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Controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial championed by RFK Jr cleared to proceed in Guinea-Bissau

Danish researchers will withhold the recommended birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine from thousands of newborns in Guinea-Bissau after an ethics committee approved the study, prompting four resignations in protest.

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Early-onset cancers rising in under-50s, World Cancer Research Fund report finds

Two decades of data from England, the US and the Netherlands show several cancer types becoming more common in people under 50, and scientists are still working out why.