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India gets its first ‘weekly’ injectible drug for Type 2 diabetes
Diabetes is one of the most haunting diseases to prevail in the world. In India, the number of patients suffering from the same is increasing day by day. Out of the two types of diabetes, it is believed that Type […]
Rising obesity among young set to worsen diabetes rate in Singapore
Rising obesity in children and young adults will push up the rate of diabetes in Singapore – already among the highest in the developed world – going by recent studies. Professor Chia Kee Seng, dean of the Saw Swee Hock […]
Hospital offers living donor liver transplant
UC San Diego Health is now performing live donor liver transplants. “Unlike any other internal organ, the liver can regrow,” said said Alan Hemming, MD, professor of surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine and chief of Transplantation and […]
India has second most number of smokers worldwide
India has the second most number of tobacco smokers in the world, says a new study published in BMJ Global Health. The number of male smokers increased by 36% to 108 million between 1998 and 2015. Cigarettes are also replacing […]
Johnson and Johnson to pay US$72 mln in lawsuit
Johnson and Johnson (J&J) was ordered to pay US$72 million to a woman who died of ovarian cancer, allegedly because of the use of the company’s talcum powder. A jury in the state of Missouri, US, ordered J&J to pay […]
Brazil to use gamma rays to fight Zika virus
Brazil will be soon be using gamma rays to stop the spread of Zika virus in the region. Gamma rays will sterilize male mosquitoes to stop them from reproducing. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will send a cobalt-60 gamma […]
Mars recalls chocolate bars
After a small piece of red plastic was found in one Snickers bar purchased in Germany, Mars Inc. has made a precautionary decision to voluntarily recall a selection of Snickers, Mars, Milky Way and Celebrations products produced in its Netherlands […]
Pope Francis okays contraception to cope with Zika virus
In his in-flight interview from Juarez to Rome, Pope Francis answered questions from the press, including his thoughts on contraception and the Zika virus. The virus is linked to babies born with too small heads. Paloma García Ovejero asked the […]
Chinese people eat too much salt.
Yongning Wu, Ph.D., of the China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China, and colleagues compared salt and sodium consumption in China in 2000 with 2009-2012. The study appears in the February 16 issue of JAMA. he World […]
Air pollution kills 5.5 million every year
Air pollution kills 5.5 million people worldwide every year. More than half of these deaths are from India and China. The new study, presented today at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), […]
