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Languishing with fever and frustrated by delays in diagnosing his illness, Brian Gitta came up with a bright idea: a malaria test that would not need blood samples or specialized laboratory technicians. That inspiration has won the 25-year-old Ugandan computer scientist a prestigious engineering prize ...
Kansai entities team up on U.N. development goals as Japan angles for World Expo
When the Group of 20 summit takes place in Osaka a year from now, the bulk of media reporting and commentary will no doubt emphasize what the presidents and prime ministers say about the international financial or geopolitical crisis of the moment, and what ...
North Korea data show slight children's health gains but third of drinking water contaminated: U.N.
New data from North Korea show a "slight" improvement in children's health, the United Nations reported Wednesday, saying the isolated nation had made a step forward by providing better information about the condition of its people. The findings published by UNICEF were based on surveys ...
California officials bucked a recent court ruling Friday and offered reassurance to concerned coffee drinkers that their fix won't give them cancer. The unprecedented action by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to propose a regulation to essentially clear coffee of the stigma that ...
Everyone makes mistakes, but when scientists do, the remedy goes far beyond saying you're sorry. Two fresh examples show how some journals and universities react when the need arises to set the record straight. On Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted and republished ...
Kirin Holdings wants its aging customers to eat more healthily
Seeking growth beyond a shrinking beer market, Kirin Holdings Co. is turning its attention to making people healthier. The second-largest beer-maker in the country aims to reach ¥100 billion in sales of food and beverages aimed at appealing to wellness concerns in the next two ...
U.S. blocks U.N. health panel from backing taxes on sugary drinks
The Trump administration has torpedoed a plan to recommend higher taxes on sugary drinks, forcing a World Health Organization panel to back off the U.N. agency's previous call for such taxes as a way to fight obesity, diabetes and other life-threatening conditions. The move disappointed ...
Osaka study suggests comedy may boost cancer patients' immune systems
Laughter may be effective in improving cancer patients' immune functions, according to a study by a team of researchers from the Osaka International Cancer Institute. The study was conducted with the cooperation of Osaka-based entertainment agencies Shochiku Geino, Beicho Co. and Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. Comedians from ...
Study finds many women with early-stage breast cancer can skip chemotherapy
Some 70 percent of women with early-stage breast cancer and an intermediate risk of cancer recurrence can safely skip chemotherapy after their tumors have been removed, U.S. researchers said Sunday. "This is a major finding," said Dr. Larry Norton, a breast cancer expert at Memorial ...
A Danish group says petition seeking to set a minimum age of 18 for non-medical male circumcision in the country has gathered the required 50,000 signatures to send the proposal to Parliament for debate later this year. Lena Nyhus of the group Intact Denmark told ...
China is now expected to offer newborns a longer period of health during their lifetime than the United States, overtaking the U.S. for the first time, data from the World Health Organization shows. Chinese newborns can look forward to 68.7 years of healthy life ahead ...
Have you ever been on a diet and wished that spinach excited your taste buds? Or that chocolate left you cold? Neuroscientists said Wednesday they have discovered how to manipulate the brain to make sweet things off-putting, and bitter ones nice. But only in mice, for ...
