Category: Health

Mon 25 November 2019: Japanese tech giant Toshiba has announced it has developed a blood test that detects various cancer types in a few hours with 99% accuracy. The test, jointly developed with Tokyo Medical University and the National Cancer Center, is claimed to be able to detect a total of 13 different cancer types, […]

Thu 21 November 2019: Philippine police were ordered Wednesday to arrest anyone caught vaping in public, just hours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced he would ban e-cigarettes. The abrupt prohibition, revealed by Duterte late Tuesday adds to a growing global backlash against a product once promoted as less harmful than tobacco smoking. Duterte, a […]

Thu 14 November 2019: World Diabetes Day: On November 14, World Diabetes Day is universally celebrated. This day is meant to raise awareness about diabetes, a condition which is widely common in India. Diabetes is essentially referred to a group of diseases that result in too much sugar in the blood. Type 1, Type 2 […]

Wed 13 November 2019: A river near the inter-Korean border has turned red after being polluted with blood from pig carcasses. South Korean authorities had culled 47,000 pigs in an attempt to halt the spread of African swine fever (ASF). Heavy rains caused blood to flow from a border burial site into a tributary of […]

Tue 12 November 2019: US President Donald Trump said Monday he plans to meet with vaping industry representatives as he considers whether to ban flavored e-cigarette products following a deadly epidemic of vaping-linked lung injuries. “Will be meeting with representatives of the Vaping industry, together with medical professionals and individual state representatives, to come up […]

E-cigs may damage the heart, study says Thu 07 November 2019: Vaping devices and the chemicals they deliver — increasingly popular among teens — may damage the cardiovascular system, a study said Thursday, adding to a growing chorus of concern over injury and deaths related to e-cigarettes. The latest findings, published in the journal Cardiovascular […]

How to counter the ‘obesity epidemic’ at home Mon 28 October 2019: The worldwide obesity epidemic has left millions facing serious physical and psychological illnesses and has raised questions about what we can do at home for ourselves and our families to fight the trend According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity has nearly […]

Mon 21 October 2019: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday he will never allow electronic cigarette companies to produce their products in Turkey, urging Turks to drink tea instead. Speaking at an event against smoking in Istanbul, Erdogan said he had ordered his Trade Minister “never” to allow e-cigarettes in Turkey and said that […]