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A photo of an overweight man sitting on an old couch with a very large unhealthy meal on his lap and a pint of beer in his hand. Obesity is a major cause of diabetes.

New oral drug to hit ‘silent killer’

Cardiologist Stephen Nicholls has designed a new treatment that lowers cholesterol levels by 65 per cent in patients who previously had no possible medical treatment.

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(FILES) In this grab from a handout footage taken and released by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on August 11, 2023, a Soyuz 2.1b rocket with the Luna-25 lander blasts off from the launch pad at the Vostochny cosmodrome, some 180 km north of Blagoveschensk, in the Amur region. The Luna-25 probe, Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years, has crashed on the Moon after an incident during pre-landing manoeuvres, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on August 20, 2023. (Photo by Handout / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

The new race to reach the moon – and find water

Renewed ambitions for scientific research and deep-space exploration has sent nations and private companies racing to send devices to the surface of the moon. Sticking the landing is another story.

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