Here's your AnewZ Daily Brief for 17 September 2026. These are the top five stories making headlines in the field of health.
Fiji has declared HIV a national crisis after new diagnoses climbed 27 per cent last year, intensifying concern that an epidemic once concentrated among people who inject drugs is spreading more widely through the Pacific island nation. The government said in a statement that 2,016 people were diagnosed with HIV in 2025 and estimated that one in 60 adults was living with the disease.
The World Health Organization said there were encouraging signs that measures to contain an Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo were gaining ground, though it warned the outbreak was “far from over.” Transmission was declining in the most affected parts of Ituri province, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
Two-year-old Ethiopian twins born joined at the head have been successfully separated by doctors in St. Louis, Missouri, after six major surgeries over several months. The girls travelled to the U.S. in 2025 for treatment, with their final separation procedure lasting nearly 24 hours in February 2026.
The researchers said the human tissue replicated key features of brain development, including the formation of functional neural networks, after being transplanted into mice engineered to lack most of their own cerebral cortex, the brain's outermost layer. They said this is significant because living human brain tissue is essentially inaccessible for research purposes for ethical reasons.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 731 measles cases, up 38 from Monday's update, as the outbreak continued to spread in the state at the center of the nation's worst measles resurgence in decades.
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One person was killed and nearly a dozen hurt in a fresh attack on Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, Saudi authorities reported, a day after a strike claimed by Yemen's Houthis killed 13 people and wounded more than 300.
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said late Monday that it intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi group toward Khamis Mushait in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia hit at least six energy targets in deadly strikes across Ukraine, showing Moscow is unwilling to accept the energy ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The Kremlin on Monday rejected a 60-day ceasefire idea proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to allow his country to hold presidential elections, saying it wanted an overall peace deal instead.
A building at Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in the eastern city of Dhahran was attacked late Tuesday, causing a limited fire, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said on Wednesday. The incident came as fighting between the kingdom and Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi group intensify.
Visitors to Armenia could face temperature screening after a lab worker died from suspected Pneumonic plague in Russia, Yerevan’s Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan told lawmakers on Wednesday, Armenian state news agency Armenpress reported.
Health advice now reaches people through social media, fitness apps, wearable technology and AI. From detoxes and protein-focused diets to skincare and fitness trends, online wellness content is shaping everyday health choices while raising concerns about misinformation and potential risks.
Global cholera deaths reached their highest annual level in more than 20 years in 2025, despite a decline in reported cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Chinese researchers have developed the world’s smallest CT scanner, a portable device designed to produce images of tiny fossils and archaeological relics.
Doctors in St. Louis have successfully separated Ethiopian two-year-old twin girls who were born joined at the head after a months-long series of complex operations culminating in a nearly 25-hour final procedure, doctors said on Wednesday.
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