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British drugmaker, GSK Plc.’s multiple myeloma drug, Blenrep, reduced the risk of disease progression or death by about 50% when compared to a standard-of-care combination, according to the company.
Drugs Health

India grapples with thalassaemia crisis with 42 million carriers

HQ Team May 8, 2025: As the world observes World Thalassaemia Day on May 8, India faces a harsh reality—it is often called.

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Billionaire Bill Gates will donate more than $200 billion over the next two decades to prevent newborn child and maternal deaths, combat infectious diseases, Alzheimer’s, and close down the Gates Foundation on December 31, 2045.
Drugs Health Medical

Gates Foundation to shut in 2045, pledges $200 billion in next 20 years

HQ Team May 8, 2025: Billionaire Bill Gates will donate more than $200 billion over the next two decades to prevent newborn child.

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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 Medical

Addressing India’s asthma crisis: Ensuring access to treatments for all

HQ Team May 7, 2025: It was World Asthma Day on May 6, and let us see how India has fared in the.

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Rats living in urban areas spread a deadly disease called Leptospirosis as they migrate within the cities, according to Tufts University researchers, who also discovered a method to test the kidneys of the mammals.
Climate Health Research

Rats in urban areas spread Leptospirosis as they migrate: Tufts study

HQ Team May 6, 2025: Rats living in urban areas spread a deadly disease called Leptospirosis as they migrate within the cities, according.

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Social determinants such as quality housing, education, and job opportunities can influence people’s health outcomes more than genetic influences or access to healthcare, according to a WHO report.
Climate Health Medical

Housing, education, jobs vital to health outcomes, not genes: WHO

HQ Team May 6, 2025: Social determinants such as quality housing, education, and job opportunities can influence people’s health outcomes more than genetic.

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In countries with low or middle incomes, physically punishing children result in poor health, lower academic performance and impaired social-emotional development, a study finds.
Health Medical Research

Physical punishment of kids leads to poor health: NYU researchers find

HQ Team May 6, 2025: In countries with low or middle incomes, physically punishing children result in poor health, lower academic performance and.

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Nuravax Inc. and its partner, the Institute for Molecular Medicine, have received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance its Alzheimer’s vaccine to human trials.
Drugs Health Pharma

Nuravax’s Alzheimer’s vaccine gets $3m grant to enter human trials

HQ Team May 5, 2025: Nuravax Inc. and its partner, the Institute for Molecular Medicine, have received a $3 million grant from the.

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Scientists have developed a test by studying how an abnormally-shaped protein in the spinal fluid can detect 90% of Parkinson’s disease in patients, even before symptoms appear.
Drugs Health Research

New Parkinson’s test to detect disease even before symptoms appear

HQ Team May 5, 2025: Scientists have developed a test by studying how an abnormally-shaped protein in the spinal fluid can detect 90%.

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The Global Virus Network warned of an avian influenza currently circulating in the US, spreading to humans and urged enhanced surveillance, biosecurity measures and preparations for a potential human-to-human transmission.
Drugs Health Pharma

Global virologists see potential for an H5N1 pandemic, urge rapid steps

HQ Team May 5, 2025: The Global Virus Network warned of an avian influenza currently circulating in the US, spreading to humans and.

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UK scientists at biotech company Stablepharma have developed a tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that is completely stable at room temperature and does not need to be refrigerated or frozen.
Drugs Health Pharma

UK company starts trial on first ‘fridge-free’ tetanus-diphtheria vaccine

HQ Team May 1, 2025: UK scientists at biotech company Stablepharma Ltd. have developed a tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that is completely stable at room.

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