Health News
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23Abu Dhabi’s Rizek is first non-healthcare app to introduce COVID-19 testing
A non-healthtech startup has become the first of its kind to offer on-demand polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for COVID-19 in the...
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30We Need One Million Volunteers for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
We need one million more citizens to volunteer for the COVID-19 vaccine trials. Almost half a million Americans have signed up to...
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21Was FDA Lax in Approving Opioids Too Easily?
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — For at least two decades, the U.S. Food...
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19Smart sock maker Siren adds $9M to this summer’s Series B
Siren, a smart textile company known for its temperature-monitoring socks, has added another $9 million to an $11.8 million Series B raise...
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21Pets Helped People Cope During Pandemic: Study
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Pets helped many people cope with the mental...
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35Let the coronavirus spread among young people? It’s not a good idea
By Jessica Hamzelou People partying in London on 12 SeptemberDominic Lipinski/PA Wire/PA Images Coronavirus cases are rising again across the UK. Without...
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29‘Game Changing’ 15-Minute COVID-19 Test Cleared in Europe
Becton Dickinson and Co.’s COVID-19 test that returns results in 15 minutes has been cleared for use in countries that accept Europe’s...
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20A Potential Downside of Intermittent Fasting
Studies have found, for example, that overweight adults lose more weight and have greater improvements in their cardiovascular risk factors when they...
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24Europe’s second covid-19 wave is here but is it bigger than the first?
By Michael Le Page Covid-19 testing in Strasbourg, FranceJean-Francois Badias/AP/Shutterstock In Europe, the long-predicted second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is now...
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21Ultromics and Mayo Clinic partner up for AI diagnosis of heart failure
A research programme led by US-based non-profit medical centre Mayo Clinic and UK health tech firm Ultromics will apply AI to forecast...
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24Will Pfizer’s Vaccine Be Ready in October? Here’s Why That’s Unlikely.
In media appearances and talks with investors, Pfizer’s chief executive nearly always mentions a word that is so politically perilous, most of...
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21She Craved Salt and Felt Nauseated for Months. What Was Wrong?
The doctor greeted her warmly. Then, more sternly, said: “It looks like you have a suntan. Have you been out in the...
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76Raccoon.World closes €900k seed funding for digital physiotherapy platform
EU-based startup, Raccoon.World, has recently raised an additional €625k from private investment fund Quarter Partners in the second phase of its seed funding round,...
