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Trump sends tariff letters to 7 more countries but avoids major trade partners
PBS Frontline
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July 9, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sent out tariff letters to seven smaller U.S. trading partners on Wednesday with a pledge to announce import taxes on other countries later in the day. None of the countries targeted in the first batch of...
Flanking tactics
Business World
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July 9, 2025
Don’t look now, but if we’re not careful, we could find ourselves legally outflanked over the West Philippine Sea. In a move widely reported abroad on May 30 but which merited just minor, bottom-page treatment in the “World” pages of two local...
What Trump’s Africa Summit Is Trying to Achieve
Foreign Policy
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July 9, 2025
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a surprise African leaders’ summit in Washington, anti-government protests turn deadly in Kenya, and Nigerian ride-hailing start-up Moove eyes...
Texas politicians lead effort to study a psychedelic drug. What is ibogaine?
AOL
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A once obscure traditional psychedelic plant from Africa has made headlines recently as Texas pushes for more research and a prominent Republican wrote a vigorous endorsement of its possible use for the treatment of addiction and for veterans...
‘Self-Medicating’ Gorillas Are Leading People to New Medicines
FOX 11 and 41 - Washington State
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September 13, 2024
Key Takeaways Gorillas could point the way to new medicines for humansWild great apes self-medicate with plants in the wildWatching gorillas, researchers identified four plants that work against E. coli FRIDAY, Sept. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) —...
'Self-Medicating' Gorillas Are Leading People to New Medicines
The Press - California
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Key Takeaways Gorillas could point the way to new medicines for humans Wild great apes self-medicate with plants in the wild Watching gorillas, researchers identified four plants that work against E. coli FRIDAY, Sept. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) --...
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LiveScience
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September 11, 2024
Wild gorillas in Gabon eat several of the same plants traditional healers in the region use, and these plants show antibacterial properties in lab dishes, scientists found. In a new study, compounds in the bark of different trees showed potency...
Self-medicating gorillas may hold new drugs clues
BBC
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September 11, 2024
Fewer than 150,000 western lowland gorillas survive in the wild in Central and West Africa Self-medicating gorillas may hold clues to future drug discovery, according to scientists. Researchers in Gabon studied tropical plants eaten by wild...
Drug-taking gorillas may hold secrets of future medicines
Boing Boing
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September 13, 2024
Ethnobotanists have long studied how Indigenous peoples use plant medicines in ways that are more advanced than Western science. Turns out, it isn't just native peoples who may hold secrets to treating a variety of diseases but also animals in...
Self-medicating gorillas could help find future drugs
Female First
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13 September 2024 Self-medicating gorillas could provide the key to the discovery of future drugs. Self-medicating gorillas could aid scientists Researchers in Gabon have studied the tropical plants eaten by wild gorillas and used by human healers...
Self-medicating gorillas and traditional healers may hold clues to new medicines
Scimex Newsfeed
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September 11, 2024
Funder: The authors received no specific funding for this work. From: PLOS Self-medicating gorillas and traditional healers provide clues for new drug discovery Four plants eaten by gorillas, also used in Gabonese traditional medicine, have...
Gorillas’ Medicinal Plants Offer Clues For Drug-Resistant E.coli
Independent Journal Review
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September 12, 2024
Self-medicating gorillas have provided valuable clues in the search for new medicines to combat drug-resistant strains of E.coli. Scientists say four plants consumed by wild gorillas in Gabon and used by local communities in traditional medicine...
MOH& FW releases Guidelines for management of monkeypox disease
Medical Dialogues
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September 11, 2024
Monkeypox (MPX) is a viral zoonotic disease with symptoms similar to smallpox, although with less clinical severity. MPX was first discovered in 1958 in colonies of monkeys kept for research, hence the name ‘monkeypox.’ The first human case of...
How Gorillas And Traditional Healers May Inspire Breakthroughs in Medicine
NDTV
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September 12, 2024
The findings suggest these plants could lead to the development of new treatments. Scientists believe that gorillas could offer insights into future drug discoveries through their self-medicating behaviour, according to a new study. Four...
Self-medicating gorillas and traditional healers provide clues for new drug discovery
ScienceDaily
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September 11, 2024
Four plants consumed by wild gorillas in Gabon and used by local communities in traditional medicine show antibacterial and antioxidant properties, find Leresche Even Doneilly Oyaba Yinda from the Interdisciplinary Medical Research Center of...
Four plants eaten by gorillas, also used in traditional medicine, provide clues for new drug discovery
Phys.org
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September 11, 2024
Four plants consumed by wild gorillas in Gabon and used by local communities in traditional medicine show antibacterial and antioxidant properties, find Leresche Even Doneilly Oyaba Yinda from the Interdisciplinary Medical Research Center of...
Experts Believe Gorillas’ Self-medication May Yield Drug Discoveries
Africa.com
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September 12, 2024
Researchers in Gabon have discovered that gorillas may provide clues to new drug discoveries through their self-medicating habits. In a recent study, scientists observed western lowland gorillas in Gabon’s Moukalaba-Doudou National Park eating...
The Latest: Brazilian President Lula threatens to suspend economic deals over Trump's 50% tariffs
Newsday - New York
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that the 50% tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump would trigger the country’s economic reciprocity law. That allows trade, investment and intellectual property agreements to...
Exploring the medicinal plants consumed by wild gorillas
Tech Explorist
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September 11, 2024
Four plants consumed by wild gorillas in Gabon and used by local communities in traditional medicine show antibacterial and antioxidant properties, find Leresche Even Doneilly Oyaba Yinda from the Interdisciplinary Medical Research Center of...
Why gorillas might be spending more time in trees than on land, new study reveals
The Times of India
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Researchers have discovered that gorillas spend more time in trees than previously assumed. Western and Bwindi mountain gorillas in Gabon and Uganda found that even large males, weighing up to 170kg, used trees substantially. Female gorillas spent...