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Syria’s Suwayda: A new hub for the multibillion-dollar Captagon trade? | Drugs News

Jordanian fighter jets struck what they described as “factories and laboratories” for narcotics in southern Syria on Sunday, highlighting the emergence of Suwayda province as a key hub for the production of Captagon, a highly addictive amphetamine. While the multibillion-dollar Captagon industry was once synonymous with forces linked to the government of former President Bashar…

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Colon cancer breakthrough keeps patients cancer-free for nearly 3 years

A new clinical trial suggests that giving immunotherapy before surgery may dramatically improve outcomes for certain colorectal cancer patients. In the NEOPRISM-CRC study, patients treated with a short course of immunotherapy instead of chemotherapy after surgery have remained cancer-free for nearly three years. The trial, led by researchers at UCL and UCLH, found that just nine…

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How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit | US news

The only train station in Houston, the US’s fourth-largest city and one of the fastest-growing conurbations in the country, is a diminished, morose sight. Intercity trains arrive at this squat, shed-like Amtrak building, which cringes in the shadows of roaring highways, just three times a week. That such a meager train station could ostensibly serve…

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