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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 Health Research

Air pollution linked to increased risk of head and neck cancers

HQ Team November 22, 2024: Air pollution is a human carcinogenic and is associated with lung, breast and gastric cancers. Long-term exposure to.

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Health Medical

Wearable ultrasound patch to measure blood pressure

HQ Team November 22, 2024: Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a wearable ultrasound patch that continuously monitors blood.

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Moderna Inc., a biotechnology company, and Merck announced that an experimental personalised cancer vaccine, based on the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, has received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the USFDA.
Health Research

Research identifies RNA structures linked to Parkinson’s

HQ Team November 20, 2024: A team of researchers from Kumamoto University has found that unique RNA structures known as G-quadruplexes (G4s) facilitate.

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A drug that mimics the benefits of rigorous exercise has been developed on mice by scientists at the University of Florida.
Health

Personality traits influence physical activity and sedentary behavior

HQ team November 20, 2024: Your inclination to get up from the couch to go for a run or remain slouched there is.

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More than 30 nations, which combined account for 47% of global methane emissions from organic waste, signed a pact to reduce levels by 2030.
Climate Health Medical

Pact to cut methane emissions from organic waste signed at COP29

More than 30 nations, which combined account for 47% of global methane emissions from organic waste, signed a pact to reduce levels by.

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A sedentary lifestyle of more than 10.6 hours a day increases heart disease by up to 60%, according to a study by Mass General Brigham researchers.
Health Medical Pharma

Sitting for 10.6 hours a day increases heart disease risk by 60%

A sedentary lifestyle of more than 10.6 hours a day increases heart disease by up to 60%, according to a study by Mass.

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Alzheimer's disease has an initial silent and slow phase before the second stage of a destructive accumulation of plaques, tangles and other symptoms occurs, a brain-mapping study funded by the National Institutes of Health finds.
Health Uncategorized

EU regulators reverse course, approve Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi

HQ Team November 19, 2024: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) granted conditional approval for lecanemab, for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease in.

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Amazon is investing $4 billion to take up an unspecified minority stake in artificial intelligence systems company Anthropic.
Health

Case for integrating artificial intelligence for clinical diagnosis process

HQ Team November 19, 2024: The emergence of AI technology as a diagnostic tool is slowly changing how health professionals view patient care..

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Health

Shingles vaccines proposed for older adults to prevent cardiovascular risks

HQ Team November 16, 2024: Shingles vaccination has proven effective in preventing herpes zoster and its related complications. Recent research suggests that the.

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Measles cases worldwide have risen 20% year-on-year in 2023 to about 10.3 million due to inadequate access to vaccines, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization.
Drugs Health Pharma

Measles cases surge worldwide, access to vaccine is ‘inadequate’: WHO

Measles cases worldwide have risen 20% year-on-year in 2023 to about 10.3 million due to inadequate access to vaccines, according to new estimates.

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