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Two-thirds of the African continent, according to a new climate vulnerability index, is at increasing risk of extreme shocks among 64 ā€˜most-at-riskā€™ nations.
Climate Health Research

Forty-three Sub-Saharan African nations on a climate ā€˜red zoneā€™ list

HQ Team June 26, 2025: Two-thirds of the African continent, according to a new climate vulnerability index, is at increasing risk of extreme

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At least 20 people died every day in Canada last year due to opioid toxicity, driven by a toxic illegal drug supply, according to government data.
Drugs Health Medical

Last year 20 people died daily due to opioid overdose in Canada: Govt. data

HQ Team June 26, 2025: At least 20 people died every day in Canada last year due to opioid toxicity, driven by a

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Gilead Sciences and Kymera Therapeutics have signed a $750 million license agreement to develop a new cancer medicine to treat breast cancer and other solid tumours.Ā 
Drugs Health Pharma

Gilead, Kymera Therapeutics in $750m pact to make new cancer drug

HQ Team June 25, 2025: Gilead Sciences Inc. and Kymera Therapeutics have signed a $750 million license agreement to develop a new cancer

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People who rely on artificial intelligence chatbots had reduced levels of brain activity and produced ā€œsoullessā€ essays in an MIT study.
Health Medical Research

Large language models reduce brain activity, produce ā€˜soullessā€™ essays: MIT

HQ Team July 25, 2025: People who rely on artificial intelligence chatbots had reduced levels of brain activity and produced ā€œsoullessā€ essays in

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Illumina, Inc. will acquire California-based SomaLogic, a company that is involved in identifying and quantifying proteins within a cell, for $425 million, according to a company statement.
Drugs Health Pharma

Illumina to acquire proteomics company SomaLogic in $425 million all cash deal

HQ Team June 23, 2025: Illumina, Inc. will acquire California-based SomaLogic, a company that is involved in identifying and quantifying proteins within a

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Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk will terminate its agreement with a US-based telehealth company, Hims & Hers Health Inc., to sell its weight-loss drug, Wegovy.
Drugs Health Medical

Novo terminates agreement with Hims & Hers to sell weight-loss drug

HQ Team June 23, 2025: Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk will terminate its agreement with a US-based telehealth company, Hims & Hers Health Inc.,

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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 organ regeneration: US researchers

Ā HQ Team June 23, 2025: US-based researchers at Northeastern University are trying to unravel how axolotls, a small salamander, a smooth-skinned amphibian that

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Private corporations stand to profit from smartphone apps that track menstrual cycles as they provide a ā€˜gold mineā€™ 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

ā€˜Menstrual tracking data being used to control peopleā€™s reproductive livesā€™

HQ Team June 23, 2025: Private corporations stand to profit from smartphone apps that track menstrual cycles as they provide a ā€˜gold mineā€™

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Novo Nordisk A/Sā€™s data from a clinical trial of a weight-loss medicine, treating overweight and obese adult participants, showed patients lost about 23% of their body weight compared to a dummy groupā€™s 2-3%.
Drugs Health Pharma

Novo Nordiskā€™s obesity drug CagriSema cuts weight by 23%

HQ Team June 22, 2025: Novo Nordisk A/Sā€™s data from a clinical trial of a weight-loss medicine, treating overweight and obese adult participants,

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Madrigal Pharmaceuticals EU Limited's therapy to treat adults with noncirrhotic metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) got a conditional marketing authorisation in the European Union.Ā 
Drugs Health Medical

Madrigalā€™s therapy to treat MASH in adults gets EU’s initial nod

HQ Team June 22, 2025: Madrigal Pharmaceuticals EU Limited’s therapy to treat adults with noncirrhotic metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) got a conditional marketing

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