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Tumour Treating Fields (TTFields) approved for Pancreatic cancer

Cancer cells have electrically charged parts hence are influenced by electric fields. Application of alternating electric fields (TTFields) to solid tumours selectively target and...

Two Novel Henipaviruses Detected in Fruit bats in China 

The henipaviruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) are known to cause fatal diseases in humans. In 2022, Langya henipavirus (LayV), a novel henipavirus was identified in Eastern...

UK’s First Birth Following Living-donor Uterine Transplantation

The woman who had undergone the first living-donor uterus transplantation (LD UTx) in the UK earlier in 2023 for absolute uterine factor infertility (AUFI)...

Rezdiffra (resmetirom): FDA Approves First Treatment for Liver Scarring Due to Fatty Liver Disease 

Rezdiffra (resmetirom) has been approved by the FDA of the USA for the treatment of adults with noncirrhotic non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with moderate to...

A New ICD-11 Diagnostic Manual for Mental Disorders  

World Health Organization (WHO) has published a new, comprehensive diagnostic manual for mental, behavioural, and neurodevelopmental disorders. This will help qualified mental health and...

Psittacosis in Europe: An Unusual Increase in Cases of Chlamydophila psittaci 

In February 2024, five countries in the WHO European region (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands) reported an unusual increase in psittacosis cases...

Iloprost receives FDA approval for Treatment of Severe Frostbite

Iloprost, a synthetic prostacyclin analog used as vasodilator to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): a novel antibiotic Zosurabalpin (RG6006) shows promise in pre-clinical trials

Antibiotic resistance particularly by Gram-negative bacteria has nearly created a crisis like situation. The novel antibiotic Zosurabalpin (RG6006) shows promises. It has been found to...

Mindfulness meditation (MM) reduces Patient anxiety in Dental implant surgery 

Mindfulness meditation (MM) can be an effective sedative technique for dental implant operation conducted under local anaesthesia.  Dental implant surgery lasts for 1-2 hours. Patients...

Second malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M recommended by WHO

A new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M has been recommended by the WHO for the prevention of malaria in children.   Earlier in 2021, WHO had recommended RTS,S/AS01...

Nobel Prize in Medicine for COVID-19 vaccine  

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 has been awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside...

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