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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday

WORLD / Science & Health

Jan 12, 2025

Blue Origin rocket set to debut in crucial SpaceX challenge

By Loren Grush

New Glenn, originally intended to launch as early as 2020, is set to lift off as soon as Monday out of Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Cancer patient Anne Maldzinski was given an experimental therapy developed by French biotech MaaT Pharma through an early access program. The effect was dramatic.

WORLD / Science & Health

Jan 9, 2025

Drug from bowel bacteria helps blood cancer patients facing deadly complication

By Jason Gale and Thomas Gibson

A burgeoning field of therapies is harnessing the power of the microbiome to treat and potentially prevent diseases.

Five years since COVID-19 started upending the world, the virus is still infecting and killing people across the globe — though at far lower levels than during the height of the pandemic.

WORLD / Science & Health

Jan 8, 2025

Is the world ready for the next pandemic?

By Robin Millard

While the U.N. health agency considers the world more prepared than it was when Covid hit, it warns we are still not nearly ready enough.

A bottle line packaging production worker at the Coors brewery in Golden, Colorado, takes Coors Light cases off the line for label inspection.

WORLD / Science & Health

Jan 4, 2025

U.S. surgeon general urges cancer warnings for alcoholic drinks

The move could signal a shift toward more aggressive tobacco-style regulation for the sector if adopted.

Cats sit on steps at Grazing Plains Farm in Newton, Kansas, in May. Researchers are keeping a close eye on the mounting cases of bird flu infections in cats.

WORLD / Science & Health

Dec 28, 2024

New bird flu mutation discovered in U.S. as cat infections cause alarm

Several experts cautioned that it was too early to determine whether these changes would make the virus more transmissible or more severe in people.

A member of the medical staff treats a woman with COVID-19 next to her four-day-old baby at a hospital in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2021.

WORLD / Science & Health

Dec 27, 2024

COVID pregnancies may have boosted autism risk, study shows

By Jason Gale

"There’s something really going on,” pediatric infectious diseases physician Karin Nielsen says. "We don’t want to alarm the world, but that’s what our data are showing.”

Furaha Elisabeth applies medication on the skin of her child Sagesse Hakizimana, who is under treatment for Mpox, an infectious disease caused by the Mpox virus that causes a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever, at a health center in the Congo on Aug 19.

WORLD / Science & Health

Dec 24, 2024

Global disease resurgence in 2024 shows rising health threat

By Karoline Kan

The findings seek to renew the focus on the rise of preventable and climate-sensitive diseases, as well as a coordinated global response.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.

Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go

By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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