1. Organon halts endometriosis drug trial as it fails to meet efficacy goal
  2. One child killed or maimed every 15 minutes in Middle East, North Africa
  3. Researchers find serious flaws in clinical trials with adult ADHD patients
  4. EC approves Vertex’s once-daily drug combination to treat cystic fibrosis 
  5. Cincinnati team’s lab-made lung tissue produces its own blood vessels
  6. Amgen’s trial drug for gastric cancer patients helps them live longer
  7. AbbVie to acquire Capstan for $2.1b, gets experimental drug, technology 
  8. WHO says more information needed to track SARS-CoV-2 origins
  9. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, secures $9 billion funding from global donors
  10. Forty-three Sub-Saharan African nations on a climate ‘red zone’ list
  11. Last year 20 people died daily due to opioid overdose in Canada: Govt. data
  12. Gilead, Kymera Therapeutics in $750m pact to make new cancer drug
  13. Large language models reduce brain activity, produce ‘soulless’ essays: MIT
  14. Illumina to acquire proteomics company SomaLogic in $425 million all cash deal
  15. Novo terminates agreement with Hims & Hers to sell weight-loss drug
Organon & Co. has discontinued its clinical development programme for an oral medicine to treat endometriosis-related pain after it failed to meet its main efficacy goal.

Organon halts endometriosis drug trial as it fails to meet efficacy goal

  • July 2, 2025

One child killed or maimed every 15 minutes in Middle East, North Africa

  • July 2, 2025
A majority of clinical research on adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) suffers from serious methodological shortcomings, making it difficult to use the results in practice, according to researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the University of São Paulo.

Researchers find serious flaws in clinical trials with adult ADHD patients

  • July 2, 2025
The European Commission has approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals' drug to treat cystic fibrosis in adults and children above six years of age who have certain genetic mutations related to the disease.

EC approves Vertex’s once-daily drug combination to treat cystic fibrosis 

  • July 2, 2025
Medical experts at Cincinnati Children’s have made an organoid, or ‘organs in a dish,’ of human lung tissue that produces its own blood vessels, according to a statement.
Drugs Health Research

Cincinnati team’s lab-made lung tissue produces its own blood vessels

Amgen Inc.’s drug to treat advanced gastric cancer, in combination with chemotherapy, showed that people lived longer compared to chemotherapy alone, according to a company statement.
Drugs Health Pharma

Amgen’s trial drug for gastric cancer patients helps them live longer

AbbVie Inc. will buy Capstan Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company, for $2.1 billion in cash to acquire the latter’s investigational medicine to treat autoimmune diseases and its delivery technology.
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AbbVie to acquire Capstan for $2.1b, gets experimental drug, technology 

The two hypothetical origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, namely the animal-to-human transmission and a laboratory leak, remain on the table as more information is needed to fully evaluate both, according to the World Health Organization.
Drugs Health Pharma

WHO says more information needed to track SARS-CoV-2 origins

World leaders have pledged $9 billion to support Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, for the next five years after the US administration terminated its funding, arguing the organisation did not take vaccine safety seriously.
Drugs Health Medical

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, secures $9 billion funding from global donors

Research

Research
A majority of clinical research on adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) suffers from serious methodological shortcomings, making it difficult to use the results in practice, according to researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the University of São Paulo.
Drugs Health Research

Researchers find serious flaws in clinical trials with

Medical experts at Cincinnati Children’s have made an organoid, or ‘organs in a dish,’ of human lung tissue that produces its own blood vessels, according to a statement.
Drugs, Health, Research

Cincinnati team’s lab-made lung tissue produces its

  • July 1, 2025
Two-thirds of the African continent, according to a new climate vulnerability index, is at increasing risk of extreme shocks among 64 ‘most-at-risk’ nations.
Climate, Health, Research

Forty-three Sub-Saharan African nations on a climate

  • June 26, 2025
People who rely on artificial intelligence chatbots had reduced levels of brain activity and produced “soulless” essays in an MIT study.
Health, Medical, Research

Large language models reduce brain activity, produce

  • June 25, 2025
US-based researchers at Northeastern University are trying to unravel how axolotls, a small salamander, a smooth-skinned amphibian that often lives in watery or damp places, regrow entire limbs and even organs, and may hold the secret to replicating it in humans.
Climate, Health, Research

Axolotls may hold the key to human

  • June 23, 2025
Private corporations stand to profit from smartphone apps that track menstrual cycles as they provide a ‘gold mine’ for consumer profiling, collecting information on everything from exercise, diet and medication to sexual preferences, hormone levels and contraception use, according to a report.
Health, Medical, Research

‘Menstrual tracking data being used to control

  • June 23, 2025
Appendiceal cancer tripled in Americans born between 1976 and 1984 and quadrupled for those born between 1981 and 1989, according to a study.
Drugs, Health, Research

Sharp rise in appendix cancer among Gen

  • June 12, 2025

Opinion

Men haunted by a Yakshi are not victims of a supernatural encounter. They are confronting disowned parts of themselves. The Yakshi’s irresistible beauty reflects their desire, while her terrifying, bloodthirsty violence symbolises their guilt and fear of unacceptable desires. 
Health, Medical, Opinion

Treat ghosts who lure men to their demise as a guide, and not a villain

Schizophrenia is a complex neurobiological disorder that can have long-term effects. Unfortunately, it remains one of the most heavily stigmatised diagnoses in psychiatry.
Health, Medical, Opinion

A schizophrenic? Warm up to ‘a person with schizophrenia’ 

Studies in India have shown that teachers may unconsciously favour students from higher castes or socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds, awarding them higher marks and occupational expectations, while disadvantaging lower caste students.
Health, Opinion, Research

An illusion of success: Grading bias and its impact on students in India

Caring for the elderly
Drugs, Opinion

Tailored dementia care: Strategies for enhancing quality of life at home

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