Mon 31 July 2023: In a significant ruling, a US court has prohibited Johnson & Johnson from using the bankruptcy of one of its subsidiaries as a means to coerce thousands of cancer patients into dropping their cases and accepting a settlement offer. The appeals court made it unequivocal that a company must be genuinely […]
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Sun 30 July 2023: The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is the specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organization, has declared aspartame may be a possible carcinogenic hazard to humans. Another branch of the WHO, the Joint WHO and Food and Agriculture Organization’s Expert Committee on Food Additives has assessed the risk […]
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Mon 24 July 2023: South Africa’s national health department recently invited public comment on regulations for warning labels on food packaging. The regulations specify how pre-packaged food should be labelled. Broadly speaking, “front-of-pack” labels provide information about the overall nutritional quality of foods and beverages. The aim is to allow consumers to make healthier food choices. […]
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People being treated at a crowded hospital in Dhaka [Nazmul Islam/Al Jazeera] Mon 24 July 2023: Dhaka, Bangladesh – Bangladesh is grappling with a deadly dengue outbreak as heavy monsoon rains in the country cause widespread infections and fill hospitals. Health experts in the South Asian nation of 170 million people say the disease has already reached […]
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Fri 21 July 2023: UN health innovation initiative Unitaid warned on Wednesday that the failure to implement tuberculosis contact tracing and prevention could lead to close to one million deaths by 2035. The UN agency insisted that implementing a combined strategy of identifying household contacts and providing TB preventive treatment is cost-effective. Unitaid said it […]
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Tue 18 July 2023: A new drug has been hailed as a “breakthrough” after it was found to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by 60 percent if started when patients are in the earliest stages of the brain-wasting disease, according to a new study. The drug, donanemab, has been shown to slow progression of […]
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Fri 14 July 2023: Europe’s drugs regulator has informed BBC News that it is carrying out a review of a few weight-loss jabs after it was alerted about the possibility of them leading to suicide and self-harm among users. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) was notified about the development by member state Iceland after three […]
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metamorworks/Shutterstock Mon 10 July 2023: From sleep trackers to wakefulness drugs, the 21st century has seen an influx of new technology that could radically alter the way we sleep. Many of these new technologies chase the dream of optimised slumber. They promise to help tailor our sleep schedules to fit around our social lives, help […]
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Thu 06 July 2023: The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) has appealed to all potential and existing blood donors, who are due to donate, to visit blood donation sites amid severe blood stock shortages. In a statement, the SANBS said the current weather conditions and a higher than usual demand for blood have sent […]
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Wed 05 July 2023: Poverty-stricken Indians are trying to sell their organs on Facebook while scammers cash in on misery. One morning in February 2020, a couple of months after she had an accident and was unable to work, Surya decided to sell one of her kidneys. The mother of two girls – already reeling […]
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