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April 20, 2025 12:54 PM

Scientists create novel method to identify healthy and cancerous cells

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan on Saturday said they have found that the motion of unlabelled cells can be used to tell whether they are cancerous or healthy. They observed malignant fibrosarcoma cells and healthy fibroblasts on a dish and found that tracking and analysis o...

April 19, 2025 8:56 AM

White House launches COVID website that criticizes WHO, Fauci and Biden

Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's White House launched a COVID-19 website on Friday in which it blamed the origins of the coronavirus on a lab leak in China while criticizing Democratic former President Joe Biden, former top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization...

April 18, 2025 3:34 PM

Indian pharma giants target bigger share of $145 billion US cancer drug market

Indian pharmaceutical companies are ramping up efforts to expand their footprint in the lucrative US oncology generics market, currently valued at $145 billion and growing at a robust annual rate of 11 per cent, according to a new report. In recent months, several Indian drugmakers have secured app...

April 17, 2025 11:06 AM

Type 5 Diabetes Officially Recognized: A type impacting the malnourished

Last Week, at the 75th Diabetes World Congress in Bangkok, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) officially classified Type 5 diabetes as a distinct form of the disease affecting lean, undernourished young adults in low- and middle-income countries. "The recognition of type 5 diabetes marks a ...

April 16, 2025 4:02 PM

Karad sets benchmark in sanitary waste management with 100% safe disposal

Karad, a small city in Maharashtra’s Satara district, has achieved 100% segregation, collection, and processing of sanitary and biomedical waste, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs announced on Wednesday. According to the statement, the city collects an average of 300 to 350 kg of sanitary...

April 16, 2025 1:21 PM

WHO says member states reach agreement to tackle future pandemics

Members of the World Health Organization reached an agreement to prepare the world for future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations, the organisation said early on Wednesday. The legally binding pact is intended to shore up the world's defences against new pathogens after the COVID-...

April 15, 2025 8:51 PM

CT scan radiation risk comparable to alcohol and obesity: study

Repeated exposure to unnecessary CT (computed tomography) scans may increase cancer risk to a level comparable with alcohol consumption and obesity, a new study has found. The research, conducted by scientists at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), estimated that radiation from CT sc...

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