ANALYSISAnalysing 4,504 German twins, researchers found the pollution–wellbeing link ran mostly between families, not within twin pairs — pointing to shared circumstances as much as the air itself.
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The 2012 safe harbour for 3Rs data was barely used. The replacement is a voluntary pilot that takes submissions independently of a marketing application, running until the third quarter of 2027.
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429 cases across nine countries, and a mosquito species that transmits two other viruses now established in 16 European countries — double the number from twelve years ago.
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THE HEAT MAPResearchers modelled 854 European cities under the climate that exists and the one that would have existed without human warming. The attributable share rose from 45% to 64%.
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ECDC data show near-zero hepatitis B in under-fives and vertical transmission below 2%, alongside five million chronic infections and only seven countries meeting the harm-reduction benchmark.
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ANALYSISA comparative survey finds four European countries still rely on opportunistic screening, and that where family doctors are most involved, participation tends to be lower — not higher.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSA registry study spanning 4.9 million people separates where the most deaths occur from where the inequality is largest. Heart disease and lung disease give different answers.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSA registry snapshot of 13,455 adults measures how far the biologic era has moved severe asthma toward remission, and finds the inflammation these drugs target still detectable in most patients.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSA burden-of-disease calculation built on EU noise-mapping data puts numbers on two outcomes that noise research has mostly ignored. The confidence intervals are as informative as the estimates.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSData from 20 European countries covering 2014 to 2024 tracks lung function, nutrition and infection through the arrival of triple modulator therapy — and the new complications arriving with age.
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ANALYSISThe ESC Atlas reports 68 million disability-adjusted life years and more than three million cardiovascular deaths a year, with middle-income countries carrying roughly double the mortality of high-income ones.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSThe LiverScreen project ran transient elastography across nine countries, then sent everyone who screened positive to a hepatologist. The gap between the two numbers is the interesting part.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSA survey-based analysis of the European Health Interview Survey puts a price on Europe's obesity-related hospital use, and finds the strongest single association is not with obesity at all.
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THE HEAT MAPResearchers tested heat-mortality forecasts against the European summers of 2022 and 2023. The skill pattern is not the one a warning system designer would have guessed.
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THE DRUG DOCKETTwo trials showed more deaths on voxelotor than placebo. The registry data that triggered the 2024 precautionary suspension did not confirm the original signal — the trials did something worse.
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THE DRUG DOCKETBrensocatib cleared CHMP on an accelerated timetable with a 19.4% cut in exacerbation rate. The same October meeting issued a negative opinion on belumosudil and kept a sickle cell drug suspended.
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Seven of those nine were denosumab. The committee's September opinions also covered an RSV antibody for infants, a first EU treatment for IgG4-related disease, and four withdrawn applications.
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THE HEAT MAPA 50-year attribution study separates two trends that usually get modelled as one: rising temperatures and a population that has become less likely to die in them.
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