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2024 Nobel prizes announced this week
STOCKHOLM - The Nobel prizes are to be announced this week, starting with the award for medicine or physiology on Monday. The awards,...
Oct 11, 20242 min read
Indonesia court finds drugmakers at fault over toxic cough syrup, awards parents
JAKARTA - An Indonesian court ordered two local companies to pay up to 60 million rupiah ($3,850) to each family whose children died of...
Aug 23, 20242 min read
Explainer-Why is mpox an emergency again, and how worried should I be?
LONDON - The World Health Organization has declared that an outbreak of mpox, a viral infection that spreads through close contact,...
Aug 17, 20243 min read
Why mental stress can take a toll on the heart
Researchers have found that mental stress can significantly impact the heart, particularly among people with heart disease. When faced...
Jul 9, 20241 min read
For healthy adults, taking multivitamins daily is not associated with a lower risk of death
A new study involving nearly 400,000 healthy adults in the U.S. over 20 years suggests that taking #multivitamins daily does not lower...
Jul 9, 20241 min read
Global perspectives on childhood myopia: addressing the rising epidemic
At the annual meeting of the Association for #Research in Vision and #Ophthalmology (ARVO) in #Seattle, scientists convened to tackle the...
Jul 9, 20241 min read
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