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Glamour,
23 Mar. 2026
His son developed Bell's palsy, a sudden paralysis on one side of the face, but recovered quickly after a course of oral antibiotics.
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Bram Sable-Smith,
NPR,
27 June 2026
Today, the life expectancy has more than doubled, from 35 to 79 years, and Washington would likely be treated with antibiotics, rather than bloodletting, for the throat infection that precipitated his death.
So far this year, 17 tons of illicit drugs, mostly cocaine, have been seized in the Pacific region – more than three times the total across the whole of last year, according to the Australian Federal Police.
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Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
26 June 2026
In January, the military government claimed the country’s largest-ever seizures of illicit drugs and drug-manufacturing equipment, taken from a total of 12 drug production sites during a series of raids in the northern part of Shan state.
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.
In Pasadena, volunteers at the restaurant Chamo Venezuelan Cuisine collected supplies, issuing a special plea for bandages, gauze, painkillers and other over-the-counter medicines.
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David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
The collection also accepts medical sharps, including diabetic needles, blood lancets, insulin pens, epi-pens, syringes, expired over-the-counter medicines and non-narcotic prescriptions.
At the same time, many of those new factories in industries ranging from semiconductors and batteries to pharmaceuticals are being built in China with lifetime production costs 30 to 50 percent lower than comparable facilities in advanced economies.
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Eric Kutcher,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
This alarming discovery, from the EcoShark Project, highlights how human pharmaceuticals enter marine ecosystems.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
To maintain eligibility, these systems must successfully execute complex calculations tied to specific physical sciences, focusing heavily on plasma physics, high-energy physics, materials science, and molecular chemistry.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
24 June 2026
The second theorem concerns somewhat more abstract forms of symmetry, which are particularly relevant in particle physics.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
23 June 2026