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November 28, 2023
Japan on Tuesday began trial sales of over the counter \"morning after\" contraceptive pills, according to the country\'s pharmaceutical association, in a partial victory for campaigners.
November 28, 2023
English health officials are tracing the contacts of a person in North Yorkshire who seems to have caught a flu virus from pigs called influenza A(H1N2)v, the first time such a transmission has happened in the UK.
November 27, 2023
In a Nature Metabolism paper, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh detail a potential new target and a small-molecule drug candidate for treating Barth syndrome, a rare, life threatening and currently incurable genetic disease with devastating consequences.
November 25, 2023
Vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella and polio are in short supply in Switzerland.
November 24, 2023
China insists it has not detected any \"unusual or novel diseases\" despite hospitals being overwhelmed with children suffering from respiratory illnesses, officials said on Thursday.
November 24, 2023
Receiving at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine before the first infection is strongly associated with a reduced risk of developing post-COVID-19 condition, commonly known as long COVID, finds a study published by The BMJ.
November 23, 2023
Northern China has reported an increase in \"influenza-like illness\" since mid-October when compared to the same period in the previous three years, the WHO said.
November 23, 2023
Trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), a long-chain fatty acid found in meat and dairy products from grazing animals such as cows and sheep, improves the ability of CD8+ T cells to infiltrate tumors and kill cancer cells, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Chicago.
November 22, 2023
Researchers from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the University Hospital Bonn have demonstrated that certain derivatives of vitamin B2 can alleviate chronic kidney inflammation in mice.
November 21, 2023
A Duke Health analysis of breast cancer in North Carolina has shown that the state\'s urban counties had higher overall incidences of disease than rural counties, especially at early stages upon diagnosis.
November 19, 2023
Zimbabwe has declared a state of emergency in Harare over a cholera outbreak that has claimed dozens of lives across the country, the city\'s mayor said on Friday.
November 18, 2023
Takeda announced the European Commission has approved TAKHZYRO (lanadelumab) for the routine prevention of recurrent attacks of Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) in patients aged 2 years and older, expanding its initial approved use and making it the first long-term prophylactic treatment of HAE available in European Economic Area for patients under the age of 6.