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In this section, the editors recommend every week what the best or most interesting articles on the website were. This time: Alaska pox, a rapid magma flow, and how does the popular weight loss drug Wegovy work?
What is Alaskapox? Doctors report first death from virus
An Alaska man has died from Alaska pox, the first fatality from the recently discovered virus.
According to a report Alaska health authorities said the man had a weakened immune system prior to the infection due to his cancer treatments. The report describes the man as an “elderly” but does not specify an age.
What is Alaskapox and how dangerous is the virus?
Underground magma flow in Iceland was the fastest ever
The eruption near Grindavik, Iceland, on February 8. Image: Iceland Civil Defense/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images.
On November 10, 2023, a huge underground crack 15 kilometers long and 8 meters wide at its widest point opened in Iceland. That fissure quickly filled with magma. So fast in fact that the authors of a paper in the scientific journal Science calling it the fastest magma flow ever.
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Diet hype: how does Wegovy slimming drug work?
Beeld: Lise Aaserud/NTB/ANP.
It was according to the scientific journal Science the breakthrough of 2023: the type 2 diabetes drug Ozempic. As early as 2017, the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk received permission from the medicines authority to market it. So why is it only labeled Science Breakthrough of the Year six years later? This has everything to do with the fact that the medicine has a rather favorable side effect: people lose weight.
How is that possible?
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