surgery for children under 10Diabetes and obesity · 2 outlets
- 7Dutch court blocks Merck's subcutaneous Keytruda in eight European countriesDrugs and FDA · 3 outlets
- 8Nuvig halts a Phase 2 trial of its lead autoimmune drugResearch · 2 outlets
- 9Optogenetic gene therapy improved vision in some people with inherited blindnessResearch · 3 outlets
- 10KFF poll finds 66 percent support for Medicare for AllHealth policy · 3 outlets
- 11PhRMA sues Trump administration over Medicare drug-pricing pilotMedicare and Medicaid · 2 outlets
- 12Kagan and Soai win Nobel chemistry prize for mirror-image molecule researchResearch · 2 outlets
- 13Study finds fewer emergency visits among foreign-born patients after ICE raidsPublic health · 2 outlets
- 14Senators question Kennedy's changes to preventive-services task forceHealth policy · 2 outlets
- 15Utah approves three health AI pilots for prescriptions and women’s healthHealth policy · 2 outlets
- 16Teladoc adds AI scribing and camera-based vital monitoring to Solo platformIndustry · 3 outlets
- 17Study finds U.S. cardiovascular death declines slowed, disparities persistedResearch · 2 outlets
- 18ONS data show 1.1 million Britons who never smoked now vapePublic health · 2 outlets
- 19AstraZeneca opens new research and development site in CambridgeIndustry · 2 outlets