“Denmark has effectively eliminated infections with the two biggest cancer-causing strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) since the vaccine was introduced in 2008, data suggests…
‘Before vaccination, the prevalence of HPV16/18 was between 15 and 17%, which has decreased in vaccinated women to less than one percent by 2021.'”
From Gavi.
“Just one week after the landmark US approval of a game-changing drug for advanced pancreatic cancer, the same therapy is showing promise against the world’s biggest cancer killer: lung cancer.
In a small clinical trial of the drug daraxonrasib (Rasonque), tumours shrank in more than 30% of participants with the most common form of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer. Each participant had a tumour-promoting mutation in a member of the RAS family of proteins, and had previously tried other therapies.”
From Nature.
“A drug being developed by AstraZeneca significantly reduced flare-ups of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in two late-stage trials, researchers reported on Tuesday at the medical meeting in Barcelona.
Patients receiving Astra's tozorakimab during the year-long studies experienced about 29% to 34% fewer moderate-to-severe COPD exacerbations than those receiving a placebo, the researchers reported.
Overall rates of moderate or severe exacerbations among former and current smokers in the two trials were 1.41 and 1.44 events, respectively, in patients receiving tozorakimab compared with 2.00 and 2.03 events, respectively, in those receiving a placebo.”
From Reuters.
“Semaglutide, the drug behind Ozempic and Wegovy, may have benefits that extend well beyond weight loss and diabetes. In a large Swedish study of nearly 15,000 people with bipolar disorder, its use was linked to a 21% lower risk of psychiatric hospitalization.”
From ScienceDaily.
World Health Organization | Communicable Disease
“The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Bhutan’s elimination of dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem in the country. Bhutan is the first country in the WHO South-East Asia Region to achieve this success.
Rabies is a viral disease that is almost always fatal once clinical symptoms appear. However, rabies deaths are preventable. On one hand, vaccinating dogs curbs the disease at its source; on the other, prompt use of post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) stops the virus from reaching the central nervous system after a bite. PEP consists of thorough wound washing, administration of a course of human rabies vaccine and, when indicated, rabies immunoglobulins (RIG) injection.”
