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"Huge Biological Risk," Warns WHO After Sudan Fighters Occupy Health Lab
The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan had occupied a central public laboratory holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an "extremely, extremely dangerous" situation.
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WHO Tells Ukraine To Destroy Pathogens In Health Labs In Case They Are Bombed
The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters on Thursday.
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Andhra Pradesh Seeks Regular Testing Of Food, Water After Mystery Disease
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday directed officials to set up public health laboratories in all districts to regularly test food, drinking water and soil samples for possible presence of carcinogenic substances in the backdrop of a mysterious disease that affected several residents in Eluru.
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Wife Of Canada's First Coronavirus Patient Tests Positive, 19 Under Investigation
The wife of Canada's first confirmed patient with the fast-spreading Wuhan coronavirus also has tested positive for it at an Ontario laboratory, and 19 other suspected cases in Canada are under investigation, public health officials said on Monday.
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Lack Of Sleep Is A Public Health Crisis, Brain Researchers' Warning
Brain research, which has pushed back hard against this nonchalant attitude, is now expanding rapidly, reaching beyond the laboratory and delving into exactly how sleep works in disease and in normal cognitive functions such as memory.
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Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Amla Juice Found 'Unfit' for Consumption
Baba Ramdev's FMCG company, Patanjalihas comeunder the scanner afterthe West Bengal Public Health Laboratory in Kolkata found a batch of the Patanjali Amla Juice 'unfit' for consumption.
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Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Amla Juice Fails Lab Test, Taken Off Army Canteen Shelves
The Canteen Stores Department, the retailing entity selling consumer goods to armed forces, has suspended sale of a batch of Patanjali Ayurveda's amla juice after it "failed" to clear a laboratory test.
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Drug Industry Says US-Led Trade Deal to Raise Prices
Leaders of India's $15 billion pharmaceuticals industry, a major supplier of affordable generics to the world, have joined public health activists in criticising a new US-led trade deal they say will delay the arrival of new cheap drugs.
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5 Fall Sick After Consuming Instant Noodles
At least 36 samples of various kinds of instant noodles imported from Singapore, Nepal and Thailand have been sent for tests at the Guwahati-based Public Health Laboratory for testing.
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5 Hospitalised After Consuming Instant Noodles in Shillong
Five persons including four minors of a family were hospitalised after they consumed ready-to-eat noodles here, a senior police official said today.
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US Laboratory Suspect Anthrax May Have Been Taken Into Pentagon: Report
The US Defense Department is investigating to determine if live anthrax was brought into the Pentagon after an Army laboratory in Utah mistakenly shipped out live batches of the potentially lethal bacteria, CNN reported on Tuesday.
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Europeans Find Fault At Ranbaxy Plant; Say No Public Health Risk
The regulators said they were satisfied that corrective measures put in place by the company were sufficient to ensure products at the site will be in compliance with good manufacturing practices and they will reinstate the GMP certificate that was suspended in January.
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Taste Test: Lab-Grown Hamburger Short on Flavor
The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning -- and maybe some cheese.Two volunteers who took the first public bites of hamburger grown in a laboratory gave it good marks for texture but agreed there was something missing."I miss the salt...
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Ranbaxy drugs are 'safe and efficacious': South Africa
The South African subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical company has also issued a similar statement, assuring the public that drugs manufactured locally are safe.
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How India's 'free medicine to all' policy transforms lives
From city hospitals to tiny rural clinics, India's public doctors will soon be able to prescribe free generic drugs to all comers.
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"Huge Biological Risk," Warns WHO After Sudan Fighters Occupy Health Lab
The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan had occupied a central public laboratory holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an "extremely, extremely dangerous" situation.
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WHO Tells Ukraine To Destroy Pathogens In Health Labs In Case They Are Bombed
The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters on Thursday.
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Andhra Pradesh Seeks Regular Testing Of Food, Water After Mystery Disease
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday directed officials to set up public health laboratories in all districts to regularly test food, drinking water and soil samples for possible presence of carcinogenic substances in the backdrop of a mysterious disease that affected several residents in Eluru.
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Wife Of Canada's First Coronavirus Patient Tests Positive, 19 Under Investigation
The wife of Canada's first confirmed patient with the fast-spreading Wuhan coronavirus also has tested positive for it at an Ontario laboratory, and 19 other suspected cases in Canada are under investigation, public health officials said on Monday.
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Lack Of Sleep Is A Public Health Crisis, Brain Researchers' Warning
Brain research, which has pushed back hard against this nonchalant attitude, is now expanding rapidly, reaching beyond the laboratory and delving into exactly how sleep works in disease and in normal cognitive functions such as memory.
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Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Amla Juice Found 'Unfit' for Consumption
Baba Ramdev's FMCG company, Patanjalihas comeunder the scanner afterthe West Bengal Public Health Laboratory in Kolkata found a batch of the Patanjali Amla Juice 'unfit' for consumption.
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Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Amla Juice Fails Lab Test, Taken Off Army Canteen Shelves
The Canteen Stores Department, the retailing entity selling consumer goods to armed forces, has suspended sale of a batch of Patanjali Ayurveda's amla juice after it "failed" to clear a laboratory test.
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Drug Industry Says US-Led Trade Deal to Raise Prices
Leaders of India's $15 billion pharmaceuticals industry, a major supplier of affordable generics to the world, have joined public health activists in criticising a new US-led trade deal they say will delay the arrival of new cheap drugs.
-
5 Fall Sick After Consuming Instant Noodles
At least 36 samples of various kinds of instant noodles imported from Singapore, Nepal and Thailand have been sent for tests at the Guwahati-based Public Health Laboratory for testing.
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5 Hospitalised After Consuming Instant Noodles in Shillong
Five persons including four minors of a family were hospitalised after they consumed ready-to-eat noodles here, a senior police official said today.
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US Laboratory Suspect Anthrax May Have Been Taken Into Pentagon: Report
The US Defense Department is investigating to determine if live anthrax was brought into the Pentagon after an Army laboratory in Utah mistakenly shipped out live batches of the potentially lethal bacteria, CNN reported on Tuesday.
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Europeans Find Fault At Ranbaxy Plant; Say No Public Health Risk
The regulators said they were satisfied that corrective measures put in place by the company were sufficient to ensure products at the site will be in compliance with good manufacturing practices and they will reinstate the GMP certificate that was suspended in January.
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Taste Test: Lab-Grown Hamburger Short on Flavor
The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning -- and maybe some cheese.Two volunteers who took the first public bites of hamburger grown in a laboratory gave it good marks for texture but agreed there was something missing."I miss the salt...
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Ranbaxy drugs are 'safe and efficacious': South Africa
The South African subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical company has also issued a similar statement, assuring the public that drugs manufactured locally are safe.
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How India's 'free medicine to all' policy transforms lives
From city hospitals to tiny rural clinics, India's public doctors will soon be able to prescribe free generic drugs to all comers.
