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Nobel winner Tasuku Honjo sees bigger role for immunotherapy in battling cancer
Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo, who jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his research on the immune system that contributed to cancer treatments, said Thursday that he believes most cancers will become treatable with immune therapy by 2050. The 76-year-old professor ...
India's toxic air claimed 1.24 million lives in 2017 — 12.5 percent of total deaths recorded that year — according to a study published in Lancet Planetary Health on Thursday. More than 51 percent of the people who died because of air pollution were younger ...
A health ministry panel has given a conditional green light to the commercialization of a regenerative medicine to treat those with spinal cord injuries. Given the decision Tuesday, the health minister is expected to allow the production and sale of the preparation made from human ...
India's first elephant hospital cheers animal activists, draws tourists
At India's first hospital for elephants, opened last week in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, 49-year-old Asha placed her left foreleg on a stool for a doctor to attend to an injury while visitors filmed it all on their mobile phones. The facility, armed ...
A diet low in carbohydrates could help obese people maintain their weight loss by increasing the number of calories their bodies are able to burn, experts said Wednesday. Presenting their findings at the international Obesity Week conference in Nashville, Tennessee, doctors said a low-carb diet ...
You probably had plastic for breakfast
Welcome to a global experiment about the effects of eating and drinking microplastic.
Woman arrested over Australian needles-in-strawberries spiking case
Following a crisis that sparked panic across Australia recently, a woman has been arrested after a "complex" investigation into an incident in which needles were found stuck into strawberries, police said Sunday. Queensland state authorities offered a large reward and the national government raised jail ...
A blond Swedish landscape artist flexes for NHK — remember his name ... Tatsumasa Murasame
Who's that hunk of blond beefcake crunching his abs on NHK's workout program "Minna de Kinniku Taiso"? When the five-minute nightly exercise show launched for a four-episode run this August and attracted a huge cult following, social media users wanted to know the answer. Tatsumasa Murasame ...
Medical associations in Japan warn heat could make 2020 Olympic marathon 'deadly'
Medical associations in Japan urged Olympic organizers Wednesday to start the 2020 Tokyo marathon as early as 5:30 a.m., saying failure to do so could "lead to deaths" from heatstroke. The warning is the latest in a chorus of concern about how extreme heat could ...
Cause eludes as 11 more cases come to light of babies born with deformed arms in France
Eleven more cases of babies born with missing or malformed arms in France have come to light, the public health authority said Tuesday, adding to a medical phenomenon for which no cause has been found. The 11 additional cases were identified through hospital records in ...
India's Zika outbreak is spreading, with officials saying Sunday that the mosquito-borne virus has been detected in the western state of Gujarat after nearly 150 cases were reported this year in neighboring Rajasthan. Health authorities in Gujarat said a woman tested positive for Zika and ...
Air quality in Delhi area plummets as peak pollution season arrives
India's capital was covered in a blanket of choking gray air and pollution Saturday, with government data showing air quality slumping to "severe" or "very poor" levels in almost all parts of Delhi. Authorities have already advised residents to keep outdoor activity to a minimum ...
