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Everyone’s talking about hormone therapy for menopause. Should I be on it?
Hormone therapy can effectively ease menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes and night sweats, but the article says it is not automatically right for everyone. Renewed discussion follows a change in US drug warnings and growing recognition that risks differ substantially by age, timing and an individual’s health history. The influential 2002 Women’s Health Initiative…
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Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as ‘ghastly’
Prediction-market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket are allowing users to bet on clinical-trial outcomes and US Food and Drug Administration decisions on new medicines. Critics say this creates ethical and scientific risks by giving people a financial interest in a treatment failing, potentially affecting patient trust and the integrity of research. Kalshi says such markets could…
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Moment earthquake shakes hospital operating room in Japan
Newly released security footage shows a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shaking an operating room at Kumamoto General Hospital in Japan last month. Medical staff protected a patient undergoing abdominal surgery as equipment swayed, highlighting the risks hospitals face when emergencies strike during critical treatment. Four operations were taking place when the earthquake hit on 28 July,…
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Court orders Instagram and Facebook’s Meta to pay $567M to address kids’ mental health online
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to pay $567 million to address harm to young people linked to its platforms. The ruling adds to legal pressure on the company over claims that its products were designed in ways that harmed children’s mental health and failed to protect…
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Moment Japanese surgeons cling to patient in operating theatre as 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits
Footage has emerged showing surgeons in Japan clinging to a patient on the operating table as a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck during surgery. The moment underlines the risks faced by medical staff carrying out procedures in one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, and highlights the safety protocols hospitals rely on to protect patients mid-operation…
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Teen shot twice while driving through Sydney streets in terrifying ambush
The article text provided does not contain the actual story content — only the Daily Mail website’s navigation menu and a list of unrelated headline links were captured. No details about the reported shooting of a teenager in Greenacre, Sydney, are present in the supplied text, so a factual summary of the incident cannot be…
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Irish boxer Reeves ‘making progress’ in hospital
Irish boxer Lee Reeves is showing signs of improvement in hospital, according to promoter Frank Warren, days after he was knocked out and stretchered from the ring during a title fight in Dublin. The 31-year-old’s condition had initially been described as “critical but stable”, raising serious concern for his welfare following a brutal defeat, though…
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AI is now making new viruses
Researchers at Stanford University and the Palo Alto-based Arc Institute have used artificial intelligence models to design new viruses capable of infecting and reproducing inside bacteria, according to a study published in the journal Science. The work, carried out with careful safeguards, could pave the way for advances in gene therapy and biotechnology, but it…
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Large genome models used to design new viruses
Researchers at Stanford have used large genome models to generate new versions of bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—based on the well-studied ΦX174 virus. The work suggests that AI systems trained on DNA can produce complete, functional-looking viral genomes rather than only individual genes, raising both scientific opportunities and longer-term biosecurity concerns. The models, Evo 1 and…