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Pfizer Foundation provides $15m to improve breast cancer care in sub-Saharan Africa 2025-01-20
Ghana Business News

The Pfizer Foundation has provided $15 million investment to a three-year initiative to improve the lives of women with breast cancer in Rwanda, Ghana, and Tanzania. The Grant funding will be provided to global health nonprofit organisations, Jhpiego and Partners in Health, to support and scale...

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Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead 2025-01-19
CNN

The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication. But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison. The population here...

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US accuses Walgreens of filling millions of illegitimate prescriptions, including for opioids 2025-01-18
Times Union

DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is accusing Walgreens of filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade and more without a legitimate purpose, including for dangerous amounts of opioids, according to a lawsuit filed this week. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the...

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A golden age of cancer treatment? – podcast 2025-01-17
The Guardian

The Guardian’s health editor Andrew Gregory explores the promises and challenges of revolutionary technology in the fight against cancer...

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Green Tea May Protect Brain Health for Seniors, New Study Says 2025-01-16
Greek Reporter

If a senior has three or more drinks of green tea per day, it may help prevent cognitive decline and related illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease. A study done by the Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Japan’s Kanazawa University finds green tea may be a powerful tool for promoting brain health...

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People’s Pharmacy: Could antiviral Valtrex help post-COVID-19 brain fog? 2025-01-16
The Spokesman-Review

Q. I had the flu in March 2020 and then came down with another infection. I think it was COVID-19, but there were no home tests at the time. Even though my case was no worse than the flu, it left me with brain fog. I couldn’t concentrate well enough to pay a few bills and organize a simple budget....

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Getting rich without getting fat: The challenge of developing countries 2025-01-15
The Jakarta Post

T he global effort to eradicate hunger by 2030 is facing a gradual challenge. After world hunger decreased from around 19 percent to 11 percent of the worldwide population in 2014,...

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How much life expectancy are you prepared to lose eating your favourite foods? 2025-01-15
South China Morning Post

A study on minutes of healthy life gained or lost from eating foods including pizza and bacon makes one ponder what is worth the sacrifice. ......

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Mexican cattle banned from Texas due to screwworm threat 2025-01-13
Odessa American

By Pooja Salhotra, The Texas Tribune A single cow in Mexico and a pest the size of a housefly have held up pens full of Texas-bound cattle worth millions of dollars for the past six weeks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has banned Mexican cattle imports since November after a parasite known as...

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224 cholera cases recorded in Angola with 18 deaths 2025-01-13
International Business Times

Angola has registered 224 cholera cases, the Ministry of Health reported. In the past 24 hours, three cholera deaths and 54 new cases have been reported, with most of the cases recorded in the capital province of Luanda. National emergency response measures have been activated as the cholera...

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