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A worker replacing a corroded lead pipe in a residential street for an article about Flint lead pipe replacement, for article on lead pipe removal

2024 C.E. October 8

U.S. announces 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwide

Lead pipes in roughly nine million American homes are now on a federal clock: the EPA's new rule requires every utility to find and replace them within 10 years. Backed by $2.6 billion in fresh funding, the policy marks a dramatic shift from previous timelines that stretched 40 or even 50 years out. Nearly half the money is directed to disadvantaged communities, where decades of disinvestment left lead lines in place long after wealthier...

Good news for marine protection, for article on Australia ocean protection

2024 C.E. October 7

Australia to protect 52% of its oceans, more than any other country

Australia's ocean protection just leveled up in a big way, with a sub-Antarctic marine reserve quadrupling to add 300,000 square kilometers of safeguarded waters — an area roughly the size of Italy. The expansion around Heard and McDonald Islands shields glaciers, albatross, macaroni penguins, elephant seals, and fish found almost nowhere else, keeping mining and new commercial fisheries out of one of the planet's least-disturbed places. With this move, Australia now protects 52% of...

Virus up close, for article on lenacapavir HIV prevention

2024 C.E. October 7

‘Gamechanger’ HIV prevention drug to be made available cheaply in 120 countries

Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly HIV prevention shot with near-perfect results in clinical trials, is about to become far more affordable for millions of people. Gilead Sciences has licensed six generic manufacturers across India, Egypt, Pakistan, and the U.S. to produce the drug for 120 lower-income countries, where researchers estimate it could eventually be made for as little as $40 per patient per year. In trials among cisgender women in South Africa and Uganda, not a...

image for article on mpox diagnostic test

2024 C.E. October 5

World Health Organization approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use

The first mpox diagnostic test has been cleared through the World Health Organization's Emergency Use Listing, opening a faster procurement route for the countries hit hardest by the outbreak. Abbott's Alinity m MPXV assay detects both clades of the virus from rash samples, and UN agencies can now order it directly for places where national approval pathways would otherwise take months. That speed matters: in 2024, only 37% of suspected mpox cases in the...

image for article on ovarian cancer prevention vaccine

2024 C.E. October 4

Scientists in the U.K. developing world’s first vaccine to prevent ovarian cancer

OvarianVax, in development at the University of Oxford, has just received up to £600,000 from Cancer Research U.K. to pursue the world's first vaccine designed to prevent ovarian cancer before it begins. The idea is to train the immune system to recognize over 100 proteins found on early-stage ovarian cancer cells, then destroy those cells before they can spread. For women carrying BRCA gene mutations, who currently face the wrenching choice of preventive surgery...

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