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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...

• b) Metabolic syndrome - one of the invented diseases 

Industria farmaceutică modernă, o piaţă globală de miliarde de dolari, nu se mai limitează la tratarea şi vindecarea celor bolnavi. În ultimii ani, s-au dezvoltat noi tehnici de publicitate, care vizează agresiv publicul sănătos, transformând...

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...

The pharma industry has been in a real economic and financial boom for 20 years, which is supported by recent technical developments, biotechnological research-innovation and deepening research on DNA and every microcell in the human body. An...

The citizens of the member states of the European Union were the guinea pigs of the companies Astra Zeneca and Pfizer regarding the anti-Covid 19 vaccines, with the agreement of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), it appears from the audit...

Stopping the aging process has always been a challenge for humans. A recent study, published in the journal Nature Aging and conducted by researchers from Stanford University and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, brings new insight...

Our country has faced a new wave of heat waves in recent days. This is the first red heat code (the tenth this summer) ever issued in August in Romania, the director of the National Meteorological Administration, Elena Mateescu, said. Entire...

Freedom was wider before the COVID-19 pandemic, and now we hardly remember that until the year 2020 we lived completely differently. Moreover, epidemics had a profound impact on the history of humanity, shaping the course of civilizations and...

Forests are being cut down at an accelerated rate all over the world, the disease is not exclusively indigenous. The "lung of the world" began to suffer from deforestation. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased in July for the...

The National Veterinary Sanitary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) announced, yesterday, through a press release, that in our country there are 37 active outbreaks of plague of small ruminants, with a total of 218,756 affected animals. Of these,...

Slowing down the aging process can be achieved in the not too distant future. By blocking a single protein, scientists say they have been able to extend the average life expectancy of mice by about 25%, a success that raises the question of...

The hysteria related to the coronavirus has passed, but that does not mean that people are no longer dying from it globally. Official data supports this. COVID-19 still causes about 1,700 deaths per week globally, the World Health Organization...

Climate change affects the lives of all living things on the planet. These do not bypass pet dogs and cats, who are now faced year-round with fleas and ticks, parasites that feed on blood and can transmit potentially fatal diseases. Milder...

Excess pills are often harmful to health. A study found that taking daily multivitamins does not help people live longer and may even increase the risk of premature death. US researchers analyzed the medical records of nearly 400,000 adults who...

Poluarea rămâne un pericol major la adresa vieţii pe pământ. Poluarea aerului, atât cea din spaţii interioare, cât şi din exterior, face numeroase victime la nivel global, printre care şi copii, şi este de acum mult mai letală decât tabagismul,...

Pollution remains a major threat to life on earth. Air pollution, both indoor and outdoor, causes numerous victims globally, including children, and is now much more lethal than smoking, according to a report published under the auspices of...

There are certain things heavily promoted on various channels that are very harmful to people's health. Tobacco, ultra-processed foods, fossil fuels and alcohol, promoted by industry lobbies, are responsible for 2.7 million deaths a year in...

More than one in four children in the world under the age of 5 lives in "severe food poverty", which means that more than 180 million children are at risk of suffering serious consequences if they do not have a nutritious and diversified...

Seen as a real "disease" afflicting humanity, the Internet also has benefits for... health. We don't say it, but serious specialists from Oxford. The data they provide can change the way online social interaction is viewed. The...

The planet is changing at the same time as the climate. The effects are devastating for certain species. The earth has changed under the effects of human activity and, in this new environment, infectious diseases proliferate. Recent studies have...

Fundamental rights of employees have been faltering more and more lately. For example, sick leave seems, in many cases, a fad from the perspectives of certain governors. On the other hand, the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rafila, stated that...

Humanity is also preparing for an extreme crisis situation. A warehouse set up in an area of the Arctic covered in ice to save the world's agricultural crops from extinction has received batches of seeds from the largest number of new...

There are also happy "accidents" in the pharmaceutical field. Combinations of substances dedicated to the treatment of one condition also prove effective for others. A drug already known and used to treat asthma, called Xolair, proved...

Medical experts emphasize the importance of developing collaboration and medical education in the field of rare diseases. The project "Together MANY for RARE," launched in the fall of 2022, primarily involves organizing meetings between...

The statements of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, related to medical leaves, managed to produce waves, mostly of indignation. "A sneeze can make all the people within a two-meter radius sick," the Alliance of Chronic Patients from Romania...

Medicine is about to take another big step forward. Researchers have discovered a new drug that can successfully inhibit the development of the most aggressive form of breast cancer. A preclinical study led by the University of Adelaide,...

The 10% taxation of medical leave, a measure introduced by GEO 115/2023, is contested by some leaders of the governing coalition who want to eliminate this tax for certain categories of patients, through a legislative amendment. Senator Nicoleta...

Science and medicine give a chance at life to people facing serious conditions. Surgeons and scientists have developed a world-first blood test for brain cancer, which experts say could revolutionize diagnosis, speed up treatment and increase...

Once again, Romania is facing protests from employees in the public health system. Economists have a rich experience with underperforming public systems: more money does not bring an increase in quality, especially in the absence of placing these...