US smokers need photo ID to prove new age limit set by the FDA
The US drug regulator raised the age limit of people who want to buy tobacco products by three years to 30, and retailers.
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Global health body appeals for $87.4 million to contain mpox spread
The World Health Organization has appealed for $87.4 million over the next six months to stop and contain the current global outbreak of.
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Gabon reports first case of mpox, Burundi worst-hit in African continent
A 30-year-old male, who stayed for two weeks in Uganda, has tested positive for mpox in the Central African nation of Gabon, the.
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New mpox virus strain, sexual contact, behind a surge in cases: WHO
A new strain of monkeypox virus named as MPXV clade Ib, which originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo recently, is behind.
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Covid-19 vaccines saved 1.6 million lives in Europe, most in Omicron wave
Vaccinations have saved more than 1.6 million lives in the WHO European Region and Covid-19 is lurking around the world menacingly with its.
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WHO: 40 athletes participating in Olympic Games test Covid-19 positive
The WHO’s event-based surveillance system has reported that at least 40 athletes participating in the Olympic Games in France had tested positive for.
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France’s Servier gets FDA green light for oral drug to treat brain cancer
Servier Pharmaceuticals, the US arm of a French pharmaceutical company, got approval from the US drug regulator for a once-daily pill to treat.
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Scientists develop potential compound to neutralise flesh-eating bacteria
A family of antimicrobial compounds can neutralise necrotising fasciitis, a deadly bacterial skin infection that is also known as flesh-eating disease, when tested.
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Oxford spin-off develops new test to detect heart attacks 10 yrs in advance
Caristo Diagnostics, founded by four Oxford University cardiologists, has developed an AI-assisted software that can detect cardiac events a decade in advance.
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WHO warns on drug-resistant Klebsiella Pneumonie spread
HQ Team August 4, 2024: The WHO has warned about the rising global incidence of hypervirulent and multi-resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae (hvKp) infections. The.