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Ethiopia: Tigray Authorities Forcibly Recruiting Civilians
Click to expand Image Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters in Mekele, Tigray region, Ethiopia, June 30, 2021. © 2021 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Regional authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have been abducting and…
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Should blood tests to screen for cancer be used on a population basis? Elizabeth Tracey reports
When large populations of people were screened for multiple cancers using a blood test, not only didn’t cancers get found earlier, others who were not screened had delays in their diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Johns Hopkins Kimmel…
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Just how expensive could it be to screen populations of people for cancer using blood tests? Elizabeth Tracey reports
A blood test capable of detecting multiple cancers seems like a dream come true, yet a new study looking at such a test used in populations of people failed to find cancers earlier, and also delayed diagnosis for…
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What do false positives and negatives have to do with screening tests for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
A blood test used for population based cancer screening fell short of allowing cancers to be detected earlier, was cost prohibitive and delayed diagnoses for others, a new study shows. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson…
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Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Rexatilux, ranibizumab, Date of authorisation: 19/06/2026, Status: Authorised
Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Rexatilux, ranibizumab, Date of authorisation: 19/06/2026, Status: Authorised
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Communicable disease threats report, 27 June – 3 July 2026, Week 27
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 27 June - 3 July 2026, and includes updates on Ebola, West Nile Virus infections, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, expert deployment, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS),…
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Lebanon/Israel: Framework Agreement Betrays Victims of War Crimes in Lebanon
Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (back-center) and others watch, as Israel's Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (front-left), counselor Dan Holler (front-center), and Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh (front-right), sign a…
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Sudan: UN Human Rights Council Holds Landmark Session to Prevent Atrocities in El Obeid
Click to expand Image Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2025. © 2025 Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images The UN Human Rights Council held an emergency session today on the imminent risk of atrocities in and…
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