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Over 92,000 people in Lebanon fled the bombardments by Israel
The death toll in Lebanon due to the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has risen to 720, according to the country’s Health Minister Firas Abi Adwan. At least 25 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Friday, bringing the death toll in Lebanon this week to over 720, he added. Over 90,000 people have fled…
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Voters in swing state Nevada heard about the impacts of Hurricane Helene
Over 90,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Lebanon following Israel’s airstrikes on Hezbollah-controlled areas in the country, according to the United Nations. Over 10,000 civilians have been killed in Lebanon since the beginning of the conflict. Over 3,500 others have been injured, according to Lebanese health officials.
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Pain is seen as unimportant and ignored in women
Scientists have said that they are seeing more papers on the issue of women’s pain and how it affects male and female nociceptors. One study found that transitioning from male to female helped with the development of chronic pain during hormone therapy, while decreasing the impact on existing chronic pain conditions. Another found that healthy…
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The power of non-pharmaceutical interventions in pain
For up to half of people who opt for surgery once the pain in endometriosis is removed, the pain returns or persists so intensely that they need surgery again within five years, a study has found. The findings showed that the pain experienced by women with endometriosis is not indicative of the number of lesions…
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A pain-o-meter could improve treatments
Stanford University researcher Sean Mackey has said that the issue is not that we’re short of quality pain treatments. “The issue is not that we’re short of quality pain treatments. Preliminary findings suggest that advanced deep-learning AI could be transformative for accurate pain biomarker identification,” he added. Non-interpretable modelling presents a problem for pain-medicine practitioners,…
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Gaza health officials say that 22 people were killed in the Israeli strike on the former school
Israel on Saturday said that it struck a school-turned-shelter in Gaza because it believed Hamas militants were using the building as a command centre. The strike killed 22 people, mostly women and children, who had sought shelter at the school, Palestinian health authorities said. The health ministry in Gaza said that the majority of the…
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Why is she in pain now that her disease has been cured?
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two gene therapy treatments for sickle-cell disease last year, including the first CRISPR-based genome-editing therapy the agency has ever authorized. Both stem-cell transplants and gene therapy require chemotherapy before the treatment. Three rounds of chemotherapy and other treatments drove her cancer into remission, but she still struggles with…
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Is Obesity a Disease? It isComplicated in the Age of Ozempic
James Chen, a scientist from UT Southwestern Medical Center, US, has been awarded the Lasker Award for Medical Science for his work on obesity drugs. He was recognised for discovering how DNA triggered immune and inflammatory responses. In 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration had approved the first long-lasting GLP-1-based drugs, for type 2…
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Your phone won’t become the next Exploding Pager
At least 25 people were killed and over 300 others were injured in a series of explosions that targeted Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, the country’s Health Ministry said. Israel has claimed that it carried out the attacks, claiming that Hezbollah was behind the bombings. The attacks appeared to be part of an…
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Is Obesity a disease in the age of Ozempic?
A recent study found that weight-loss drugs, like GLP-1, can reduce obesity in children aged 6–11 years. It showed 43% of those who took liraglutide showed a reduction in body fat, compared to 19% who took a placebo. However, the study didn’t include long-term data on the effects of GLP-1 mimics on growth and puberty…
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Drug- resistant infections will cause 40 million deaths by 2050
The number of deaths caused by Carbapenem- resistant Gram-negative bacteria have increased by 149.51% in the last 20 years. There have been reductions in the number of children dying from drug-resistant infections over the past 3 decades, but the rate of deaths for people over 70 has gone up. Carbapenem drugs are a class of…
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Hezbollah reels from pager explosions in another wave of blasts
The number of people injured in the Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon has risen to over 3,000, the Lebanese health ministry said on Wednesday. At least 13 people were killed in the blasts, it added. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that “excellent achievements” were made by Israeli military and intelligence branch, but…
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Some women enter menopause early and that could affect their cancer risk
Researchers have found that the average age of a woman with certain variations of a gene is nine years younger than the average age of a woman with the same gene. The study analysed the genetic sequence of 8000 genetic trios of a mother, father and child. The average age of women with certain variations…
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Palestinians say that dozens of people have been killed from an Israeli strike
At least five people were killed in an airstrike by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The strike took place in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. This comes after the Israeli military said it carried out an air strike on southern Gaza that killed 19…
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Farmers worry about long-term care costs
Farmers across the US are worried about the costs of long-term care, which is expected to rise as people get older, a media report said. According to US Department of Health and Human Services, a third of Americans 65 years and older will need a year of nursing home care in their lifetime. This means…
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There is a mobile clinic near the DNC
Planned Parenthood in the US said that it is providing abortion for rape survivors in Illinois and in the US during the Democratic Convention. “It’s a great opportunity for us to show how when you have a state like Illinois that prioritises healthcare access, you can be creative and innovative in how you meet people’s…
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Your nose has its own army of immune cells
A study found that the formation of germinal centres in the upper airway acts as training camps for the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Several participants contracted COVID-19 during the study, and researchers found that these participants’ noses hosted B cells that specialise in targeting SARS-CoV-2. They also inadvertently found evidence of these germinal centres’…
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What is CrowdStrike?
CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, said it was the victim of a “sophisticated” ransomware attack that targeted multiple hospitals in the US on Wednesday. All computers running the updated version of its Falcon antivirus software crashed after it contained a bug. One of America’s biggest healthcare systems, Massachusetts General Brigham, cancelled all non-urgent surgeries, procedures, and…
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The woolly mammoth has been extinct for a long time, and a 3D reconstruction of the genome might revive it
Researchers said they have found DNA from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, one of the oldest known living mammals, which they believe is the earliest evidence of human DNA. The DNA was preserved in skin samples taken from Siberian permafrost. “To be able to do all these specific things in… woolly mammoth is exciting,” said Erez…
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Scientists change genes of gut bacteria in mice
Researchers have developed a tool which could edit genes in the guts of live mice. The tool was able to edit over 70% of an E coli strain colonising mice guts. The next step for the researchers is to develop mouse models with microbiome-driven diseases to measure whether specific gene edits have a beneficial impact…
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Frailty explains what is happening to President Biden
Former US President George HW Bush, who died of cancer in 1992, said, “I believe that Joe Biden is eminently qualified to be president of the US.” This comes after Biden was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour in August last year. It took Biden several years to recover from the tumour.
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A new rule could protect millions of workers from heat-related illnesses
The US Department of Occupational Health and Safety ( OSHA) has proposed new regulations to protect workers from heat stroke and exposure to just doing their jobs. The department said the rules would provide protection for millions of workers who are more likely to work in roles that could expose them to extreme heat. Heat…
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of federal regulators
The US Supreme Court has stayed a lower court’s decision stopping the Environmental Protection Agency’s Good Neighbor Plan. The Good Neighbor Plan requires 23 upwind states to curb smog-forming pollutants before it drifts to them. It applies to nitrogen oxides, a key ingredient for smog, and replaces state plans that the EPA found to fall…
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Children are allowed to leave Gaza for the first time since May
Palestinian medical supplies have been banned in the new Gaza crossing with Israel, a Gazan medical worker said. The 19-person volunteer mission sponsored by the Palestinian American Medical Association brought in 300 suitcases, filled with medical supplies, but all of them were carefully screened by Israel, Townson Cocke, the medical advocacy leader for the Alliance,…