Hepatitis C cleared in eight weeks, and a drawer hid a new dinosaur

The median age was 35. Half took sofosbuvir-velpatasvir for eight weeks (443 people) and half for the standard twelve (437). Among those who finished and came back for the test twelve weeks later, 410 of 415 on the short course cleared the virus, 98.8 percent, against 397 of 401 on the long one, 99.0 percent 264. Counting everyone who never returned, the figures were 93.5 and 91.8 percent. Nobody had a drug-related serious adverse event or stopped because of one 264.

It is about 120 million years old and the first known European member of the megaraptorans, bipedal carnivores with narrow skulls, strong arms and big curved claws 3. Micro-CT scans built 3D models of the braincase, and an hourglass-shaped crest marked it as a new species 290. Everything else is inferred from relatives. Lead author Cassius Morrison puts it at three to four metres long, roughly as tall as a person, probably feathered, with claws of 10 to 20 centimetres, eating small dinosaurs, lizards and mammals in a role like the modern hyena's 3.

Several mosques are already connected. The idea came from Dr Inoue Hiroshi of Kyoto University while he studied deadly Sumatra earthquakes, and his argument is about upkeep: "the mosque speaker is maintained by the people" 266.

Across three studies with 1,563 participants, revealing that inner remorse, such as thinking an apology instead of speaking it, raised both decisional and emotional forgiveness of the fictional offender 98. Forgiving the character then prompted participants to forgive actual people who had wronged them, according to the report in Frontiers in Psychology 98.

Higher brown fat activity tracked with more cardiometabolic benefit, with the armpit depot the most strongly tied, and with a lower incidence of anxiety and depression 97. The same analysis pointed at angiotensin receptor blockers, and in NIH-funded mouse work, losartan boosted brown fat activity and metabolism 97.

In Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh from the late 1980s, crews dug narrow channels into mudflats in a fish-skeleton pattern so the tide could flush them. The government also stopped felling and paid people, women especially, to plant instead of cutting firewood 263.

At the lowest dose there were no serious adverse events or dose-limiting toxicities, and an independent board cleared a tripling of the dose 262. Two of the three had at least 28 percent of tested visual-field points improve by more than 4 decibels at day 56 262.