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A malaria vaccine price deal could protect up to one million more children.

The planned 40% price cut could save about $50 million over three years.

SOURCEGavi / UNICEF
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India capped trade margins on 137 cancer drugs, with lower prices due November 9.

The rule targets excessive distribution markups while requiring manufacturers to maintain supply.

SOURCEPress Information Bureau of India / NPPA
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A simpler quantum sensor design kept its sensitivity at true zero.

A few strategically bare loops replaced a forest of compromises.

SOURCEAdelaide University / Physical Review Applied
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One extra year of school lowered dementia diagnoses nearly 50 years later.

A school-leaving law became rare causal evidence that social policy can shape brain health decades later.

SOURCENIH / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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A precision T-cell therapy stalled hard-to-treat cancers in 16 of 27 patients.

A more precise signal gave exhausted treatment paths one more opening.

SOURCENIH / Nature Medicine
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An AI diagnostic system hit 83% on complex cases—by asking one question at a time.

The system reasoned through 304 difficult cases step by step, but the result is still a benchmark—not patient care.

SOURCEScience / Microsoft AI
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Physicists trapped one particle of antimatter for months.

One positron. Months of control. A new precision tool for fundamental physics.

SOURCENorthwestern University / Physical Review Letters
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Scientists separated psilocybin's brain rewiring from its hallucinatory pathway—in mice.

A circuit map hints that plasticity and hallucination may not be inseparable.

SOURCEUC Santa Cruz / Nature Neuroscience
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A custom mRNA cancer vaccine cut melanoma relapse or death by 42%.

One tumor. One recipe. A 42% lower relative risk.

SOURCEAssociated Press / Merck & Moderna
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Six months in space left astronauts' hearts ready for Mars gravity.

Exercise kept the heart inside the Mars envelope.

SOURCECirculation / PubMed
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The FDA approved the first antisense treatment for chronic Hepatitis B.

In trials, 24% met treatment-stopping criteria versus none on placebo; 19% stayed controlled 24 weeks after stopping all therapy.

SOURCEU.S. Food and Drug Administration
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FDA approved an immunotherapy that may let some rectal-cancer patients skip surgery.

In an ongoing trial, nearly three-quarters had not needed the usual treatments after a median of more than two years.

SOURCEU.S. Food and Drug Administration
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A year of step data flagged future brain-health risk.

The long pattern—not one day's reading—may help clinicians spot who needs earlier attention.

SOURCEAmerican Neurological Association / Newswise
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One health system cut anesthetic emissions 45%—and spending nearly 40%.

Six hospitals changed everyday anesthesia practice, lowering estimated emissions and anesthetic spending without worsening tracked outcomes.

SOURCEAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists
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Roman's main camera is seeing nearly 30% sharper than expected.

NASA's newly launched space telescope has cleared an early commissioning test with more optical precision than its requirement demanded.

SOURCENASA
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A major Alzheimer's prevention trial has randomized its first participant.

The study will test whether clearing amyloid, then adding a second mechanism, can delay inherited Alzheimer's.

SOURCEBanner Health
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EU regulators backed a new pancreatic-cancer pill.

An EMA committee recommended a once-daily oral RAS inhibitor for eligible adults with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

SOURCEEuropean Medicines Agency
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Ghana cut malaria deaths 98%.

Reported malaria deaths fell from 3,259 in 2011 to 52 in 2025.

SOURCEGhana Health Service
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A tiny sensor gave people with type 2 diabetes five more hours in range.

A randomized trial found continuous glucose monitoring added about five hours a day in the target range—even without insulin.

SOURCENew England Journal of Medicine
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Vaccines prevented 2.2 million future deaths in one year.

The future changed 2.2 million times.

SOURCEGavi, the Vaccine Alliance
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A Swedish CAR-T trial saw complete responses in 8 of 12 patients.

Eight complete responses. Twelve patients.

SOURCEElicera Therapeutics
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An experimental drug shielded celiac patients during a gluten challenge.

A 32-person study found less injury and fewer symptoms—but it is still early.

SOURCEReuters / AnaptysBio
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Patient feedback cut an epilepsy monitor’s false alarms by about 80%.

A monitor improved when patients could explain what its sensors got wrong.

SOURCENational Institutes of Health / Nature Medicine
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River blindness transmission is gone from 11 of 13 Americas foci.

A new WHO review says transmission now remains only in the remote cross-border Yanomami Focus Area shared by Brazil and Venezuela.

SOURCEWorld Health Organization
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