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Becoming a breast cancer survivor
An estimated 100,000 people in Malaysia suffer from cancer every year, with most of that number being women, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr.Hilmi Yahaya in earlier reports this year. The five main cancers affecting Malaysians are breast cancer […]
Harnessing the healthcare data revolution
By Alessandro Porro, Senior Vice President, International Sales, APAC, Ipswitch Data is the key element of success in the 21st century business environment. Multiple industries have embraced the data revolution by gathering and analyzing data stored in their organizations. This […]
Stephen Hawking Predicts, “This Pill Will Change Humanity”
Recently Hawking made some comments in an interview with Anderson Cooper about a brain booster that would become the biggest event in human history Stephen Hawking credits his ability to function and maintained focused on such a high level to […]
WHO IARC asked panel not to release weedkiller review documents
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency under the World Health Organization (WHO), advised its academic experts on one of its review panels not to release documents regarding a 2015 review of the weedkiller glyphosate. […]
Study showed parent-led therapy beneficial for kids with autism
A long-term study in the UK has shown that a simple therapy that helps parents interact and communicate better with very young children diagnosed with autism offers benefits years later. The treatment which involved training mothers and fathers to become […]
Mundipharma launches antiemetic for cancer patients in Singapore
Without the appropriate antiemetic prophylaxis (or preventive treatments taken against nausea and vomiting), 70 to 80% of all cancer patients receiving chemotherapy treatments experience one of its most common and distressing side effects called chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). Uncontrolled […]
People choose smaller food portions if they focus on pleasure of eating – study
People can be encouraged to choose smaller, healthier food portions when they focus on the multisensory pleasure (taste, smell, texture) brought about by the food, according to a new research from INSEAD, a graduate business school with campuses in Europe, […]
US FDA approves breakthrough drug as first-line treatment for lung cancer
An immunotherapy drug called pembrolizumab, which was extensively evaluated by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) cancer researcher Dr. Edward Garon, has been approved by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) as first-line treatment for non-small cell lung cancer […]
Indian Institute of Public Health inaugurates new Gandhinagar campus
Sri.Vijaybhai Rupani, Honorable Chief Minister of Gujarat inaugurated the state-of-the-art new campus of the Indian Institute of Public Health – Gandhinagar (IIPHG), the western regional campus of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar […]
New IVF technique resulted in the birth of a baby with 3-parent DNA
The first baby in the world to have DNA from three parents was born after a New York fertility specialist successfully carried out the new “three-parent” in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique. John Zhang, medical director of New Hope Fertility Center […]
