AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoCancer Care: Pope Leo XIV is recovering after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung for cancer; he is walking, eating and beginning respiratory therapy as doctors await pathology results. Outbreak Fallout: Fear of Ebola is keeping women and children from care in eastern Congo. Maternal deaths in Ituri rose nearly 70% from May to July year over year, while childhood immunisation rates are falling. Rare Disease: A gene therapy recently approved by the FDA offers new hope for Sanfilippo syndrome, a degenerative disease; one boy treated in a trial is thriving, though his family says he is not cured. Experts caution that newborn screening alone cannot end long diagnostic delays. Hospital Safety: At least 27 students and a teacher were killed when a school roof collapsed in Pakistan’s Peshawar city; more than 30 people were injured. Long-Term Effects: A study of nearly 30,000 older adults found hospital delirium was linked to higher rates of later psychotic and bipolar disorders. Parkinson’s Research: Mission Therapeutics has dosed the first patient in an early-stage trial of an experimental treatment designed to slow the disease’s progression.
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