Surging demand for weight loss and diabetes drugs leaves the pharmaceutical sector at risk from a “bubble effect” as profitability soars, new research suggests. Demand for the likes of Wegovy and Zepbound has driven research and development returns to their highest level in years, but a report published by Deloitte on Monday suggests this is…
Medications used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, including well-known brands like Ozempic and Wegovy, may offer unexpected mental health benefits. These drugs belong to a class called GLP-1 receptor agonists, and a large new study found they are linked to fewer psychiatric hospital visits and less time off work due to mental health…
A potential pullback by Middle East sovereign wealth funds could drain hundreds of billions of dollars from the artificial intelligence boom and threaten key data center projects, according to tech investor Jack Selby. Middle East investors — including sovereign wealth funds and government entities — account for roughly a quarter of global investments committed to…
Risk in cognitive operations is not additive. It is multiplicative. A missile strike has a defined blast radius, effects are immediate, observable, and bounded. Cognitive operations have none of these characteristics. Messages spread through networks in ways no one fully controls. Attribution may be ambiguous or deliberately obscured. Cognitive effects may unfold over weeks, months,…
The strikes were the first since the two agreed to halt the violence at peace talks last month. Published On 27 Apr 202627 Apr 2026 Pakistan and Afghanistan have accused one another of launching new cross-border attacks. Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said on Monday that four people were killed in attacks in the eastern Kunar province….
A major new study published in Nature Health has found a strong connection between environmental exposure to agricultural pesticides and an increased risk of cancer. By combining environmental monitoring, national cancer registry data, and biological research, scientists from the IRD, Institut Pasteur, University of Toulouse, and the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN) in Peru…
The removal of the current legal basis enabling voluntary detection by online platforms could have far-reaching implications for safeguarding children.Last year alone, Europol processed around 1.1 million of so-called CyberTips, originating from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), of relevance to 24 European countries. CyberTips contain multiple entities (files, videos, photos etc.)…
Shorouk Express Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Tattoos can cause lifelong changes to the body’s immunity as well as affect vaccine responses, according to a new study. An international team of…
Shorouk Express The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has raised concern that the elevated level of avian influenza poses a greater risk of human exposure. On Monday (24 November), the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) reported that highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses have been detected in wild birds across 26 European…
CISA warns agencies failed to properly patch two actively exploited Cisco firewall vulnerabilitiesCVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362 were linked to the ArcaneDoor campaign targeting government networksOver 32,000 devices remain vulnerable despite emergency directives and patching efforts The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies (FCEB) that some of them failed…
