Can gummy sweets improve your health? From better sleep to boosting your joints and heart, our experts chew over the new vitamins with ‘benefits’ Gummy supplements are a popular way to dose up on health-boosting ingredients — and they’re not just for children, with some promising to help adults with everything from troublesome sleep to weight loss. There is no […]
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Global food giant Nestle said Monday it was developing a new nutrition strategy after the Financial Times reported on an internal document showing that most of its food and drinks were unhealthy. An internal presentation circulated among top executives earlier this year had revealed that more than 60 percent of Nestle’s mainstream food and drinks portfolio did not meet “recognised […]
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GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Monday for launching negotiations this year on an international treaty to boost pandemic preparedness, as part of sweeping reforms envisioned by member states.FILE PHOTO: World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 […]
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Fully vaccinated residents in the EU should be exempt from COVID-19 quarantine when travelling within the bloc, the European Commission urged on Monday in a sign of increased confidence in its jabs rollout. The EU executive’s update to its non-binding travel recommendations was unveiled a week before EU legislation on a Digital EU COVID Certificate is expected to be passed […]
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As you head into the great outdoors this summer, keep safety in mind, an expert says. Drowning is one of summer’s risks. It only takes a few seconds and can happen without an obvious struggle, according to Dr. Seth Hawkins, a wilderness medicine expert and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, N.C. Adults must […]
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Thailand was redoubling efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus in labor camps, factories and markets as the number of new reported cases surged Monday to the highest level so far. A government spokesman said public health officials were meeting with labor and industry officials to discuss better ways to curb infections that are clustered in crowded, high-risk places. The […]
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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s new COVID-19 infections have decreased and the outbreak can be controlled, the health minister said on Monday, as he urged the public to follow restrictions, which will stay in place in the coming weeks.FILE PHOTO: Soldiers wear protective suits as they disinfect a street following the recent surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections, in Tucheng district of […]
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Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge found that in children with neuroblastoma – a cancer of immature nerve cells – treatment with platinum chemotherapy caused changes to the genome that could then cause leukaemia in some children later on. The findings, published 27th May 2021 in Blood could lead to an ability to identify which […]
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FILE PHOTO: Teachers and school staff queue to receive a dose of China’s CanSino coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine during a mass vaccination against COVID-19 outside a military base in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 25, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis GonzalezMEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico recorded 1,307 coronavirus cases and 52 more deaths on Sunday, according to health ministry data, bringing the overall […]
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