Climate change key driver of extreme drought in water scarce Sicily and Sardinia

Skip to content Sicilian olive trees. Image by Phylieb Sicily and Sardinia, the two largest Italian islands, important centres of agriculture and tourism have suffered from exceptionally low rainfall and very high temperatures over the last 12 months, culminating in extreme drought conditions from May 2024 onwards  Following an autumnContinue Reading

Sustained Benefits With TransCon PTH in Hypoparathyroidism

TOPLINE: Long-term treatment with TransCon parathyroid hormone (PTH), a replacement therapy for hypoparathyroidism, demonstrates sustained efficacy and safety in patients with hypoparathyroidism over 52 weeks, with 95% of participants able to discontinue conventional therapy. METHODOLOGY: Conventional therapy for hypoparathyroidism (active vitamin D and elemental calcium) alleviates symptoms of hypocalcemia, butContinue Reading

Republicans win majority of US House seats in government sweep, Edison projects

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party will control both houses of Congress when he takes office in January, Edison Research projected on Wednesday, enabling him to push an agenda of slashing taxes and shrinking the federal government. Republicans will have at least the 218 votesContinue Reading

You can’t turn a virtual page these days without finding a new article or column or editorial forecasting or demanding a “reckoning” for Democrats after Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris for the presidency. In some respects that’s as it should be. It was a critical election and Democrats came upContinue Reading