Where would musical theater be without gleaming little prop vials of potions?
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
11 July 2026
Along the way, visitors can cast spells with a digital wand, brew potions, pot a mandrake, test their Quidditch skills and explore iconic settings like the Great Hall, Hogwarts classrooms, Hagrid's Hut and the Forbidden Forest.
That would be news to Big Pharma, which has invested billions developing wildly popular obesity drugs, not to mention the decades of public-health campaigns devoted to diet, exercise and weight loss.
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Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Aug. 2026
Still, for patients and healthcare providers alike, easing access to obesity drugs is a welcome move, particularly in light of the fact that statutory rules written in 2006 have long precluded Medicare from covering weight-loss medications.
In March, BioNTech announced that Sahin and his cofounder and wife Özlem Türeci, the company’s chief medical officer, would depart the company to lead a new biotech focused on developing mRNA medicines.
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Andrew Joseph,
STAT,
3 Aug. 2026
The only comparable case in the last three years involved Los Nogales, a restaurant in Meeker, which allegedly dispensed antibiotics and non-narcotic cough medicines.
The cost of daily life in Lake Stevens, Washington – fuel, groceries, medications and children’s formula – has added up.
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Natasha Chen,
CNN Money,
3 Aug. 2026
The defense has their own expert witnesses set to testify, setting up the two sides to present conflicting arguments over Lindsay Clancy’s mental state, her medications, and postpartum psychosis.
That is where this story becomes relevant far beyond pharmaceuticals.
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Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2026
In-space manufacturing is an emerging possibility for companies interested in producing or researching how to create pharmaceuticals, electronics or other technologies in microgravity or a vacuum.
Two employees in pharmaceutical industry wearing protective gloves, mask, cap and white suit seen standing by the machine that is the part of the medicaments production during the working hours in a pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Floating in zero gravity, players slice derelict spacecraft into salvageable chunks, while also contending with unruly physics, pressure, and profit margins.
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Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
2 Aug. 2026
Indefinite Causal Order Quantum systems often display behaviors that are difficult to explain with classical physics.
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Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
27 July 2026
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