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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (10, August, 2026) authorised orforglipron (Foundayo), making the UK the first country in Europe to approve this GLP-1 tablet for weight management and type 2 diabetes. 

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Feed rapamycin to old mice and they live 9 to 14 percent longer, even when you start dosing them in the rodent equivalent of late middle age (extends lifespan). That single result, reproduced across three independent labs, is a big part of why rapamycin became the most talked-about molecule in the longevity space. So when…

Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), New Jersey’s largest comprehensive health network, recently announced it has become the first healthcare network in the nation to earn The Joint Commission’s Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare (RUAIH) Certification. 

Ancient DNA from two people buried in northern Chile is helping answer one of the most painful questions in the history of the Americas: how smallpox arrived after European contact. 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved mFlusiva®, the first mRNA-based influenza vaccine, for adults aged 50 years and older. For persons aged 65 years and older, the vaccine received accelerated approval based on immune responses; continued approval in this age group is contingent upon verification and description of clinical benefit in a confirmatory…

N.D. (Valley News Live) — North Dakota health officials have confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus this season, with a Cass County resident hospitalized as a result

UC Davis Medical Center has become the first hospital in the United States to treat a patient with symptomatic functional mitral regurgitation using a new minimally invasive therapy as part of a clinical trial

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After the European Commission gave marketing authorisation for the Wegovy semaglutide pill in July, Germany will be the first country to roll it out