Bayer Halts Key Drug Trial Amid Performance Concerns, Faces Growing Challenges
Nov 20, 2023 09:41 am UTC| Business Health
Bayer announced the premature termination of a significant late-stage trial for an experimental anti-clotting drug. The trial was halted due to the drugs inferior performance when compared to Bristol-Myers Squibb and...
Adidas, Disney, Walmart Linked to Cambodian Factory Pollution Scandal
Nov 20, 2023 07:10 am UTC| Business Health
A report by The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) has unveiled alarming practices in Cambodian brick factories. Waste materials from major international brands, including Adidas and...
Flame retardant chemicals can cause serious health risks – and they only slow fire by a few seconds
Nov 19, 2023 06:23 am UTC| Health
House fires are many peoples worst nightmare. But chemicals created decades ago to protect peoples homes from out of control flames opened our front doors to a new menace: toxic chemicals. Ones that we are consistently...
Creative minds are vulnerable to mental illness – but magicians escape the curse
Nov 19, 2023 06:11 am UTC| Health
Can you think of a comedian, actor, poet or writer who suffered from mental illness? Maybe the actor Robin Williams or comedian Stephen Fry came to your mind. Perhaps it was the writer Virginia Woolf. All three have had...
Nov 19, 2023 06:04 am UTC| Health
The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning in late October 2023 urging consumers to avoid purchasing and to immediately stop using 26 over-the-counter eye drop products because of risk of eye infection that could...
Rite Aid Sues US Justice Dept Over Opioid Prescription Allegations, Bankruptcy Issue
Nov 17, 2023 06:26 am UTC| Business Law Health
Rite Aid has sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to halt a lawsuit alleging the companys involvement in illegally filling prescriptions for addictive opioid medications. The lawsuit comes as Rite Aid finds itself in...
Nov 15, 2023 02:13 am UTC| Health
Every time the country is shaken by a tragic mass shooting and the loss of innocent lives, mental illness and its role in the actions of the mass shooter come under scrutiny. Mental illness again became a central theme...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight