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#291 | Get cured or get arrested; Wanna exercise? Get rested; Bees dying even when not deforested

Hello, and welcome back to a relatively light Kable where all the news on the One Health front is, unfortunately, all doom and gloom.

In the US, the pharma industry is lobbying to import non-human primates into the country.

Novartis, with a renewed focus on gene therapies, is partnering with Voyager Therapeutics once again to use its proprietary capsid discovery platform for CNS therapies in a deal with an upfront payment of $54 million.

In Italy, ministers are upset with a proposed ban on smoking that will include outdoor areas within the gamut of an existing ban on smoking in indoor settings.

On the eve of Women's Day, a study reports that women leaders have been consistently sidelined at multilateral organisations. Women have held just 12% of the top jobs at 33 of the biggest multilateral institutions since 1945, and more than a third of those bodies, including all four large development banks, have never been led by a woman. The study is due to be released at this week's meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. This reminds us: we're offering a free year of The Kable to all women in life sciences. Send this email to all the science ladies you know so they can claim their free year!

And finally, in the US, an arrest warrant has been issued for a woman who refused to get treated for TB.