The World Health Organization on Friday raised its global risk assessment of the new coronavirus to its highest level after the epidemic spread to sub-Saharan Africa and financial markets slumped.
Feb 28, 2020
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Vast white greenhouses sit high up on the slopes of Lesotho's Marakabei town, hidden from view.
Sep 4, 2019
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Americans are feeding the multi-billion-dollar "brain health" dietary supplement industry in a desperate bid to stave off or reverse Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. But such treatments are "pseudomedicine" and health ...
Jan 28, 2019
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The last year was a 12-month champagne toast for the legal marijuana industry as the global market exploded and cannabis pushed its way further into the financial and cultural mainstream.
Dec 27, 2018
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Demand for cosmetic surgery is showing no sign of abating, with a boom in Asia as the procedures become more affordable and less of a taboo, experts said.
Jan 27, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Smoking kills about 6 million people a year, and costs the world more than $1 trillion a year in health care expenses and lost productivity, a new report says.
Jan 10, 2017
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A U.N. expert says junk food is a human rights concern.
Oct 25, 2016
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Time and again, major pharmaceutical companies attract negative press, with magazines like Forbes calling the industry "pill pushers" and detailing how they 'abandoned science for salesmanship.'
Oct 20, 2015
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India's new government has launched a drive to promote the country's ancient therapies as it seeks to cash in on the multi-billion dollar global market for holistic medicine.
Nov 16, 2014
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The World Health Organization took aim Tuesday at e-cigarettes, the increasingly popular, ostensibly safer tobacco substitute which WHO nevertheless says poses a serious threat to young people.
Aug 26, 2014
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