Tag: featured
89% lung cancer cases detected late in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi – Despite the fact that lung cancer causes more deaths each year than the combined mortality rates of breast, colorectal and prostate cancer, a staggering 89 per cent of patients in the emirate of Abu Dhabi continue to […]
HSA warns of illegal weight loss pills
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) yesterday alerted the public to two illegal weight loss products which have landed two people in hospital. After taking Nutri Drops Grapefruit Diet for more than a month, a female teen suffered hallucinations and was […]
Sweet temptations mask harmful substance
A new form of addiction is sugar-coated and the sweetness is masking the danger to young people. Drug pushers have come up with a novel way of getting young people hooked on drugs: Sweets laced with cannabis. It is all […]
New glasses bring color to the colorblind
EnChroma this week announced a new line of EnChroma Cx eyewear intended for the colorblind to safely engage in sports and other activities while distinguishing more color. Using the company’s Digital Color Boost technology, the Cx lenses work by removing […]
Seattle Genetics and Takeda Report Phase 3 AETHERA Clinical Trial Data from ADCETRIS(R) (Brentuximab Vedotin) in Post-Transplant Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients at Risk of Relapse at ASH Annual Meeting
SAN FRANCISCO – Seattle Genetics, Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) today reported data demonstrating that Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients at risk of relapse following an autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) who received ADCETRIS (brentuximab vedotin) as consolidation therapy […]
Salons warned against offering ‘miracle’ products
Abu Dhabi – Hairdressing salons and beauty parlours in the capital have been cautioned against offering products that claim to offer miraculous weight loss or hair growth due to fears they could be harmful. At a recent lecture organised by […]
How poor home hygiene spreads cold and flu
Dubai – Have you ever noticed how cough, cold and flu are uninvited guests at your home, moving from one family member to another? Well, now we know why. The culprit is poor home hygiene that makes these germs take […]
East, West medicine join hands to study dry eye
In a novel study, researchers will look into how effective traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is in treating dry eye and whether this works well with Western medical treatments. Physicians from the Singapore Eye Research Institute (Seri) and the Singapore Chung […]
Choose bed nets over insecticide to tackle malaria
Bed nets is the most cost-effective solution to tackling malaria. Spraying insecticides indoors offers children no additional protection from malaria when bed nets are used, a study said on Tuesday, as malaria cases and deaths worldwide continue to fall. A […]
‘We were slow’: WHO admits mistakes in Ebola response
The head of the World Health Organisation conceded on Wednesday that the UN body was slow to respond to the outbreak of Ebola that has now killed more than 6,300 people in west Africa. “It is fair to say the […]
