Fri 11 August 2023: On Friday, Uzbekistan started a trial over the deaths of 65 children last year that were connected to tainted cough syrups, revealing for the first time a far greater death toll than before, Reuters reported. Only 20 deaths associated with the medications, which were made by Marion Biotech in India, had […]
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Sat 05 August 2023: United Nations agencies on Tuesday kicked off World Breastfeeding Week, emphasizing the need for greater breastfeeding support across all workplaces. In the last decade, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding has increased by a remarkable 10 percentage points, to 48 per cent globally, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World […]
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Fri 04 August 2023: Indian drug manufacturer Riemann Labs has been asked to halt production after its cough syrup was linked to a string of deaths among children in Cameroon. In a written response to a lawmaker’s question read out in parliament, the Indian Health Ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) had issued alerts […]
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Thu 03 August 2023: 5.6 billion people, or 71% of the world’s population, are currently protected by at least one best practice policy to reduce fatalities from tobacco use, said a report published by World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday. The Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded report on the global tobacco pandemic seeks to safeguard the general public […]
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Tue 01 August 2023: Thanks to advancements in science and technology, including artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge garnered from the COVID-19 pandemic, the average human lifespan is predicted to reach 120 years within a few decades, Swedish Television (SVT) reported on Sunday. “Our prognosis is a lifespan between 100 and 120 years within 50 years […]
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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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