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În România, procentul copiilor supraponderali cu vârste cuprinse între 5 şi 19 ani s-a dublat, de la 10% în 2000 la 23% în 2022, informează Agerpres.

A recent study by researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, published in Nature Communications, reveals a disturbing conclusion: the virus that causes COVID-19 can infect the brain and persist there for up to 80 days after the acute phase,...

A new scientific study brings hope to families affected by unexplained paralysis in children after seemingly minor respiratory infections. Researchers at the University of Manchester have identified a rare genetic mutation, associated with severe...

An international team of researchers from Australia and the United States has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that promises to fundamentally transform cancer treatment, through a detailed and personalized understanding of the...

A groundbreaking new study by British researchers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and Imperial College London brings to the fore a fascinating hypothesis: dinosaur fossils could contribute to the understanding of cancer and the development of...

Turkish archaeologists have discovered a loaf of bread that is approximately 5,000 years old, during an excavation at the Kulluoba site, located 35 kilometers from Eskişehir, in central Turkey. According to the coordinator of the excavations,...

The Romanian College of Dentists warns of a crisis that is being ignored by everyone: poor oral health affects the majority of the population, and early signs, such as bleeding gums, are often overlooked. According to a national study conducted...

Australian researchers have identified a compound that can block the process of cell death, opening new prospects for treatments against Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. A group of researchers from the Walter & Eliza Hall Medical...

The European Court of Auditors published a report yesterday, which shows that the European Union suffers from a chronic disease: the continent's electricity grid cannot cope with current energy production and risks being blocked at any time....

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) rejected, last night, the candidacy of Călin Georgescu in the presidential elections in May. The invalidation of Georgescu's candidacy was voted by ten of the 14 members of the BEC. They claim that the...

Half of patients who received an experimental pancreatic cancer vaccine developed by Roche and BioNTech in an early-stage trial were still alive, most with no signs of disease recurrence, more than three years after treatment, according to a...

The "Apocalypse Vault', the global seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, has received another 14,000 seed samples to protect the planet's agricultural biodiversity. The facility,...

A personalized vaccine against advanced kidney cancer has shown encouraging results in a clinical trial, with all nine patients included generating an anticancer immune response after the first dose. The research, conducted at the Dana-Farber...

The transaction through which the Hungarian company MVM wants to take over the assets of E.On in our country will end up on the table of the Supreme Council for National Defense, said Bogdan Chiriţoiu, president of the Competition Council,...

Air pollution plays a significant role in the increase in the number of cases of lung adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer globally, reveals a new study published in the journal Lancet Respiratory Medicine. With 2.5 million cases...

A new study has found that microplastics and nanoplastics are present in significantly higher amounts in the placentas of babies born prematurely compared to those born at term. The study, conducted by a team of researchers in the US, suggests...

Domestic football suffers from a lack of patience. For a while, it was thought that it was only the disease of those who finance/sponsor/loan teams, but later it turned out that even the fans do not make very long-term plans.

French researchers have discovered that sensitivity to the emulsifier E466 (Carboxymethylcellulose), a food additive used in numerous processed products such as biscuits, sauces or muffins, varies significantly from one person to another. This...

A groundbreaking study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that a combination of two existing biologic drugs can stop the progression of multiple myeloma, a serious type of blood cancer. The research, coordinated...

Climate change is causing milder winters, with a greater number of days in which temperatures exceed 0 degrees Celsius, according to a report published by Climate Central and cited by AFP. The phenomenon has major implications for tourism,...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stressed, during a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), that the climate emergency is essentially an unprecedented health crisis. Climate...

Bee-killing pesticides have been found in 85% of rivers tested in England, an analysis of UK government statistics has revealed. Environmental groups analysed Environment Agency data on neonicotinoid pesticides present in rivers tested in...

The world's agri-food systems generate huge hidden costs, estimated at $12 trillion per year, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Modern diseases such as stroke, diabetes and...

A recent case of bird flu in a pig in Oregon is the first detection of the H5N1 virus in this species in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced. The virus was discovered on a small farm that did not sell the meat...

A recent report by the House of Representatives in the US Congress (ed. - the House of Representatives is led by the Republican Party, whose candidate in the US presidential elections on November 5 is Donald Trump) shows that the Biden...

Human activity often has a boomerang effect. A new study has found that large-scale deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is fueling the spread of malaria. Researchers from the United States and Brazil analyzed data from 2003 to 2022 and found...

Wildlife populations across the planet have suffered a shocking 73% decline in just 50 years, according to WWF's latest Living Planet Report. This dramatic loss signals the highest level of nature degradation in the Anthropocene era, fueling...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is "an incompetent and corrupt organisation", claims Dr Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, as quoted by news site brusselssignal.eu. Christopher...

Vaccination should not be an optional choice, but a collective responsibility, said yesterday, Valeria Herdea, president of the National Health Insurance Company (CNAS), during a conference entitled "The new epidemic season: five threats to...

Medical researchers bring new good news for humans. In the UK, a new £42 million prostate cancer screening trial has been launched with the aim of revolutionizing the way the disease is diagnosed and treated. The study, called Transform,...

Discussions about the laboratory creation of Sars-Cov 2 that led to the Covid-19 pandemic and about the immediate appearance of anti-Covid vaccines are simple assumptions, Dr. Adrian Marinescu, epidemiologist and medical director of the National...

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The global revenue of the pharmaceutical industry was about 1.6 trillion dollars, according to data published in the American and European media. This significant growth has been driven by factors such as advances in personalized medicine, cancer...

The modern pharmaceutical industry, a global market of billions of dollars, is no longer limited to treating and curing the sick. In recent years, new advertising techniques have been developed that aggressively target healthy audiences, turning...