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Wegovy, other weight-loss drugs, scrutinised over reports of suicidal thoughts

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received 265 reports of suicidal thoughts in patients taking these or similar medicines since 2010; more than half of the narrative summaries describe suicidal thoughts appearing shortly after the person started the medicine or increased the dose from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/bI7ZN0r

The slippery slope to the Kurunthurmalai hilltop

Fourteen years after the civil war, Tamils in Sri Lanka’s north and east are confronted with a new conflict. There are growing contestations over land, sparked by Buddhist structures springing up in a ‘restoration’ drive. Meera Srinivasan reports on how archaeological excavations are the latest manifestation of a lingering ethnic conflict from | The Hindu https://ift.tt/IPHy4Fj