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Tailored dementia care: Strategies for enhancing quality of life at home

Alvina Miller May7 2025: Dementia, a term used to describe a group of cognitive impairments, significantly impacts the quality of life of affected.

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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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Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved a new under-the-skin injection version of the cancer therapy, nivolumab (Opdivo), offering a quicker administration option for eligible patients than the currently available drip treatment. 
Drugs Medical Pharma

UK regulator clears subcutaneous injection of Bristol Myers for cancers

HQ Team May 1, 2025: Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved a new under-the-skin injection version of the cancer.

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