The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind pill to lower cholesterol in patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease. The regulator assessed the drug under a programme offering ultra-fast reviews for promising medicines judged to serve the public interest.
The first 1,000 days, from conception to a child's second birthday, form a critical window for lifelong health. Doctors say awareness of monsoon-season health hazards and infections, combined with simple protective steps, can substantially improve outcomes for newborns during the wet months.
Hepatitis C can now be cured in most cases with modern antiviral treatment. Delayed diagnosis remains the central problem, allowing the infection to progress silently and continuing to drive liver disease and deaths worldwide despite the availability of effective therapy.
More than a century ago a small group of chimpanzees on the Spanish island of Tenerife reshaped scientific understanding of intelligence, solving problems through insight rather than trial and error and challenging assumptions about human uniqueness. Their experiments became famous, but the animals' own fate after being moved to Berlin ended in tragedy.
India's first private orbital rocket, Vikram-1, was set for lift-off with a flight sequence spanning 14 distinct phases from launch through orbit injection. The full mission duration from lift-off to payload deployment was planned at 15.46 minutes.