A clinical trial of drugs that can delay puberty can go ahead after a high court judge threw out a legal challenge on Friday. Campaigners had launched the attempt to halt the planned research into puberty blockers, to be run by researchers at King’s College London (KCL), on the grounds that they believed it could…
The man who stabbed Salman Rushdie in the eye on stage in 2022 is standing trial for a second time – this time facing terrorism charges after being found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison last year. Hadi Matar’s federal trial begins in Buffalo, New York on Wednesday, about 70…
The Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is demanding a jury trial as it fends off the Trump administration’s move to seize a long-revered pilgrimage site for a border wall as part of Trump’s hardline crackdown on immigration. The request comes days after a June 28 pilgrimage with Bishop Peter Baldacchino leading more than 500 faithful from the…
Shares of AstraZeneca fell as much as 9% after a late-stage clinical trial for a heart disease failed to meet its target. The medicine, Wainua, did not reach its main goal of reducing deaths and recurrent heart-related emergencies over 140 weeks compared to a placebo, the British drugmaker said in a press release early Thursday….
The current outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo began in May, though transmission had been going undetected for some time. The situation has been declared a public health emergency by the WHO, which says there have been 1,460 confirmed cases in DR Congo, with 150 suspected cases and 452 deaths, as of 1July. According to…
Prison is hardest at sunset. As the thousands of prisoners incarcerated in Delhi’s most infamous jail are cast out of their cells and forced into the dank yard until darkness falls, prisoner number 626714 feels the punishing dread begin to rise. Yet the inmate – better known as Umar Khalid – was recently moved to…
Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi will stand trial for rape, French prosecutors have confirmed. A woman accused the Paris St-Germain defender of raping her at his home in the French capital in 2023, when she was aged 24. The public prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris, began a preliminary investigation in March 2023….
Investing.com–AstraZeneca PLC (LON:) is advancing its oral GLP-1 receptor agonist elecoglipron into a Phase III clinical program after two mid-stage trials demonstrated meaningful weight loss and blood sugar reduction. Shares in the company rose 0.7% in after-hours trade. According to data from the VISTA Phase IIb trial, adults with obesity or who were overweight receiving…
Doctors have hailed “unprecedented” trial results that show a triple-action cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients. In an international trial spanning 11 countries, the injection was offered to patients whose cancer had spread or come back and whose disease had failed to respond to other treatments. The jab, called amivantamab, shrank the tumours…
Over the past three weeks, Elon Musk and his lawyers have argued in a California federal court that Sam Altman – with whom he founded OpenAI – has swindled him out of millions of dollars and reneged on the ChatGPT-maker’s original non-profit mission. Musk and Altman themselves testified in a case in which the future…
