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Europe: Shares see first daily gain in five on strong earnings

Europe: Shares see first daily gain in five on strong earnings

[BENGALURU] European shares snapped a four-day losing streak on Thursday (Jul 16), boosted by gains in industrials ABB and Legrand after they reported positive earnings news. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed 1 per cent higher. Most major...

Swiss-Singapore partnership to develop therapies for autoimmune diseases

Swiss-Singapore partnership to develop therapies for autoimmune diseases

Swiss-Singapore partnership to develop therapies for autoimmune diseases July 3, 2025 | Thursday | News RDP Pharma AG and Experimental Drug Development Centre launch strategic collaboration image credit- shutterstock RDP Pharma AG, a Swiss...

Mechanisms of Microctis Folium in Hyperlipidemia: Integrating Serum Pharmacochemistry, Network Pharmacology, and Transcriptomics

Mechanisms of Microctis Folium in Hyperlipidemia: Integrating Serum Pharmacochemistry, Network Pharmacology, and Transcriptomics

Introduction Hyperlipidemia (HLP) is a common metabolic disorder and a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, stroke, myocardial infarction, and atherosclerosis, posing a significant threat to public health. It is characterized by elevated...

Rod Stewart's emotional message to Penny Lancaster after sharing health fears

Rod Stewart's emotional message to Penny Lancaster after sharing health fears

Penny Lancaster has shared moving details about Sir Rod Stewart's reaction to his major career milestone. Following a challenging period, the iconic artist celebrated a remarkable moment last month with his successful return to Glastonbury...

Switzerland approves first malaria drug for infants, opening African access

Switzerland approves first malaria drug for infants, opening African access

Daijiworld Media Network – Geneva Geneva, Jul 9: In a major breakthrough in the fight against malaria, Swissmedic, Switzerland’s medical products authority, has granted the first-ever approval for a malaria drug specifically formulated for small...

AP Strange SummaryBrief at 5:12 p.m. EDT

AP Strange SummaryBrief at 5:12 p.m. EDT

The first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound dies in crash in Italy, city's mayor says MILAN (AP) — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash...

AP Strange SummaryBrief at 5:43 p.m. EDT

AP Strange SummaryBrief at 5:43 p.m. EDT

Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, dies in crash in Italy MILAN (AP) — Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash...

Swiss authority issues first approval for antimalaria drug for newborns

Swiss authority issues first approval for antimalaria drug for newborns

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Switzerland issues first approval for anti-malaria drug for infants

Switzerland issues first approval for anti-malaria drug for infants

Switzerland's medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives — nearly all in Africa — each...

How Indian wellness retreats are offering sleep therapy to fight insomnia

How Indian wellness retreats are offering sleep therapy to fight insomnia

It’s not that Nagdev, 36, is not making an effort. The Delhi resident has tried everything from indoor air quality monitors and earplugs to sleep trackers and calming music. He regularly goes to the gym, has changed the mattress, propped his...

Clinically Adult-Onset Nesidioblastosis with Repeated Severe Hypoglycemia, Successfully Treated by Two Times Pancreatectomies. A Rare Case Report

Clinically Adult-Onset Nesidioblastosis with Repeated Severe Hypoglycemia, Successfully Treated by Two Times Pancreatectomies. A Rare Case Report

Introduction Nesidioblastosis is the most common cause of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in infants but is extremely rare in adults.1,2 Insulinoma is the most frequent cause of hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in adult.2 Nesidioblastosis is...

Tracee Ellis Ross Reveals Her Surprising Plane 'Game'—and Why She Never Eats on a Flight

Tracee Ellis Ross Reveals Her Surprising Plane 'Game'—and Why She Never Eats on a Flight

Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Travel + Leisure (L-R) Jacqueline Gifford and Tracee Ellis Ross speak onstage during the Travel + Leisure World's Best Summit 2025 on July 15, 2025 in New York City.Tracee Ellis Ross describes herself as a “child of...

Swiss medicines authority issues first approval for antimalarial drug for treatment of...

Swiss medicines authority issues first approval for antimalarial drug for treatment of...

The agency said that the decision is significant in part because it's only the third time it has approved a treatment under a fast-track authorization process, in coordination with the World Health Organization, to help developing countries access...

What are the healthcare rights work of foreign residents of France when abroad?

What are the healthcare rights work of foreign residents of France when abroad?

We also look at how Americans visiting the US and Britons visiting the UK are covered Some Britons in France will be able to use a Ghic, depending on when they moved fizkes / Ascannio / Shutterstock If you move to France and are part of the...

The first drug to treat infants sick with malaria is approved by Swiss authority

The first drug to treat infants sick with malaria is approved by Swiss authority

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants,… GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine...

Swiss-led delegation arrives in Washington to advance peace and protected return for Artsakh Armenians

Swiss-led delegation arrives in Washington to advance peace and protected return for Artsakh Armenians

WASHINGTON—Swiss parliamentarians Erich Vontobel (Federal Democratic Union) and Lukas Reimann (Swiss People’s Party) are leading an international delegation to Washington, D.C., for a series of high-level meetings promoting the Swiss Peace...

Swiss MedTech company Comphya raises €8 million to tackle erectile dysfunction with new device

Swiss MedTech company Comphya raises €8 million to tackle erectile dysfunction with new device

Lausanne-based Comphya SA, a clinical-stage MedTech company innovating the first implantable neurostimulation therapy for erectile dysfunction (ED) unresponsive to medication, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed Series A financing...

Indonesia boosts safety measures at Mt. Rinjani after recent climber accidents

JAKARTA, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara province are taking comprehensive steps to enhance the safety of climbers and tourists on Mount Rinjani, following a series of recent accidents involving international...

Cyclist, 19, dies after hitting speed bump during Giro della Valle d'Aosta

Cyclist, 19, dies after hitting speed bump during Giro della Valle d'Aosta

A 19-year-old Italian cyclist has died after crashing during the opening stage of the Giro della Valle d'Aosta in northwest Italy on Wednesday. Samuele Privitera apparently struck a speed bump and lost control of his bicycle on a downhill section...

Emails: Collier County officials left out of DeSantis 'Alligator Alcatraz' plans

Emails: Collier County officials left out of DeSantis 'Alligator Alcatraz' plans

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades, emails obtained by The Associated Press show,...

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