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He Food and Drug Administration on Thursday fully approved the Alzheimer's drug Leqembi, amid concerns about its safety, cost and accessibility. The move marks the first time that a drug intended to slow the progression of the disease has gained full regulatory approval. Other approved drugs only target your symptoms."I don't think we can underestimate the importance of this moment," said Donna Wilcock, associate dean for biomedicine at the University of Kentucky. About 6.7 million adults 65 and older in the United States have Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association. Leqembi, from Japanese drugmaker Eisai and US-based drugmaker Biogen,…

The Brazilian women's soccer team arrived in Australia ahead of the FIFA Women's World Cup, which begins on July 20, and they came with a message. The team's plane landed in Brisbane on Wednesday morning, but it was not a standard plane: it had a message for Iranian protesters on the sides and tail. Photos of Mahsa Amini, who died after being detained by Iran's "morality police", and Amir Nasr Azadani, a former soccer player who was sentenced to 26 years in prison for participating in the protests following Amini's death, were seen in the tail of the aircraft. CLICK…

Angelina Jolie he is addressing the health inequities he sees when it comes to race.He actor and humanitarian published an opinion piece for the american journal of nursing on July 5, in which she touched on new technology that detects bruises in darker skin tones when dealing with survivors of domestic violence. Jolie, 48, began by writing how many medical research, imaging and training centers focus on white skin, and as a result, medical professionals "often overlook injuries based on race and ethnicity."“As a mother of children of multiple races, I have seen my children of color misdiagnosed, sometimes in…

Twitter's lawyer wrote a letter to the father of Facebook Goal on Wednesday, accusing the company of “systematic” and “illegal” “misappropriation” of trade secrets following the release of its Threads service.The long time letter Elon Musk Lawyer Alex Spiro alleged that Meta's new Twitter clone was created by former Twitter employees "deliberately assigned" to develop a "copycat" app. Semafor was the first to report the letter.Spiro offered no concrete examples of Twitter employees using trade secrets to create the app, which made it notch. millions of users a few hours after its launch. But the message, sent the same day…