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Zhang et al. in Nature Medicine (19 August 2026) trained LiON on 6,443 patients, validated it on 22,251, then ran a single-arm workflow trial on 10,333 consecutive patients. Prospective AUC 0.952 (95% CI 0.942–0.961). AI–human collaboration found 51 previously overlooked lesions, including 15 malignancies. Not a randomised outcomes trial.
WHO AFRO closed poliovirus type 2 outbreaks in Burundi, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, the Republic of Congo and Uganda after OBRA teams reviewed surveillance, lab and epi data from January to June 2026. Closure is technical, not eradication — Madagascar is the caution WHO cites.
The WHO verified that Chile has eliminated leprosy as a public health problem, becoming the first country in the Americas to achieve this milestone.
Data released in January 2026 shows England’s NHS waiting list dropped to 7.29 million patients at the end of December 2025 – the lowest figure since February 2023 – after a record year of elective activity.
CDC’s NCHS final 2024 mortality data put U.S. life expectancy at 79.0 years, up 0.6 from 78.4 in 2023, the highest NCHS has recorded. A second report the same day recorded a 26.2% drop in the drug-overdose death rate.
WHO’s World Health Statistics 2025 report shows long-term gains in healthy life expectancy before COVID-19, but a pandemic-era reversal, slowing progress toward SDG targets, and persistent financial and workforce constraints across health systems.
