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Life & Style
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Health
7/26/2024 5:56:17 PM
Europe's medicines watchdog on Friday rejected a marketing request for a new Alzheimer's disease treatment, saying the risks of the medicine's side effects, including potential brain bleeding, outweighed the benefits.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/25/2024 5:40:53 PM
Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday.
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Paris 2024
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News
7/23/2024 8:38:44 PM
World Aquatics has carried out its most rigorous drug testing programme ever in the lead-up to the Paris Olympics, with Chinese swimmers targeted.
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World
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Region
7/22/2024 3:56:23 PM
Iraqi authorities seized record quantities of the potent stimulant captagon last year, at an estimated value of up to $144 million, with the country increasingly a critical drug conduit, a UN report said Monday.
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Business
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Economy
7/15/2024 11:10:11 AM
"Doctor, please write down an alternative medication for each type on the prescription" is a common plea among patients in Egypt now due to the severe shortage of medicines in the local market, intensifying daily and impacting both healthy and ill individuals.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/10/2024 12:37:05 PM
Athletes at the Paris Olympics later this month will be tested for performance-enhancing drugs, but at a competition plotting to rival the Games, doping will be the point.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/4/2024 11:20:48 AM
Another Alzheimer’s drug that can modestly slow the disease was approved, providing a new option for patients in the early stages of the incurable, memory-destroying ailment.
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Egypt
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Health
7/1/2024 11:12:51 PM
The Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) has issued new regulations for pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, and drug warehouses restricting the dispensing of 11 antibiotics without a stamped prescription, according to local reports.
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Life & Style
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Health
6/27/2024 11:39:19 AM
The UN drugs agency on Wednesday sounded the alarm on a group of potent synthetic opioids, as it warned that the drop in Afghanistan's opium production may boost synthetic drug use.
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Life & Style
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Health
6/25/2024 1:23:44 PM
First developed in the 1960s as an anaesthetic, ketamine's hallucinogenic and dissociative effects led to it becoming a party drug dubbed "Special K".
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Life & Style
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Health
6/23/2024 11:18:54 AM
A popular obesity drug may help treat a dangerous disorder in which people struggle to breathe while they sleep, a new study finds.
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Life & Style
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Health
6/23/2024 11:07:13 AM
The Food and Drug Administration authorized the first menthol-flavored electronic cigarettes for adult smokers, acknowledging that vaping flavors can reduce the harms of traditional tobacco smoking.
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World
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International
6/12/2024 11:18:25 AM
Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
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World
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International
6/10/2024 2:01:56 PM
The criminal trial of President Joe Biden's son heads into its final stretch Monday as the defense tries to chip away at prosecutors' case laying bare some of the darkest moments of Hunter Biden's drug-fueled past.
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World
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International
6/8/2024 9:50:18 PM
A landslide election win will embolden Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first woman president, to defend her country's interests in sometimes-tense relations with the United States dominated by trade, migration and drugs, experts say.
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World
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International
6/8/2024 6:06:03 PM
Pictures of President Joe Biden's son with drug paraphernalia and bare-chested in a bubble bath.
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Egypt
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Health
6/6/2024 8:46:48 PM
During the first five months of 2024, from January to May 2024, 66,147 patients (new and follow-up cases) sought addiction treatment and counselling services via the hotline of Egypt’s National Fund for Drug Control and Treatment of Addiction “16023.”
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Egypt
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Health
6/3/2024 11:29:34 AM
Egyptian medical city GYPTO Pharma signed a strategic partnership contract with the US pharmaceutical giant Abbott to manufacture six types of palliative and antibiotic medications, with a production capacity of 155 million packages over five years.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/2/2024 1:49:24 PM
The EU's drug watchdog urged that anti-Covid jabs be updated before another round of vaccinations to counter a new variant of the virus, which is still claiming thousands of lives.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/29/2024 11:58:06 AM
Studies showed that it can delay the progression of the disease by a few months when given to people with mild symptoms. Some experts say the delay may be too subtle for patients to notice.
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