"Aizen Musume," a queen of Aizen Festival, waves to the crowd in Osaka on June 30, 2023, during the traditional festival heralding the advent of summer in the western Japan city. (Kyodo) The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- WASHINGTON - U.S. regulators on Thursday formally approved an Alzheimer's drug developed by Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai Co. and U.S. firm Biogen Inc. that has become the world's first medicine shown to slow down the early stages of the degenerative brain disease.

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