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A smartphone can measure the glucose levels of diabetic patients, diagnose disease and detect environmental toxins, with the help of built-in magnetic compasses.
Drugs Medical Pharma

Smartphone’s compass can detect glucose levels, toxins, diseases

HQ Team April 3, 2024: A smartphone can measure the glucose levels of diabetic patients, diagnose disease and detect environmental toxins, with the

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Policymaking and planning should be inclusive, safe and flexible. The “sanity” of a city is the well-being of its residents, and it is time we focus on achieving it.
Climate Health Opinion Pharma

Opinion: ‘Sanity’ is sacrosanct, city residents’ mental health sacred

By Aparna S April 3, 2024: Over the last decade and until 2022 about one-third of India’s 1.4 billion people have become city

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Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, and US-based Launch Therapeutics, have joined hands to speed up the development of an experimental asthma drug.
Drugs Health Pharma

Israel’s Teva in pact with Launch Therapeutics for asthma drug

Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, and US-based Launch Therapeutics, have joined hands to speed up the development of an experimental asthma drug.

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Chickenpox is an acutely contagious disease caused by the VZV. If one person has chicken pox, up to 90% of those close to that person, who are not immune, will also become infected. 
Drugs Health Opinion Pharma

Opinion: Better surveillance, vaccination, key to curb chickenpox

Chickenpox is an acutely contagious disease caused by the VZV. If one person has chicken pox, up to 90% of those close to

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Merck announced its experimental trial on patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension had led to an extension in walking distance and reduced exacerbating the condition by 84%.
Climate Health Medical

Common household chemicals linked to rising neurological disorders: Study

HQ Team April 1, 2024: The surge in neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions over the past decade has raised concerns among medical experts, who

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Overuse of antibiotics
Drugs Health Medical

DoxyPEP can work as morning after pill for STIs

HQ Team April 1, 2024: Preventing the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) might soon be as simple as taking a couple of

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US-based Varda Space Industries’ spacecraft in orbit crystallised a metastable form of a drug for HIV/AIDS — furthering the feasibility of processing pharmaceuticals in microgravity.
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US-based Varda Space crystallises HIV drug in microgravity

 HQ Team March 31, 2024: US-based Varda Space Industries’ spacecraft in orbit crystallised a metastable form of a drug for HIV/AIDS — furthering

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medicines
Health Medical Pharma

5 dead, 140 hospitalised after taking Japanese health supplements

HQ Team March 29, 2024:Five people have died and 143 hospitalised in Japan after consuming health supplements. The Japanese health ministry has warned

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A study to find solutions for treating two new variations of diabetes, type 4 and type 5, is underway in US research institutions as the overall disease population is expected to reach 783 million people by 2045.
Health Medical Pharma

New device uses infrared signals for accurate blood glucose levels

HQ Team March 29, 2024: The last few years have seen many innovative devices that help in monitoring blood sugar without finger pricks.

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Eli Lilly's Omvah gains FDA approval for treating Crohn's disease
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Bristol’s oral drug to treat Crohn’s disease fails remission test

HQ Team March 29, 2024: Bristol Myers Squibb’s final stage clinical trials for its Zeposia oral drug, to treat moderate to severe Crohn’s

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