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  • Galapagos bowel drug fails in research trial

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    BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian biotech group Galapagos said its experimental drug to treat bowel disease ulcerative colitis had failed to prove its efficacy in a medical trial and it would discontinue the program for that disease. While the drug GLPG1205 was well tolerated, Galapagos said it did not perform better than the placebo given to…

  • Redemption in Liberia: a hospital’s painful recovery from Ebola

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    By Kieran Guilbert MONROVIA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The cries of young children ring around the hospital as hundreds of patients, packed tightly together on wooden benches and surrounded by boxes of syringes piled high, wait to be seen. Nurses shout to be heard as they rush through the dimly-lit corridors, past peeling, faded posters…