After decades of work, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine last year - a historic milestone that promised to drive back a disease that kills a child every minute. I… [+9926 chars]
A research group led by scientists at the University of São Paulo (USP) in São Carlos, Brazil, has identified a number of bioactive compounds in a marine sponge collected on Fernando de Noronha, an a… [+4232 chars]
Twenty-one probable cases of children with hepatitis of unknown cause have been identified in Ireland since March and a small number of children are under investigation, the States infectious disease… [+2898 chars]
Thousands of breast cancer patients are to benefit from two new drugs which are to be made available through the NHS. Some 3,000 women a year will benefit from life-extending drug Alpelisib, the NHS… [+3844 chars]
New research published in Nutrients provides evidence that prunes are a prebiotic food that reverses bone loss in mice. The study investigators found that carbohydrates and polyphenols in prunes act … [+3618 chars]
Surgeons have successfully transplanted genetically-engineered pig hearts into two brain-dead people. Researchers believe that this marks a further step in the long-term goal of using pig parts to ad… [+2309 chars]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says people with mild COVID-19 symptoms shouldn't use two drugs. It says the antidepressant fluvoxamine and gout drug colchicine are not recommended for patients … [+1121 chars]
Children were more likely to be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder when a parent of the same sex, rather than one of the opposite sex, had the condition, a cross-sectional study from Canada found. T… [+4066 chars]
After decades of work, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine last year - a historic milestone that promised to drive back a disease that kills a child every minute. I… [+9926 chars]
In recent years the general population has become all too familiar with ins and outs of viral diseases, the Covid19 pandemic forced us to turn our attention to the importance of vaccination programme… [+7793 chars]
A health expert has warned that Covid can remain on frozen foods for up to a month. Professor Emily Bailey of Campbell University and her colleagues investigated how long Covid can last on frozen me… [+3714 chars]
Washington D.C. 13 July 2022 (PAHO) – As Omicron sub-lineages BA.4 and BA.5 drive a new wave of COVID-19 infections across the Americas, and cases of monkeypox continue to rise, the Pan American Heal… [+3272 chars]
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