Fri 03 January 2020: (AFP) The US government announced Thursday it was banning most flavored e-cigarettes in a bid to curb the rising tide of youth vaping, but under industry pressure it stopped short of the full ban promised in September by the White House. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said cartridge-based e-cigarettes in […]
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A yellow box indicates where an artificial intelligence (AI) system found cancer hiding inside breast tissue, in an undated photo released by Northwestern University in Chicago, Jan. 1, 2020. (Northwestern University via Reuters) Thu 02 January 2020: (REUTERS) An artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer […]
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Sat 14 December 2019: (AFP) United Nations climate negotiations were deadlocked deep into overtime and through the night, with even the best-case outcome likely to fall well short of what science says is needed to avert a future ravaged by global warming. The COP25 summit in Madrid arrives on the heels of climate-related disasters across […]
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Fri 13 December 2019: The chief of the Department of Health has warned people of the danger of balloons, including the risk of fatality, after a case of a balloon exploding in Kanchanaburi province on December 5. “Explosion of balloons is reported frequently, since most of balloons contain hydrogen, which is inflammable, causing balloons to […]
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Wed 11 December 2019: MicroRNAs are responsible for regulating autophagy, concluded a joint research team from the universities of Monash in Australia and Cambridge in the UK. A disorder in autophagy can lead to the aggregation of toxic proteins in the body, and may cause Parkinson and Huntington disease that causes a gradual neurodegeneration. Autophagy […]
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Wed 04 December 2019: (REUTERS) India’s drugs regulator has asked all states to enforce a court directive prohibiting online medicine sales, a senior government official said on Tuesday, raising industry concerns it could disrupt some online businesses. India is yet to finalise regulations for online drug sales, or e-pharmacies, but the growth of several online […]
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Tue 03 December 2019: The hard facts about global warming – a defining issue of our time. Climate change is happening now, and even world leaders meeting for climate talks at this year’s Cop25 know we aren’t doing enough to stop it. In fact, we’re going backwards. The UN says carbon dioxide levels in our […]
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Mon 02 December 2019: Carbon markets are the reemergence of a threat to the world that could obstruct action on climate change, according to a non-governmental organization. “The world faces the reemergence of a threat that could derail urgent action on the climate crisis: Carbon markets are back on the table as a proposed ‘solution’ […]
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Thu 28 November 2019: More than half of the tipping points that could lead to long-term irreversible changes on Earth and threaten civilisation have been activated, a study has warned. The scientists, including Emeritus Professor Will Steffen from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, argued in an article published in the journal Nature that the nine […]
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Thu 28 November 2019: The World Health Organization says cases of measles are continuing to spike globally, with multiple large outbreaks being reported across Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. In an update on Wednesday, the U.N. health agency said Congo has reported more than 250,000 suspected cases this year, including 5,110 deaths. […]
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