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October 7, 2024 11:16 PM

JP Nadda announces enhanced nutrition support for TB patients

In a move to bolster nutritional support for tuberculosis (TB) patients, Union Health Minister J P Nadda has announced key initiatives under the Ni-Kshay Poshan Yojana. Effective immediately, the monthly support for TB patients has been doubled from ...

October 7, 2024 3:30 PM

JP Nadda elected chair of WHO South-East Asia Regional Committee

Union Health Minister JP Nadda was elected as the Chairperson of the 77th session of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Regional Committee for Southeast Asia on Monday. The committee, the annual governing body of WHO in the region, plays a cruci...

October 7, 2024 4:29 PM

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win 2024 Nobel medicine prize

U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live, the award-giving body said on Monday. The Nobel assembly said in a st...

October 6, 2024 12:04 PM

Researchers shed more light on breast cancer treatment

Researchers at LMU have successfully tested a novel medication that can significantly prolong the lives of patients with breast cancer. Brain metastases are frequently observed in patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer, and those who expe...

October 5, 2024 2:37 PM

Deaths linked to hurricanes still occur years after storm hits

Hurricanes and tropical storms in the United States cause a surge of deaths for nearly 15 years after the initial weather event strikes, new research suggests. Governments only record the number of people killed during these tropical cyclones, usual...

October 4, 2024 4:52 PM

UK to consider bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill

British lawmakers will soon consider whether to give terminally ill adults a choice to end their own lives with medical assistance, after what proponents sayis a shift in public opinion since a similar measure was rejected a decade ago. Kim Leadbeat...

October 4, 2024 11:10 AM

What is Marburg virus, and how worrying is it?

Rwanda is battling its first-ever outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, with 36 cases reported so far and 11 deaths. The World Health Organization said this week the risk of the outbreak is very high in Rwanda, high across the African region, and lo...

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