Image copyright SPL England has failed to close the gap in the nations with the best performance when it comes to cancer treatment, despite 20 years of attempts, an analysis suggests. The …
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Studies have repeatedly linked maternal smoking during pregnancy, with reduced sperm counts in male offspring. A team of researchers at the University of Lund in Sweden found that regardless of mother's exposure …
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It is estimated that 23% to 27% of new cases of asthma in children are directly caused by obesity, new research indicates. "In the absence of overweight and obesity, 10% of all …
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The graph shows high activity of a transcription factor network that includes the Onecut2 molecule in tumors of patients whose prostate cancer resisted hormone therapy (above the purple bar) in comparison to …
Read More »Nigeria: The Second Phase of Nigeria's Biggest-Ever Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaign Gets Underway
press release The Government of Nigeria – with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and UNICEF aims to vaccinate 26.2 million people this year through preventive campaigns. …
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Children around the world are not moving enough to maintain healthy growth and development, according to a global report released today. The Global Active Alliance for Healthy Children (AHKGA) report compared 49 …
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It is not the usual way for top scientists to announce their findings to the world, but on Monday, Jiankui released a video proclaiming that he had produced the world's first human …
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Almost three months after he arrived at CHEO, suffering from a rare polio-like condition, four-year-old Xavier Downton is back in Rockland and getting ready to go back to school. Life is very …
Read More »New cost-saving Aids drug tender due in December
Six companies had registered three-in-one pills containing dolutegravir, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and lamivudine with the SA Health Products Regulatory Agency, according to Pillay. The latest company to announce the registration of its …
Read More »53k children vaccinated on the first day of measles and rubella | News from Bareilly
Bareilly: 53,352 children were vaccinated in the district of Bareilly on Monday, the first day of the campaign against measles and rubella. According to officials, children enrolled in 257 schools were vaccinated. …
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