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AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical company behind developing Covishield vaccine against COVID-19, admitted for the first time in court documents that its vaccine can cause rare side effects, including fatal blood clots and low platelet count. A lawsuit filed against the company in the UK, which sought damages nearing £100 million for
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You may already know about the connection between diet and heart health, but did you know that you can also lower your risk of getting cancer through what you eat? While we can’t control our health entirely, more than 4 in 10 cancers are attributed to modifiable risk factors
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Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, adding that most of those to benefit were infants. That is the equivalent of six lives saved every minute of every year of the half century, the UN health
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The World Health Organization voiced alarm Thursday at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an “extraordinarily high” mortality rate. “This remains I think an enormous concern,” the UN health agency’s chief scientist Jeremy Farrar told reporters in Geneva. The current bird
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When you next see red, don’t snap at your colleagues or scream into a pillow -- writing down your feelings, then shredding or throwing them away is an effective way to calm down, a Japanese study has found. “We expected that our method would suppress anger to some extent,
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The number of new prostate cancer cases around the world will more than double over the next two decades as poorer countries catch up with the ageing of richer nations, according to a Lancet report published Friday. “Our findings suggest that the number of new cases annually will rise from
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The EU’s Food Safety Agency (EFSA) warned on Wednesday of a large-scale bird flu pandemic if the virus becomes transmissible between people as humans lack immunity against the virus. This comes a day after Texas reported that the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, had
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The population of almost every country will be shrinking by the end of the century, a major study said Wednesday, warning that baby booms in developing nations and busts in rich ones will drive massive social change. The fertility rate in half of all nations is already too low to
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A person in the United States is recovering from bird flu after being exposed to dairy cattle, officials said Monday amid rising concern over the current global strain of the virus. It is only the second case of a human testing positive for bird flu in the country, and comes
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Women who have struggled with infertility, are on birth control, or thought they were past their childbearing years are getting pregnant while taking popular weight loss medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, PEOPLE reported on Friday. The phenomenon, dubbed “Ozempic babies,” has prompted women to share their experiences on social
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Many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate, the UN Development Program said Wednesday. Achim Steiner, head of the agency, said that after two decades during which rich and poor countries were coming closer in
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The holy month of Ramadan is set to begin next week marking a period when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, abstaining from food and drink. It can be challenging to prevent overeating after breaking your fast. While eating a lot may provide temporary satisfaction, it can lead to discomfort,
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President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russian scientists were close to creating vaccines for cancer that could soon be available to patients. Putin said in televised comments that “we have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation.” “I hope
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Officials in the US state of Oregon have said they are dealing with a rare human case of bubonic plague that was likely transmitted by a pet cat. The disease, which killed at least a third of Europe’s population in the Middle Ages during a pandemic known as the
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Gene therapy has transformed the lives of people with a genetic disorder that causes painful and unpredictable swelling attacks. Angiodema, thought to affect 50,000 people worldwide, can be seriously debilitating, affect airways, and occasionally prove fatal. Patients treated with a single dose of gene therapy Crispr-Cas9 showed little sign
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A new form of oral insulin, which may soon be tested in humans, can be taken as an alternative to syringes or insulin pumps. Scientists have developed a way to provide insulin orally, via a capsule or sugar-free chocolate, and successfully tested it on animals. This new insulin will be