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A multi-institutional team led by IIT Kanpur has found the mechanism responsible for the aggressive return of prostate cancer in treated patients. They also found that treating prostate cancer cells…
The e-cigarettes makers have been following the time-tested machinations of the big tobacco companies to a tee. Using flavours is just one of the many strategies that e-cigarette makers have…
It is an irony that a country that introduced text health warnings in 1966 and updated it in 1984 to include the Surgeon General’s warning, cigarettes packages in the U.S…
Lower nicotine content in cigarettes is an idea whose time has come. On July 28, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration struck panic among tobacco companies by announcing a…
Resistance by scientists and show of support for science by the public is reaching a new peak ever since the Trump administration first stopped the U.S. National Park from using…
The first Phase-1 human clinical trial of a vaccine for Zika virus is set to begin in the coming weeks, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) green-lighting it. The…
The All India Bread Manufacturers’ Association on Thursday (May 26) said it had decided to voluntarily stop using potassium bromate and potassium iodate as additives in bread from May 27.…
In the last 30 years, the number of obese people in the world has been steadily increasing. According to the World Health Organisation, in 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults,…
