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Tarlatamab rewrites treatment for small-cell lung cancer as approvals spread worldwide

For decades, patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer who relapsed after chemotherapy had almost nowhere to turn — five-year survival rates sat around 3%. Now a drug that physically bridges the patient's own immune cells to their tumor cells has been approved in both the United States and China, opening a new treatment class for one of the deadliest cancers. Tarlatamab, sold as Imdelltra, reduced the risk of death by 40% compared to standard chemotherapy in a confirmatory trial of 509 patients.

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Benin's democratic model erodes as opposition is systematically excluded from elections

Benin held its presidential election on April 12 with only two candidates on the ballot after the main opposition party was barred from competing. Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni, endorsed by outgoing President Patrice Talon, defeated Paul Hounkpè of the Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin party with provisional results released April 13 showing Wadagni winning approximately 66% of the vote. Turnout remained depressed at roughly 27%, continuing a decade-long pattern of voter disengagement in restricted elections.

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New heart preservation methods expand who can donate and how far organs can travel

For decades, a donated heart had to reach its recipient within four hours, and only hearts from brain-dead donors qualified. Both constraints are now falling. A Vanderbilt University team has published results in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that their REUP technique—a flush of oxygenated blood, del Nido cardioplegia solution, and cardioprotective additives—can preserve a heart from a donor whose heart has stopped beating for up to eight hours, with outcomes matching or exceeding existing methods at roughly $2,000 per transplant instead of $65,000.

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