Britain detects two more cases of mpox variant, risk ‘remains low’
Britain has detected two cases of Clade Ib mpox, a variant, in household contacts of the first case, taking the total to three.
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Global glaciers suffer largest mass loss in 50 yrs, 2023 driest for rivers
Glaciers suffered the largest mass loss in 50 years as last year marked the driest for global rivers in 33 years, according to.
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Gilead signs six global pacts to make, sell generic HIV preventive drug
Gilead Sciences, Inc. has signed non-exclusive, royalty-free voluntary licensing agreements with six pharmaceutical makers to make and sell its generic lenacapavir drug for the prevention.
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Kezar Life Sciences halts mid-stage lupus nephritis trial after four people die
Kezar Life Sciences Inc., a US-based biotechnology company, has stopped a trial in patients with a type of kidney disease after four people.
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Antimicrobial resistance may kill 39.1 million people by 2050: GRAM
Antibiotic-resistant infections may kill 39.1 million people in the next 25 years equating to three deaths a minute, a global study finds.
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SDG targets in danger as paychecks shrink globally, ILO says
Falling global wages, possibly driven by automation and artificial intelligence, will slow the pace of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as the 2030.
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First batch of Bavarian Nordic’s mpox vaccines in Congo by Sept. 5
The World Health Organization expects the first delivery of mpox vaccines, made by Bavarian Nordic and donated by the European Union, today in.
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Eli Lilly to license rheumatoid drug-making technology to Egypt’s EVA
Eli Lilly will license manufacturing know-how of its rheumatoid arthritis baricitinib drug, branded as Olumiant, to Egypt’s EVA Pharma to expand its access to.
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Cholera killed 4,000 people last year, current global risk of disease ‘high’
Cholera cases rose 13% and deaths by 71% in 2023 compared to a year earlier as a shortage of oral vaccines continues and.
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New mpox virus strain, sexual contact, behind a surge in cases: WHO
A new strain of monkeypox virus named as MPXV clade Ib, which originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo recently, is behind.