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The Food and Drug Administration this week told several drugmakers to add a boxed warning — the agency’s strongest safety label — to the prescribing information for a type of cancer treatment called CAR-T therapy, saying the treatment itself may increase a person’s risk of cancer.

Carly Kempler, a spokesperson for the FDA, said that, despite the warning, "the overall benefits of these products continue to outweigh their potential risks."

The agency’s decision to update the labels was based on reports of rare blood cancers in patients who had previously gotten CAR-T therapy, Kempler said. As of Monday, the agency had received 25 reports of the blood cancers in CAR-T patients, she said.

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Before proceedings began Monday, Alina Habba, Trump's lawyer, asked Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the trial, for a one-day adjournment when she said she wasn't feeling well after one or both of her parents were exposed to COVID.

Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, faces a second defamation trial Carroll, a former Elle columnist, that began last Tuesday and will determine how much Trump owes in damages.

They crawl slowly up a hill on their stomachs, covered in grime. One man moans after an instructor yanks him by the ankles back down the hill. Still, he keeps crawling.

One man lies on his back while an instructor sprays hose water in his face. Another, wearing big chains across his torso, shivers during an expletive-laden rant from a bearded man, who calls him a disappointment.

These men aren't prepping for an elite military mission.

They're trying to become better men, they say.

"Man camps," or all-male experiences designed for men's self-improvement, have gained attention on social media, where more extreme versions of these programs, such as the Modern Day Knight Project in Southern California, share videos of the treatment participants endure, often to the tune of hundreds of thousands of views.

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Humanity is facing a bizarre new pandemic threat, scientists have warned. Ancient viruses frozen in the Arctic permafrost could one day be released by Earth’s warming climate and unleash a major disease outbreak, they say.

Strains of these Methuselah microbes – or zombie viruses as they are also known – have already been isolated by researchers who have raised fears that a new global medical emergency could be triggered – not by an illness new to science but by a disease from the distant past.

As a result, scientists have begun planning an Arctic monitoring network that would pinpoint early cases of a disease caused by ancient micro-organisms. Additionally, it would provide quarantine and expert medical treatment for infected people in a bid to contain an outbreak, and prevent infected people from leaving the region.

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Lawmakers are urging the Food and Drug Administration to review a supplement dubbed "gas station heroin" that has been linked to seizures, overdoses and death.

Five members of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina, Tennessee and Colorado sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf Thursday with an urgent request for the body to review tianeptine and its presence in the U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson, D-North Carolina, wrote the letter.

Jackson noted that the FDA has issued several warnings about tianeptine, but said they aren't sufficient to stop its distribution. The FDA had previously said the supplement has been reported as addictive and that Neptune's Fix, a product containing the supplement, led to multiple hospitalizations.

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