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Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oswego, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, Yates, Rockland, Nassau, Herkimer, Montgomery, Ostego, Essex, Lewis, Chemung, Chenango, Steuben, Tioga, Allegany, Chautauqua, and Erie. If you’re thinking: that’s a long list of counties in New York, you’re right. That’s 22 of New York’s 62 counties. And this year alone, they’ve all had measles cases. This week on the Disabilities Beat, we speak with experts on what measles is, why cases are rising in New York, the risks, and what the state is doing. TRANSCRIPTThis is a rush transcript produced by a contractor and may be updated over time to be more accurate. Emyle Watkins:Hi, I'm Emyle Watkins, and this is the Disabilities Beat. There are 62 counties in New York State. 22 of them have had recorded measles cases this year alone. Erie and Chautauqua counties are among them. Dr. John Sellick:I get the text message that we think we might have another measles, then I'm concerned that did this get missed along the way and are we going to start seeing secondary cases? Emyle Watkins:That's Dr. John Sellick, Kaleida Health's hospital epidemiologist. He says most people have never seen measles firsthand.

| CBC News | Posted: October 14, 2026 9:00 AM | Last Updated: October 14A vaccine against the illness that killed 3-week-old Lupine Genest is in clinical trialsMedia | N. S. couple raising money for hospital that tried to save their daughterCaption: Carly Wedge and Alexandre Genest are touring the province on their bicycles months after the death of their baby girl — working through their grief and spreading the word about a Group B Streptococcus vaccine that’s in development. The CBC's Taryn Grant has the story. Open full embed in new tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. The pregnancy, the birth and the early days of parenthood were the fulfilment of their dreams. “She was pretty lively,” said Alexandre Genest, remembering his daughter, Lupine, as an infant. “She had long hair already.”“And big, sparkly eyes,” added his wife, Carly Wedge, Lupine’s mom. But after just three weeks with their "perfectly healthy" baby, the new parents were plunged into their worst nightmare. At their home on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Lupine suddenly turned ill, and her parents took her to the nearby regional hospital.

As the respiratory illness season approaches, local health officials are encouraging Chatham-Kent residents to get vaccinated. Chatham-Kent Public Health said respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19, influenza (flu), and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) circulate throughout Chatham-Kent during the fall and winter months.

According to the Quebec Cancer Foundation, there were an estimated 9,505 cases of breast cancer in 2025 in the province. Breast cancer is very curable in Quebec, especially when caught early. Overall, about 85 to 89 per cent of people diagnosed with are long-term survivors, and early detection means that 70 to 82 per cent of breast cancers that are diagnosed at an early stage have the highest cure rates. The keyword here is “early,” something that is possible, given the existing research, but yet to be integrated into the Quebec healthcare system. A new screening process called the PERSPECTIVE project (PErsonalized Risk Stratification for Prevention and Early deteCTIon of breast cancer), which was partially funded by the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation (QBCF), uses a saliva test combined with a lifestyle and family history questionnaire to assess a woman’s personalized risk of developing breast cancer. Currently, Quebec uses age alone to determine when a person should get a mammogram, starting at 50. Nine provinces in Canada recommend and cover regular screening mammograms for people starting at age 40.

Doctors' prescribing habits are heavily influenced by payments, gifts, and free meals from pharmaceutical companies, leading to more expensive, less appropriate and more drugs being prescribed, a new Cochrane review finds. This can seriously harm both individual patients and health systems. Pharmaceutical companies use a variety of strategies to market and promote their drugs. This can include one-on-one visits by sales reps to doctors' offices and hospitals, gifts and payments including for example paid meals, travel costs to conferences, entertainment, consulting fees, honoraria for participation in advisory boards, and advertising.

People experience the steepest increases in pain before age 55, rather than in later life as might be expected, a new study led by McGill University researchers has found. Published in Nature Medicine, the study analyzed self-reported pain data from more than 6.1 million people across 118 countries and territories.

Burnout is a syndrome that can develop as a result of chronic work-related stress that is not properly managed. It can affect workers' health, the quality of care they provide and the sustainability of services. It involves physical and emotional exhaustion and can affect anyone working in any sector, although it is particularly common among healthcare professionals due to high work and emotional demands, time pressure, bureaucracy, limited resources, a poor work-life balance and the perception of being undervalued. These factors can lead to emotional exhaustion, psychological disengagement from their work and reduced job satisfaction. The study, titled Characterization of healthcare professionals with low levels of occupational burnout, has identified protective factors against burnout in healthcare professionals. The research was promoted by the Social Observatory and led by Dr Oriol Yuguero of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya's (UOC) eHealth Centre and Anna Mitjans, project coordinator at the Galatea Foundation, with the collaboration of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the University of Lleida (UdL) and the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS).

Education Editor Jess Taylor-Calhoun shares inclusive writing tips for communicators, clinicians, physicians and researchers, working in health care settings. As an editor, I see how small word changes can make a big difference.

image: Professor Chak-sing Lau (third from right) receives the baton from Professor Lukoye Atwoli (third from left) of Aga Khan University (host of World Health Summit 2026 Regional Meeting) as HKUMed prepares to host the 2027 Regional Meeting for the first time in Hong Kong, China. The LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) officially received the baton to host the World Health Summit (WHS) Regional Meeting 2027, Hong Kong, China, at the WHS Opening Night in Berlin, Germany, on 11 October 2026. The handover from Nairobi, the 2026 Regional Meeting host, set the stage for Hong Kong, China, to host this leading international platform for global health dialogue for the first time.

As fighting intensifies across parts of Yemen, hospitals are struggling to cope with growing numbers of war-wounded patients while an already fragile health system faces critical shortages of medical supplies, staff and specialized care. All front lines have witnessed an unprecedented surge in weapon-wounded cases; Marib, Taiz and the Red Sea Coast have some of the highest casualty burdens. Hospitals and health facilities are overwhelmed. Some front-line facilities recorded over 700 admissions during a single week. Mass casualty influxes are increasingly frequent.