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Over half of medical prescriptions in Peshawar are illegible

PESHAWAR: Studies has revealed that 58.5 percent of medical prescriptions by doctors in Peshawar are illegible, difficult to read, and full of errors.  A research...

Soccer is basically medicine, some researchers argue

LONDON: Compared to inactive people, recreational soccer players have lower cholesterol, blood pressure and resting heart rates as well as less fat mass, a...

Twice-weekly workouts may be best medicine for cognitive decline

NEW YORK: There’s little evidence that medications improve mild cognitive decline associated with aging, according to a new review of research, but doctors can...

Researchers discover method of targeting cancer without destroying healthy cells

A unique approach to targeting the abnormal T-cells that cause T-cell lymphomas could offer hope to patients with the aggressive and difficult-to-treat family of...

Scientists develop glue which seals wounds in 60 seconds without the need for common staples or stitches

Biomedical engineers from the University of Sydney and the United States collaborated to develop a highly elastic and adhesive surgical glue that quickly seals...

Meet the Robot Who Prescribes and Dispenses Medicine

Dubai recently inaugurated a smart pharmacy with a robot for dispensing and prescribing medicines in Dubai Hospital. This is the first-of-its-kind smart pharmacy in the...

Artificial leaf copies nature to manufacture medicine

AMSTERDAM: Dutch scientists have developed an artificial leaf that can act as a mini-factory for producing drugs, an advance that could allow medicines to...

Alfred Nobel used dynamite fortune to create prizes

STOCKHOLM: Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel, who made a vast fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, ordered the creation of the...

One new drug for three deadly tropical diseases

PARIS: Scientists unveiled findings Monday that could lead to a single treatment for a trio of deadly maladies found mostly in the world's poorest countries.

GSK and Google parent forge $715 million bioelectronic medicines firm

LONDON: GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet's life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics.

Mexico debates legalizing opium poppy for medicine

MEXICO CITY: Fed up with drug-related violence, a growing number of Mexican politicians see one potential cure: legalizing the cultivation of opium poppies for the production of medicine.

Turkish prosecutor opens investigation into Novartis: media

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor has launched an investigation into the Turkish unit of Swiss drugmaker Novartis, local media reported on Friday, after allegations it benefited from bribery.

At least eight children die in Thar due to gastroentritis, malnutrition

THAR: At least eight children have lost their lives due to outbreak of gastroenteritis and malnutrition in different areas of drought-stricken district Thar, ARY News reported.

Pharma bad-boy Shkreli quits Turing after fraud charges

NEW YORK: Reviled US pharmaceutical and hedge fund figure Martin Shkreli resigned as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals on Friday, a day after his arrest on fraud charges, the company said Friday.

CEO — who hiked price of life saving medicine — arrested over fraud

NEW YORK: Martin Shkreli, the boyish pharmaceutical entrepreneur who caused a public uproar after he drastically raised the price of a life-saving prescription drug, was arrested for engaging in what U.S. prosecutors said was a Ponzi-like scheme at his former hedge fund and a pharmaceutical company he previously headed.

WWF-trained fisherman release mobula ray in waters off Pasni

KARACHI: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) trained fishermen released a five five feet long spinetail mobula ray which became entangled in their tuna gillnet laid down near Balochistan's city of Pasni, ARY News reports.

Meningitis epidemic kills 45 in Niger

NIAMEY: A meningitis epidemic that broke out in January in Niger has so far killed 45 people, the health minister told AFP on Saturday.

Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s internal GPS

STOCKHOLM: Anglo-American John O'Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for discovering the brain's internal positioning system, helping humans find their way and giving clues to how strokes and Alzheimer's affect the brain.
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