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Neurological Disorders Are Leading Cause Of Disability-adjusted Life Years: WHO

A 2020 Lancet paper cites them as the second leading cause of death globally, accounting for 9 million deaths a year

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EU Regulator Declines To Support Mirati's Lung Cancer Drug

The drug, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December and sold under brand Krazati, is designed to target a mutated form of a gene known as KRAS that occurs in about 13 per cent of non-small cell lung cancers, the most common form of the disease, and less frequently in some other solid tumors.

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WHO Alarm On Dengue Risk For Global Warming Impact

The disease was found in Sudan's capital Khartoum for the first time on record, according to a health ministry report in March, while Europe has reported a surge in cases and Peru declared a state of emergency in most regions. In Januray, WHO warned that dengue is the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease and represents a "pandemic threat".

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HIV Drug Resistance Mechanisms Revealed By Protein Structures: Study

The new study, published in Science Advances, reveals how changes to the 3D structures of integrase, an HIV protein, can lead to Dolutegravir resistance and how other compounds may be able to overcome this resistance.

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Private Equity Investments In Healthcare Raises Costs: Study

Private equity funding can come from multiple types of institutions, with different firms implementing varying investment strategies. As a result, Bruch said, the team wanted to review broad trends to gauge the impact on the healthcare sector as a whole rather than limiting the analysis to a specific setting.

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India's Cybersecurity Skill Shortage & AI Posed Risks In Healthcare

Enterprises in the country experienced over 2000 attacks every week in Q1 2023, marking an 18 per cent increase compared to the previous year. The healthcare industry was a prime target, with 7.7 per cent of attacks directed towards it

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Reprogramming Shape Of Virus Capsids May Advance Biomedicine: Research

Although DNA origami structures are a promising material for interfacing biological systems, they suffer from instability, especially in the presence of DNA-degrading enzymes.

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Hairdressers, Beauticians, Accountants May Be At Higher Risk Of Ovarian Cancer: Research

And those that have, have often failed to account for potentially influential factors, previous employment history, or have included relatively few participants, so limiting the findings.

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Need For Vision Document To Provide Best Healthcare In Country: Mandaviya

On the last day of this two-day event, sessions were held on various facets of healthcare in India, ranging from the status of medical education, to the National Tuberculosis Elimination Mission, the District Residency Programme, and Ayushman Bhav.

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Faecal Transplants Show Potential To Improve Melanoma Treatment: Study

Immunotherapy drugs stimulate a person's immune system to attack and destroy cancer. While they can significantly improve survival outcomes in those with melanoma, they are only effective in 40 to 50 per cent of patients.

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India Asks Small Drugmakers For Higher Manufacturing Standards

India is demanding higher standards from small and medium-sized drugmakers, the health minister said on Tuesday, in a bid to improve product quality after Indian-made cough syrups were linked to deaths of children overseas. India's image as the "pharmacy of the world", offering cheaper alternatives to Western products, took a hit following the deaths of at least 89 children in Gambia and Uzbekistan last year after consuming cough syrups made in India.

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Work With Govt To Mitigate Chemical Fertilisers' Impact On Soil: Mandaviya To Stakeholders

It is our responsibility to increase agricultural production, but at the same time we need to strengthen agricultural systems in a way that we do not compromise the fertility of soil, as well as the health of our citizens, he says

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Healthcare's Rising Carbon Footprint

According to a 2019 report by Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), the global healthcare sector’s climate footprint is equivalent to 4.4 per cent of global net emissions, contributing around 2 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide into the environment

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New Mechanism To Understand Mutations On Enzyme Substrates: Research

Enzyme mutations have piqued the curiosity of cancer researchers. Scientists in the Liu and Tan laboratories at UNC's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Centre have been examining mutations of enzyme recognition patterns in substrates, which may more faithfully represent enzyme activity and may lead to the discovery of novel targets or therapeutic approaches for cancer.

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USFDA Declines To Approve Amneal Pharma's Parkinson Drug

The FDA in a complete response letter said while the company established the safety of one ingredient, levodopa, based on some studies, it was not able to adequately establish safety for the other ingredient, carbidopa.

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