Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has carried out the world’s first fully robotic lung transplant using a minimally invasive technique that does not require cutting through bone. Surgeons announced on Monday that they utilized [Read More]
Junior doctors across England are staging a four-day walkout until Saturday morning, calling for a 35 percent pay increase amid Britain’s ongoing cost-of-living crisis. It is the second round of strike action aimed at achieving [Read More]
The Zimbabwean government has approved a 24-million-U.S. dollar budget to fight cholera, as 13 countries in Africa grapple with the epidemic that has killed hundreds of people since the beginning of the year. Many Zimbabweans [Read More]
Pakistan’s pharmaceutical goods rose 30.38 percent increase during the first eight months of the ongoing fiscal 2023 (FY23) as compared to the corresponding period last year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) says. The country [Read More]
Namibia has suspended of the import and in-transit movement of live/raw poultry, birds, and live/raw ostrich products from Argentina and Chile after outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Latin American countries. Refrigerated trucking [Read More]
With two more deaths recorded in the past week, the death toll of Lassa fever in Nigeria has risen to 144 since the beginning of the year, local health authorities said on Thursday. In its [Read More]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a message on Sunday, calling for increased efforts to advance the rights of individuals with autism, in honor of World Autism Awareness Day, which falls on April 2 annually. “Despite [Read More]
German vaccine maker BioNTech has said it expects sales of its COVID-19 vaccine to fall to around 5 billion euros (5.4 billion U.S. dollars) in 2023, the company said Monday. In 2022, BioNTech recorded sales [Read More]
German biotechnology company BioNTech SE will establish a center in Israel for the development and production of vaccines and drugs against cancer, the Israeli Finance Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The new center [Read More]
Introducing bacteria to a tumor microenvironment (TME) creates a state of acute inflammation that triggers the immune system’s primary responder cells to attack the tumor, according to a study led by Australia’s Garvan Institute of [Read More]
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