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The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health and climate-disruption upheavals” that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, according to an international group of scientists, who warn people still haven’t grasped the urgency of the biodiversity and climate crises.
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The 17 experts, including Prof. Paul Ehrlich from Stanford University, author of
The Population Bomb, and scientists from Mexico, Australia and the U.S., say the planet is in a much worse state than most people even scientists understood.
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Patients with untreated advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer lived longer without disease progression with the addition of a fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitor to chemotherapy, a randomized trial showed.
Median progression-free survival (PFS) increased from 7.4 months with chemotherapy alone to 9.5 months with bemarituzumab. The size of the PFS benefit increased with levels of FGFR2b expression. Median overall survival (OS) was 12.9 months with chemotherapy and not yet reached in patients who also received the FGFR2b inhibitor.
Adverse events (AEs) that occurred more often with bemarituzumab included stomatitis and ocular effects, particularly corneal AEs, reported Zev Wainberg, MD, of the University of California Los Angeles, at the Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium virtual meeting.
Covid-19 has depleted ranks of Nigeria’s leadership Obasanjo
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By James Ogunnaike
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented that the nation’s ranks of dedicated and resourceful patriotic leaders have been depleted by the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic.
Obasanjo said that resourceful patriots who served the nation in various capacities including, the late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Godwin Kanu, rtd. had succumed to deaths through Covid 19.
In a letter of condolence to Mrs. Gladys Ndubuisi-Kanu, wife of the late former military administrator of Imo and Lagos states in the 70s, Obasanjo eulogized the deceased, noting that he was a dedicated officer, a gentleman and a real patriot.