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The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who created revolutionary porous materials that can harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and remove toxins from water.
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on ‘Hermione’s handbag’
Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery
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Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition, a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed.
Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates
Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children
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Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25% after weeks of intensive talks with the Donald Trump administration and drugmakers.
NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump
UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments
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The leader of one of the largest academy trusts in England has described the Department for Education’s failure to do any planning for school closures before lockdown in March 2020 as “an extraordinary dereliction of duty”.
Lack of school closure plan ‘an extraordinary dereliction of duty’, Covid inquiry told
Academy trust head Jon Coles says he nearly fell off his chair when Gavin Williamson said no plan was in place
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The NHS and social care would cease to function under the government’s new rules to be imposed on foreign staff, nursing leaders have said, as hundreds of medics condemned the policy as “divisive and xenophobic”.
NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses
Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK
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The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of Health three weeks after she filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration over its hostility towards vaccines.
RFK Jr fires top NIH scientist weeks after she files whistleblower complaint
Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump administration’s hostility toward vaccines
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The Covid pandemic disrupted the “very fabric of childhood”, the UK inquiry has heard, on the first day of a four-week session devoted to its impact on children and young people.
Covid school closures in UK damaged ‘very fabric of childhood’
Inquiry hears of children exposed to pornography and suffering ‘grievous’ harm without protection of schools
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Britain’s second-biggest drugmaker GSK has announced the surprise departure of its chief executive, Emma Walmsley, after eight years in the top job.
GSK’s Emma Walmsley to be replaced as chief executive
Chief commercial officer Luke Miels to take over as CEO at Britain’s second-biggest drugmaker in surprise move
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Early results from a clinical trial suggest that a common diabetes drug taken with an antihistamine can partially repair damage in the nervous system that drives disability in multiple sclerosis.
‘Exciting’ clinical results offer hope for new class of MS therapies
Cambridge trial suggests diabetes drug with antihistamine can partially repair damage in the nervous system
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Civilians in Gaza have sustained injuries of a type and on a scale more usually seen among professional soldiers involved in intense combat operations, research has found.
Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds
Wounds such as burns or leg injuries are more common in Gaza than among US soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan
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A drug that provides near-perfect protection against HIV with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the HIV epidemic.
Cheap supplies of HIV-prevention jab for poorer countries hailed as ‘genuine chance to end’ global epidemic
Lenacapavir described as ‘next best thing’ to an HIV vaccine will cost $40 a year for each patient in 120 countries from 2027, funders say
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World leaders have unveiled new targets to cut planet-heating pollution at the United Nations, in a bid to spur fresh impetus to the beleaguered climate effort a day after Donald Trump called the crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated upon the world”.
‘Science demands action’: world leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump’s attacks
Leaders unveil new targets to cut planet-heating pollution after Trump called climate crisis a ‘con job’
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The few remaining hospitals and clinics in central and southern Gaza are being overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of injured and sick patients fleeing a new Israeli offensive in the north of the devastated territory, medics say.
‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south
‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City
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