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November 27, 2018
Yemen\'s health authorities launched a national polio immunization campaign targeting over 5 million children across the war-torn country.
November 27, 2018
Brazil\'s Health Ministry on Monday signed a deal to significantly reduce the sugar levels of industrialized food products.
November 26, 2018
Born this month in China, the twin girls Lulu and Nana are said to carry genes that were altered for HIV-immunity with an \"editing\" tool when they were still single-cell embryos not yet inside their mother\'s womb.
November 26, 2018
A team of Clemson University researchers wants to protect humans and other mammals from the debilitating and even deadly effects of African sleeping sickness.
November 21, 2018
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo cautioned New Yorkers to follow the food safety alert from the Centers for Disease Control to not eat any romaine lettuce due to an E. coli outbreak across the country.
November 21, 2018
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted warning letters issued to two companies for the illegal marketing of products labeled as dietary supplements that contain tianeptine, a chemical compound that companies are illegally claiming treats opioid use disorder (OUD), pain and anxiety, and other unlawful and unproven claims.
November 20, 2018
To get the reduction in malaria deaths and disease back on track, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners are joining a new country-led response to scale up prevention and treatment, and increased investment, to protect vulnerable people from the deadly disease.
November 19, 2018
Cancer scientists led by principal investigator Dr. Daniel De Carvalho at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have combined \"liquid biopsy,\" epigenetic alterations and machine learning to develop a blood test to detect and classify cancer at its earliest stages.
November 16, 2018
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new findings from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) showing that more than 3.6 million middle and high school students were current (past 30 day) e-cigarette users in 2018, a dramatic increase of more than 1.5 million students since last year.
November 15, 2018
The Socialist (PSOE) government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has put forward a plan to fight the rise of pseudo-therapies such as homeopathy, which promise to have a positive health impact but have no scientific evidence to support their claims.
November 15, 2018
The French government has released €40 million to help fund research into new antibiotics, as antibiotic resistance in France rises up the medical agenda.
November 14, 2018
Scientists at The Wistar Institute and collaborators have successfully engineered novel DNA-encoded monoclonal antibodies (DMAbs) targeting Zaire Ebolavirus that were effective in preclinical models.