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The FDA has seized “thousands of units” of counterfeit weight-loss injection Ozempic which have no information about the drug’s identity, quality or safety.
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FDA starts crackdown against fake Ozempic weight-loss drug 

HQ Team December 22, 2023: The FDA has seized “thousands of units” of counterfeit weight-loss injection Ozempic which have no information about the

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The World Health Organization has added a second malaria vaccine to its list of prequalified vaccines to enable greater access to inoculate children as a primary preventive measure.
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WHO places second malaria jab on ‘list of prequalified vaccines’

HQ Team December 21, 2023: The World Health Organization has added a second malaria vaccine to its list of prequalified vaccines to enable

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The WHO, has included noma in its official list of neglected tropical diseases to expand health services to the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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Noma added to WHO’s list of 21 neglected tropical diseases 

HQ Team December 21, 2023: The WHO, has included noma in its official list of neglected tropical diseases to expand health services to

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The USFDA has approved Calliditas Therapeutics’ oral drug to treat loss of kidney function in adults with primary immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) and at risk of disease progression.
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Sweden’s Calliditas gets FDA nod for oral drug to treat kidney loss function

HQ Team December 21, 2023: Sweden’s Calliditas Therapeutics has got the USFDA green light for its oral drug to treat loss of kidney

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The US drug regulator has termed its Class I recall of Philips magnetic resonance systems as the “most serious” type.
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Recall of Philips imaging devices ‘most serious’: USFDA says

HQ Team December 21, 2023: The US drug regulator has termed its Class I recall of Philips magnetic resonance systems as the “most

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Pfizer’s last-stage experimental trials for treating multi-drug-resistant bacteria have yielded positive results, the US-based company announced.
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Alarming impact of antimicrobial resistance on mortality in Africa

HQ Team December 20, 2023: Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine

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Patients who brush their teeth may be saving themselves from hospital-acquired pneumonia and other outcomes, according to a study by US researchers.
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Toothbrushing in ICU may save you from hospital-acquired pneumonia

HQ Team December 20, 2023: Patients who brush their teeth may be saving themselves from hospital-acquired pneumonia and other outcomes, according to a

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Covid-19 lung damage
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Caution advised amid rise in Covid cases linked to JN.1 subvariant

HQ Team December 19, 2023: An increase in Covid-19 cases across the world is causing concern. The surge is attributed to the detection

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The receptor of Oxytocin, a hormone considered essential to forming social bonds, may not play the role that scientists have assigned it for the past 30 years, according to US scientists.
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Opinion: Sickle Cell Disease and gene therapy

By K. Leelamoni December 19, 2023: Recent reports about the FDA’s approval of gene therapy to treat Sickle Cell Anemia mark a major

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The European Union has announced a 1.23 billion euro initiative to prevent mental health issues and find affordable treatments for its 84 million patients in the bloc.
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KarXT by Karuna Therapeutics offers hope for improved schizophrenia management

HQ Team, December 18, 2023: For individuals grappling with schizophrenia, the road to treatment is often marked by a lifelong commitment to antipsychotic

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