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Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rights

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights. The justices’ 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump’s Republican administration ...
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Brazil poised to declare itself bird flu ‘free,’ state official says

By Ana Mano, Roberto Samora and Debora Ely SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil is ready to declare the country free of the bird flu virus on commercial flocks, Edivilson Brum, the head of Rio Grande do Sul state’s agriculture department, said on Wednesday in a statement. The ...
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Illinois quick hits: Budget lawsuit hearing set; teacher charged with abusing student out pretrial

Budget lawsuit hearing set A lawsuit claiming the process Democrats used to approve ...
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Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors, big loss for transgender rights

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights. The justices’ 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump’s Republican administration ...
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Purdue Pharma’s $7B opioid settlement could advance after all 50 states back it

All 50 U.S. states have agreed to the OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma ’s latest plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids. A judge on Wednesday is being asked to clear the way for local governments and individual victims to vote on ...
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US Senate Democrats demand Kennedy explain canceling bird flu vaccine contract

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Democrats demanded on Wednesday Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. make public the reviews on which his department said it based its decision to cancel a contract for developing a bird flu vaccine. President Donald Trump’s administration last month ...
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Nvidia-backed AI startup SandboxAQ creates new data to speed up drug discovery

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -SandboxAQ, an artificial intelligence startup spun out of Alphabet’s Google and backed by Nvidia, on Wednesday released a trove of data it hopes will speed up the discovery of new medical treatments by helping scientists understand how drugs stick ...
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AbbVie’s migraine drug meets main goal in head-to-head study with topiramate

(Reuters) -AbbVie said on Wednesday its migraine drug met the main goal and was superior to a widely used generic treatment in a head-to head late-stage trial. The U.S. drugmaker has been expanding and banking on its neuroscience portfolio after its blockbuster arthritis drug Humira ...
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Scholar Rock’s drug helps Zepbound patients retain more muscle in trial

(Reuters) -Scholar Rock said on Wednesday its experimental drug helped overweight patients preserve more lean mass in a mid-stage trial when used in combination with Eli Lilly’s weight-loss treatment Zepbound. Shares of the Massachusetts-based firm jumped 13% to $35.32 in premarket trading. Scholar Rock ...
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AbbVie’s migraine drug meets main goal of late-stage study

(Reuters) -AbbVie said on Wednesday its migraine drug met the main goal and was superior to a generic drug in a head-to head late-stage trial.(Reporting by Sriparna Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com
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Health Rounds: Weight-loss surgery more effective than drugs in real world study

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -Bariatric surgeries led to about five-times more weight loss than weekly injections of popular GLP-1 drugs, according to data from a real-world comparison study presented on Tuesday at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery scientific meeting in Washington. “Clinical trials ...
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Scholar Rock’s drug helps patients on Zepbound preserve muscle in trial

(Reuters) -Scholar Rock said on Wednesday its experimental drug helped overweight patients preserve lean mass in a mid-stage trial when used in combination with Eli Lilly’s weight-loss treatment Zepbound. Shares of Scholar Rock jumped 16% in premarket trading. Scholar’s drug, apitegromab, when combined with Zepbound ...
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