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Global health bodies in more than 100 nations are uniting to vaccinate children after COVID-19 waves severed supplies, shuttered clinics, and overburdened health services.
Drugs Health

US measles cases hit a 35-year high at 2,295

HQ Team July 22, 2026: The United States has recorded 2,295 measles cases,  the highest total in 35 years. The raw number is.

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Eli Lilly and Company will acquire SiteOne Therapeutics, Inc. for $1 billion to get access to an inhibitor that may cure chronic pain without using opioids.
Drugs

FDA updated drug labelling regulations guide (2026)

HQ Team July 21, 2026: Every prescription drug sold in the United States carries labelling that the FDA treats as a legal document,.

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US regulator, the FDA has approved Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s supplemental new drug application for treating chronic hepatitis B virus in paediatric patients six years of age and older.
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Scientists map 641 new schizophrenia genes using “Social Network” for DNA

HQ Team June 24,2026: Scientists have discovered 641 previously unknown genes linked to schizophrenia, using a revolutionary method that maps how genes “talk” to.

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The FDA has warned consumers against the use of fast-act rheum and UA-Block capsules used to treat inflammation and joint pains as it contains substances that raise blood sugar, heart attacks, and stroke.
Drugs

New procedure, GAE, halves knee pain in osteoarthritis patients

HQ Team June 23, 2026: A minimally invasive procedure that blocks the small blood vessels supplying an arthritic knee can reduce pain by.

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India's Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has got the final approval by the USFDA for its generic prochlorperazine maleate tablets, the generic version of compazine of GlaxoSmithKline.
Drugs

Who is buying India’s hospitals and what it means for its 1.4 Billion people?

HQ Team Editor’s Note: The need for this story arose out of discussions on healthcare access difficulties in the developed world. Horror stories.

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Merck's COVID-19 pill does not stop the risk of prevention of the virus spreading to others in a household, the company stated.
Drugs

FDA approves Utebzi, first carbapenem pill for complicated UTIs

HQ Team June 17, 2026: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Utebzi (tebipenem pivoxil), an antibiotic pill for people suffering from.

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Obesity is a health risk that needs to be tackled worldwide
Drugs Health

Retatrutide trial shows 30% body weight loss, rivalling bariatric surgery results

HQ Team June 17, 2026: Retatrutide, an experimental “triple-agonist” weight-loss drug developed by Eli Lilly, helped patients lose nearly a third of their.

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GSK Plc., a British global pharmaceutical company, announced the FDA had approved an oral drug to treat anaemia arising from chronic kidney disease in patients who have been on dialysis for four months.
Drugs Pharma

FDA expands approval of kidney cancer drug to earlier-stage patients

HQ Team June 16, 2026: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded approval of belzutifan, a first-in-class kidney cancer drug, to.

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The World Health Organization has posted a repository of more than 450 psychoactive drugs listing their abuses, harms, and dependence.
Drugs Health

Experimental Fentanyl vaccine prevents drug and variants from reaching brain

HQ Team June 15, 2026: Researchers at Scripps Research in California have developed an experimental vaccine that reduced fentanyl levels in the brains.

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Granules India announced the US Food & Drug Administration (US FDA) had approved an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for losartan potassium tablets to treat high blood pressure.
Drugs

Gilead and Merck’s once-weekly HIV pill passes two major trials

HQ Team June 10, 2026: Pharmaceutical giants Gilead Sciences and Merck announced that a once-weekly, single-tablet HIV treatment made up of islatravir and.

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