Thu 17 February 2022: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp and philanthropist, visited Pakistan on Thursday, meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan to discuss polio eradication in one of the world’s last two endemic countries. “This is the final, and hardest, phase of the eradication effort, but by keeping up the momentum and staying vigilant, […]
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Wed 09 February 2022: The number of people dying each year from diseases caused by tobacco smoking is predicted to double in the next eight years, from more than 8 million now. Every year, Feb. 9 is designated as World Smoking Boycott Day by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness about the dangerous […]
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Wed 09 February 2022: Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it expects 2022 sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral pill to top $54bn, but that fell short of lofty Wall Street estimates and its shares were off about 3 percent. Still, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said final sales for its oral COVID-19 antiviral, Paxlovid, could […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) urged for the availability of cancer care in high- and low-income countries to be addressed on World Cancer Day on Friday. According to the WHO, cancer is one of the main causes of mortality worldwide, with a projected 20 million people diagnosed and 10 million people […]
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Fri 04 February 2022: A region crossing the folded surface of the top of the brain, called the dorsal precentral gyrus, plays an essential role in how people use the sound of their voices to control how they want the words to sound, a new study shows. The ability to take cues from one’s own […]
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Sat 29 January 2022: The BA.2 subtype of the Omicron coronavirus variant appears to have a substantial growth advantage over the currently predominant BA.1 type, the United Kingdom’s Health Security Agency has said. UKHSA said on Friday there was an increased growth rate of BA.2 compared with BA.1 in all regions of England where there were enough […]
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Sat 29 January 2022: Russian scientists and doctors have installed in a monkey’s brain a neural implant designed to restore vision through transmitting images directly into the brain with special equipment, the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) said on Wednesday. “FEFU Medical Center neurosurgeon Artur Biktimirov has successfully performed a two-hour surgery to put the […]
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Thu 27 January 2022: How past exposure to other coronaviruses can stop people from catching COVID-19 even if they live with someone who has tested positive. Plus, how to recognise the symptoms of a blood clot. Many of us will be familiar with this scenario: Someone we know has tested positive for COVID-19 but despite […]
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Tue 25 January 2022: More than 1.2 million people died in 2019 from infections caused by bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, higher than HIV/AIDS or malaria. The new Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance report, published in The Lancet on Thursday, revealed that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was directly responsible for an estimated 1.27 million deaths and […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: On Thursday, a UN-backed organization announced that it had reached agreements with more than two dozen generic drug manufacturers to produce versions of Merck’s COVID-19 pill for distribution to 105 developing countries. According to the Medicines Patent Pool, the agreements will allow drug companies to manufacture both the raw ingredients and […]
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