Thu 25 February 2021: Decades ago, blue lights helped shoppers scope out sales. Today they’re helping urologists scope out cells, specifically those of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. UW Medicine urologists with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance possess a mechanism that makes the tumors glow bright pink. All the better to see them. “Seventy percent of bladder […]
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Sun 21 February 2021: Many of us dream about having our teeth whitened one day as we look at celebrities’ dazzling smiles on the front pages. It is all-natural that stains appear on the surface of our teeth after drinking coffee, tea, or some fruit juices. Many whitening substances can help you to get rid […]
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Fri 19 February 2021: Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta, the national body responsible for issuing religious edicts, said yesterday that there is no objection to the state taking whatever means and measures it deems necessary to regulate the country’s birth rate. “Islam differentiates between preventing pregnancy and abortion, and it permits the former if there is a […]
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Sat 13 February 2021: It is the classic romantic combination: St. Valentine’s Day in Paris, the city of love, and a gift of red roses. But some Parisian florists are trying to wean customers off the flowers because of their ecological cost. Most roses sold in France in the run-up to St. Valentine’s Day, a peak […]
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Sat 13 February 2021: Marking another marvel in medicine, scientists in the UK have now come up with a test to detect womb cancer using urine samples. At present doctors use an intolerably painful method which includes insertion of a narrow telescope into the womb to examine it and remove the lethal cells. However, this test, […]
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Thu 04 February 2021: GENEVA – Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most common form of the disease, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. “For the first time, breast cancer now constitutes the most commonly occurring cancer globally,” Andre Ilbawi, a cancer specialist at the WHO, told a U.N. briefing ahead of World Cancer […]
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Mon 01 February 2021: A new study from Shanghai Mental Health Center in eastern China’s Shanghai province suggests a “nap in the afternoon for healthier mental ability.” According to the study, sleeping, or napping, for less than two hours in the afternoon boosts locational awareness, verbal fluency and working memory. As part of the study, […]
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Sat 23 January 2021: Smoking and drinking depress the immune system and so could reduce the effectiveness of vaccines for illnesses such as the flu and coronavirus, according to a senior Turkish physician. Dr. Cevdet Erdol from the Health Sciences University in the Turkish capital Ankara told Anadolu Agency on Saturday that the use of […]
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Thu 21 January 2021: Egypt will begin collecting an additional one Egyptian pound ($0.064) for every pack of cigarettes sold in the local market starting July, the state-run General Authority for Health Insurance announced yesterday. The authority said in a statement that the increase in tariffs would apply to both “local and international cigarette brands,” […]
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Thu 21 January 2021: Touted by makers as a “healthy” alternative to traditional nicotine cigarettes, new research indicates the chemicals found in e-cigarettes disrupt the gut barrier and trigger inflammation in the body, potentially leading to a variety of health concerns. In the study, published in the journal iScience, Soumita Das, PhD, associate professor of pathology, […]
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