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Extreme heat due to climate change, combined with wildfires and desert dust, is having a pernicious effect on air quality, human health and the environment, a WMO report stated.
Climate

India dominates list of world’s most polluted cities with 13 featured in top 20

HQ Team March 11, 2025: A recent World Air Quality Report 2024 by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir, has highlighted that 13

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women exercising in a group for elderly
Health

Exercise reduces falls in elderly women, especially those with polypharmacy

HQ Team March 11, 2025: A recent study conducted by the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital has shown that an

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Intensive diet and lifestyle changes may forestall a cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease and make progress for patients during early stages, a study finds.
Health Research

Parkinson’s Disease cases to hit 25 million worldwide by 2050

HQ Team March 10, 2025: A recent study published in The BMJ forecasts a significant rise in Parkinson’s disease cases globally, with projections

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Seventeen types of cancer are common in US millennials and the incidence rate for some forms is two to three times higher in people born in 1990 than in 1995, a study reveals.
Health Research

Aspirin shows promise in preventing cancer metastasis

HQ Team March 10, 2025: University of Cambridge scientists have uncovered the mechanism behind how aspirin could reduce the spread of certain cancers

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IntraBio Inc, a biotechnology company focused on rare and neurodegenerative diseases, got the US regulator’s nod for a drug to treat a certain type of Niemann-Pick disease in adults and pediatric patients weighing about 15 kilograms.
Health

Primary care clinics can help detect 10% of cancers caused by genes

HQ Team March 10, 2025: Patient screening in primary care settings can detect up to 10% of cancers caused by genes. Easily available

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obesity
Health Research

Over half of adults and a third of children projected to be overweight by 2050

HQ Team March 8, 2025: A study published in The Lancet by the Global Burden of Disease Study BMI Collaborators reveals alarming statistics

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Maternal deaths have risen or stagnated globally over recent years, and every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the WHO.
Health

Haemorrhage and preeclampsia lead in pregnancy-related deaths: WHO study

HQ Team March 8, 2025: A study by the World Health Organization (WHO), Global and Regional Causes of Maternal Deaths 2009–2020, has identified severe

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Johnson & Johnson plans to acquire Israel’s privately-held V-Wave Ltd., for an upfront payment of $600 million, according to a statement from the US-based company.
Drugs Pharma

Johnson & Johnson ends late-stage trial of depression drug aticaprant

HQ Team March 7, 2025: Johnson & Johnson is discontinuing the Phase 3 VENTURA clinical trial of its experimental depression drug aticaprant after

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pollution
Climate

Half of world’s CO2 emissions linked to 36 fossil fuel companies: Report

HQ Times March 7, 2025: A report by Carbon Majors has Coal India listed second among 36 fossil fuel companies responsible for half

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Novo Nordisk will pay Gensaic, Inc., a biotechnology company, an upfront payment of $354 million for the latter’s technology to discover tissue-targeting molecules.
Drugs Medical Pharma

Novo Nordisk to pay US-based Gensaic $354 million upfront in licensing deal

HQ Team March 5, 2025: Novo Nordisk will pay Gensaic, Inc., a biotechnology company, an upfront payment of $354 million for the latter’s

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