In the late 1990s, doctors treating sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies that is almost always fatal without treatment, still relied on melarsoprol, an arsenic-based drug that killed roughly one patient in 20. One patient given melarsoprol in 2003 later recalled the injection “felt like fire” being injected into his veins, turning […]
India and Israel were the only countries to oppose a Pakistan-backed UN resolution on conventional arms control. New Delhi argued that national security concerns extend beyond regional boundaries and…
