News and History
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Moderna Receives Full U.S. FDA Approval for COVID-19 Vaccine, Spikevax, in Children Aged 6 Months Through 11 Years at Increased Risk for COVID-19 Disease
Read More: Moderna Receives Full U.S. FDA Approval for COVID-19 Vaccine, Spikevax, in Children Aged 6 Months Through 11 Years at Increased Risk for COVID-19 DiseaseOn Jul. 10, 2025, Moderna announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the supplemental…
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U.S. Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico
Read More: U.S. Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade due to further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in MexicoOn Jul. 10, 2025, Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) reported a new case…
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FDA approves updated label for Lilly’s Kisunla (donanemab-azbt) with new dosing in early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease
Read More: FDA approves updated label for Lilly’s Kisunla (donanemab-azbt) with new dosing in early symptomatic Alzheimer’s diseaseOn Jul. 9, 2025, Eli Lilly announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a…
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Merck spends $10 billion for Verona, gaining access to its COPD medication
Read More: Merck spends $10 billion for Verona, gaining access to its COPD medicationOn Jul. 9, 2025, pharmaceutical giant Merck is buying Verona Pharma, a company that focuses on respiratory diseases,…
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Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of disease history
Read More: Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of disease historyOn Jul. 9, 2025, a research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and…
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US CDC ends emergency bird flu response as infections decline
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NIH to crack down on excessive publisher fees for publicly funded research
Read More: NIH to crack down on excessive publisher fees for publicly funded researchOn Jul. 8, 2025, the the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced plans to implement a new policy…
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Novartis wins approval for first malaria drug for newborns and babies
Read More: Novartis wins approval for first malaria drug for newborns and babiesOn Jul. 8, 2025, Novartis announces it had received approval in Switzerland for Coartem Baby, which it said…
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Innovative Genomics Institute Announce New Center for Pediatric CRISPR Cures
Read More: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Innovative Genomics Institute Announce New Center for Pediatric CRISPR CuresOn Jul. 8, 2025, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) announced the funding of the…
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Scientists create biological ‘artificial intelligence’ system
Read More: Scientists create biological ‘artificial intelligence’ systemOn Jul. 7, 2025, Australian scientists, including at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, have successfully developed…
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KalVista Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Approval of EKTERLY® (sebetralstat), First and Only Oral On-demand Treatment for Hereditary Angioedema
Read More: KalVista Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Approval of EKTERLY® (sebetralstat), First and Only Oral On-demand Treatment for Hereditary AngioedemaOn Jul. 7, 2025, KalVista Pharmaceuticals announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has approved EKTERLY® (sebetralstat),…
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Cambodia Reports 49 deaths From Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in Current Outbreak
Read More: Cambodia Reports 49 deaths From Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in Current OutbreakOn Jul. 5, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that between January 1 and July 1, 2025,…
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WHO Releases guidelines for clinical management of arboviral diseases: dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever
Read More: WHO Releases guidelines for clinical management of arboviral diseases: dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow feverOn Jul. 4, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the Integrated Guidelines on the Clinical Management of…
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New research confirms that neurons form in the adult brain
Read More: New research confirms that neurons form in the adult brainOn Jul. 3, 2025, a study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the…
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Air Pollution May Contribute to Development of Lung Cancer in Never-smokers, New Study Finds
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First human genome from ancient Egypt sequenced
Read More: First human genome from ancient Egypt sequencedOn Jul. 2, 2025, researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) announces they…
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Anne Wojcicki’s nonprofit gets court approval to buy 23andMe for $305 million
Read More: Anne Wojcicki’s nonprofit gets court approval to buy 23andMe for $305 millionOn Jul. 1, 2025, Anne Wojcicki’s bid to buy 23andMe, the genetic testing company she cofounded nearly 20…
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Wyoming Department of Health reports first Measles Case in Natrona County
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Ancient organisms locked toxic poison away in their cells to survive dangerous environmental changes, study finds
Read More: Ancient organisms locked toxic poison away in their cells to survive dangerous environmental changes, study findsOn Jul. 1, 2025, an international team of researchers led by by the Université de Poitiers and Cardiff…
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AbbVie to Acquire Capstan Therapeutics for $2.1 billion
Read More: AbbVie to Acquire Capstan Therapeutics for $2.1 billionOn Jun. 30, 2025, AbbVie and Capstan Therapeutics announced a definitive agreement under which AbbVie will acquire Capstan,…
