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The drug manufacturer Eli Lilly announced on Wednesday that a clinical trial of an experimental Alzheimer's drug showed it can slow progress of the feared disease and allow patients to have more time when they can still live independently, performing tasks like cooking meals, going to the store and driving a car.

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Idaho Gov. Brad Little delivers his 2023 State of the State address at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise in January.A new law allows executions by firing squad if no lethal injection drugs are available.Kyle Green/AP Idaho may soon use firing squads to execute death-row inmates if no lethal injection drugs are available, under a new law signed last week.

Welcome to the HBR Video Quick Take.I'm Todd Pruzan, senior editor for Research and Special Projects at Harvard Business Review.A decentralized clinical trial, or DCT, is a method of conducting clinical trials in which part or all of the trial happens outside a traditional physical clinic or trial site.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email An MP has accused the NHS of abandoning her sister who suffers from brain cancer in an emotional speech in parliament.Labour's Siobhain McDonagh fought back tears as she raised the experiences of 61-year-old Margaret McDonagh, a former Labour general secretary who sits in the House of Lords as Baroness McDonagh.

A few months ago, I had to give a patient the worst news.It looks like your cancer has returned, I said.The man had religiously attended his chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions in the city's public health care system up until nine months before.Looking for a little more scheduling flexibility with his appointments, he took a step that seemed logical.

The co-founder and former president of Outcome Health did not teach an underling to commit fraud and did not intend to deceive clients, an attorney said Thursday as closing arguments continued in the widely watched criminal fraud trial of three former Outcome executives.Attorneys entered a third day of closing arguments Thursday, with a lawyer representing former co-founder and president Shradha Agarwal getting her turn to make a final impression on jurors.

A pair of community health centers - Heritage Health and Housing in Harlem and Evergreen Health in Buffalo - filed a lawsuit late last week against the New York State Department of Health to block the upcoming launch of a new prescription drug plan for Medicaid members, known as NYRx.It's part of a final attempt by several stakeholders to derail the plan, which takes effect this Saturday.

The former CEO of the once lauded Chicago tech start-up Outcome Health did not commit fraud but rather trusted the wrong person, a defense attorney argued Wednesday morning, as closing arguments continued in the trial of three former company executives.After more than seven hours of closing arguments from a government prosecutor, the defense began its turn Wednesday giving closing arguments in the criminal trial against former Outcome CEO Rishi Shah, former President Shradha Agarwal and former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Brad Purdy.

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said President Joe Biden is not lying about the plan that Florida Sen. Rick Scott and other Republicans keep insisting he's lying about including the ones who shouted LIAR! at the State of the Union speech.On Friday morning's edition of CNN Newsroom, co-anchors Erica Hill and Jim Sciutto hosted Dale to fact-check Scott, who authored the proposal at the heart of the explosive moment Republicans heckled Biden at the State of the Union, and others who claim the president lied when he said some Republicans, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset.

"This year, the Federal Circuit will decide whether a judge-made-doctrine can truncate a legislative grant of patent term adjustment....In doing so it could craft a bright-line rule that a judge-made doctrine cannot cut off a statutorily authorized time extension."Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) was designed to serve an important purpose - to compensate patentees for time lost during examination due to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) delays.

Moderna's mRNA-based vaccine against RSV (respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus) was effective at preventing disease in older adults, according to preliminary, top-line results of an ongoing phase III clinical trial the company announced Tuesday.Moderna said it will now seek regulatory approval for the vaccine in the first half of this year.

Shipping containers are reshuffled and stored at a commercial port in Vladivostok, Russia, on Wednesday.(Tatiana Meel/Reuters)Russia's Industry and Trade Ministry said Wednesday that it had taken steps to establish domestic production of generic forms of Viagra, the erectile dysfunction remedy, after the U.S. manufacturer of the drug halted supplies.

The German government said Tuesday that it will allow health insurance companies to pay more for pediatric medications that are in short supply in the country.Germans have scrambled to find basic drugs such as painkillers in recent weeks amid delivery bottlenecks and higher-than-usual demand.Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said insurers that form the backbone of the German public health system will be able to pay 50% more than the legally set price for patent-free medicines.