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Pope Leo won't need more treatment after cancer surgery, doctors say

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Pope Leo XIV will not need any further treatment after having lung cancer surgery , his doctors said in a statement Wednesday.

Test results confirmed that the pope's cancer was localized, Dr. Luigi Carbone, the pope's physician, and Dr. Stefano Margaritora, his surgeon, said in a statement.

"A subsequent oncological evaluation has confirmed that no further therapy is required," the doctors said.

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Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted

The US-backed hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns that drew global backlash was halted, the lead researcher said on Wednesday. It was “now clear” that the study “will not move forward in Guinea-Bissau”, Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, a Danish researcher, wrote on LinkedIn, adding, “we were not given the necessary governmental approval.” The minister of health in Guinea-Bissau, Quinhin Nantote, previously denied that the project would move forward. “This is not even remotely true,” Nantote told the Guardian in Portuguese last week.

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RFK Jr’s ‘deities of vaccine research’ raided by police in Guinea-Bissau

Police seize doses of hepatitis B vaccine from people at center of dispute over research on African newborns Controversial vaccine researchers who have been praised by Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, had their offices in Guinea-Bissau raided by judicial police, who seized doses of hepatitis B vaccines, officials said on Facebook. The researchers have been at the heart of an ongoing dispute over research on African newborns, supported by $1.6m from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

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