Dengue is a year-round risk in many parts of the world, with outbreaks commonly occurring every 2–5 years. Travelers to risk areas should prevent mosquito bites. Country List : Burkina Faso, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, including the Galápagos Islands, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mali, Mexico, Panama, Sudan, Afghanistan, Cape Verde, Cuba, Ghana, El Salvador, French Polynesia, including the island groups of Society Islands (Tahiti, Moorea, and Bora-Bora), Marquesas Islands (Hiva Oa and Ua Huka), and Austral Islands (Tubuai and Rurutu), Iran, Dominican Republic, Grenada, India, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Philippines, Ethiopia, Saint Lucia, Pakistan, Central African Republic

Reconsider nonessential travel to the Republic of Rwanda, which is experiencing an outbreak of Marburg virus disease.

Parts of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guyana, and Peru (see map) are reporting a low number of cases of Oropouche. Oropouche is spread through the bites of infected midges (small flies) and mosquitoes. Country List : Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Guyana

Many international destinations are reporting increased numbers of cases of measles. Country List : Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo , Senegal, Somalia, Republic of South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Yemen, Zambia, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Mauritania, Lebanon, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Türkiye (Turkey), Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Burundi, Romania, Malaysia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Philippines, Austria, Belarus, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, San Marino, Bhutan, Guinea, Comoros, Kenya, Monaco, United Kingdom, including England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

There is an outbreak of clade I mpox in Central and Eastern Africa. Country List : Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo , Rwanda, Uganda

Medicare Advantage rebates fund extra benefits but increase costs for traditional Medicare enrollees. Could other methods of providing extra benefits improve beneficiary outcomes and Medicare’s finances?

Various ethical concerns arise when clinicians refuse to provide legal medical services. Steps can be taken to ensure that patients have access to care while permitting some conscience-based refusals.

As he explores the uses of psychedelic-assisted therapy, a physician continues to reframe and re-answer a niggling question about the ethos and mindset of practitioners of this new mode of treatment.

Two faculty members at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Christopher Chute, M.D., Dr.P.H., and Jeffrey Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., join 100 new members of NAM.

In a peer-reviewed study believed to be the first of its kind published, a research team led by Johns Hopkins Medicine provides scientific evidence that a healthy diet may reduce the chance of low risk prostate cancer progressing to a more aggressive state in men undergoing active surveillance -- a clinical option in which men with lower risk cancer are carefully monitored for progression in lieu of treatments that could have undesired side effects or complications.

According to findings from a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine and released today in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), transplanting kidneys from deceased donors who had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to recipients with HIV is safe. Perhaps more importantly, the study authors also found that HIV-to-HIV kidney transplants are comparable in effectiveness to those using organs from donors without HIV.