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GSK Plc will acquire Boston Pharmaceutical’s investigational lead asset, efimosfermin alfa, to treat serious liver diseases, for $2 billion in cash.
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GSK to buy Boston’s lead drug asset for liver disease for $2 billion in cash

HQ Team May 14, 2025: GSK Plc will acquire Boston Pharmaceutical’s investigational lead asset, efimosfermin alfa, to treat serious liver diseases, for $2

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Mice treated with a special protein called Klotho for a year showed marked improvements in longevity and physical health, opening up potential therapies for humans.
Drugs Health Research

Spanish researchers redesign protein to improve lifespan, brain power in mice

HQ Team May 14, 2025: Mice treated with a special protein called Klotho for a year showed marked improvements in longevity and physical

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UN relief chief Tom Fletcher has told the Security Council that the ambassadors must finally act decisively "to prevent genocide" and ensure respect for international law in Gaza, where it has been 10 weeks since humanitarian aid has been delivered.
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Security Council must act to prevent ‘genocide’ in Gaza: UN relief chief says

HQ Team May 14, 2025: UN relief chief Tom Fletcher has told the Security Council that the ambassadors must finally act decisively “to

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Bonobos, often called pygmy chimpanzees, use the human equivalent of word compounds and phrasings, allowing Harvard researchers to assemble a “dictionary” on animal communication.
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Bonobo talk bears a striking similarity to human speech: Harvard researchers

HQ Team May 13, 2025: Bonobos, often called pygmy chimpanzees, use the human equivalent of word compounds and phrasings, allowing Harvard researchers to

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Antibiotic use in girls in the first year of life, especially in the first three months, may be linked to the earlier onset of puberty, a study by South Korean researchers finds.
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Antibiotic use in girls may trigger early onset of puberty: Study

 HQ Team May 13, 2025: Antibiotic use in girls in the first year of life, especially in the first three months, may be

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Anixa Biosciences, Inc., announced that its partner Cleveland Clinic has begun enrolling subjects in a treatment arm to evaluate the combination of the company's breast cancer vaccine with Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) immunotherapy.
Drugs Research

AstraZeneca’s blood cancer combination drug shows positive results in end trial

HQ Team May 13, 2025: AstraZeneca’s POTOMAC Phase III trial has demonstrated that combining Imfinzi (durvalumab) with standard Bacillus Calmette-GuĂ©rin (BCG) therapy significantly improves disease-free survival (DFS) in patients

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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

By Aparna S. May 13, 2025: Soon after board exam results are declared each year in Kerala, streets are adorned with brightly colored

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The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the first at-home cervical cancer screening test in the US, according to a statement from Teal Health, its maker.
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US approves first at-home cervical cancer screening from Teal Health

HQ Team May 12, 2025: The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the first at-home cervical cancer screening test in the US, according

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Australia’s carbon offset scheme, a central feature of climate policy in the country for two decades, to regenerate forests has had negligible impact on woody vegetation cover and carbon sequestration, a study found.
Climate Health Research

Wealthiest 10% drive global warming while the poorest suffer

HQ Team May 12, 2025: The world’s richest 10% are responsible for nearly two-thirds of the observed global warming since 1990, a study

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At least 78% of the world’s nurses are concentrated in countries representing 49% of the population, according to a global nursing report published by the World Health Organization and the International Council of Nurses.
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Global health goals face risks due to inequities in nursing profession: WHO

HQ Team May 12, 2025: At least 78% of the world’s nurses are concentrated in countries representing 49% of the population, according to

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