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Indonesia is increasing food safety checks after nearly 700 schoolchildren became sick from free school meals in Yogyakarta this week. The students were part of President Prabowo Subianto’s new nationwide free-meal programme, created to improve child nutrition and tackle hunger. Sudden Illness Triggers Alarm The children reported nausea, stomach pain, and vomiting shortly after eating…
CSL Ltd, Australia’s major vaccine-maker, is collaborating with Saudi Arabia to develop advanced flu vaccines. Together with the Kingdom’s pharmaceutical manufacturing group, CSL’s vaccine division will focus on seasonal influenza tools. The partnership aims to boost local production in Saudi Arabia and improve access across the Gulf region. CSL already supplies flu vaccines globally and…
Authorities in Delhi attempted cloud seeding this week to fight the city’s severe air pollution, but the trial did not produce rain due to low moisture in the air. Cloud seeding involves releasing particles like silver iodide into clouds to stimulate rainfall. On Tuesday, a Cessna aircraft released silver iodide and sodium chloride over several…
Merck and Eisai have stopped a major late-stage trial for their liver cancer treatment after early results showed the drug combination was unlikely to improve patient survival. The two companies were testing Keytruda, Merck’s top immunotherapy drug, with Eisai’s cancer medicine Lenvima. The goal was to see whether the combination could help patients with hepatocellular…
British pharmaceutical giant GSK has lifted its full-year 2025 guidance after a strong third quarter. Sales jumped thanks to double-digit growth in its HIV and cancer drug portfolios. The company reported Q3 revenue of about £8.55 billion, beating market expectations. Core earnings per share reached 55 pence, up significantly from the same quarter last year. …
Cases of serious colon disorder are rising sharply among Americans under age 50, researchers say. An analysis of more than 5.2 million hospital stays for diverticulitis between 2005 and 2020 found that the share of younger patients with complicated disease rose from 18.5% to 28.2%. These younger patients faced higher treatment risks: they had 29%…
A 67-year-old man named Tim Andrews from New Hampshire has set a new record by living 271 days with a gene-edited pig kidney before it was removed, doctors say. The transplant occurred on January 25, 2025, at Massachusetts General Hospital. Andrews had been on dialysis for more than two years because of end-stage kidney disease…
UK health officials are urging gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) to get vaccinated against mpox after a new strain began spreading in Europe. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says a small number of infections from a strain called clade Ib have been found in Spain, Italy, Portugal, the…
A new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that one longer walk each day benefits your heart more than several short strolls — especially for people who don’t exercise much. Why Walk Longer? Researchers found that walking at least 15 minutes non-stop — around 1,500 steps in one go — gives the heart…
A new Alzheimer’s drug pill has shown encouraging results in a late-stage trial for people with a high genetic risk of the disease. The pill, called ALZ-801 (valiltramiprosate), is designed for people who carry two copies of the APOE4 gene. This group is known to have the highest chance of developing Alzheimer’s and often declines…
