Drug development articles
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Blood cancer sufferers to be offered pioneering new immunity drugs as 'standard care' on NHS following trial success with patients who did not respond to other drugs
Watchdogs last week gave the green light for pembrolizumab after studies suggested patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma on it lived longer than those given radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
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Drug driver caught with no insurance
A driver was stopped by police for having no insurance and then tested positive for cannabis at the roadside
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More countryside and farmland lost to development
The amount of untouched countryside and woods in the Netherlands declined some 2.5% in the ten years to 2022 to make way for new housing, roads and industry, national statistics agency CBS said on Friday. But proportionally more agricultural land was also ploughed up for building projects, the agency said. In total, the space covered by housing, infrastructure and industry expanded 3.4% or 277 square kilometres between 2013 and 2022, of which 178 square kilometres used to be agricultural land. ...