Memory: a new dietary supplement on the market
A French start-up has just marketed NSP01, a food supplement supposed to preserve memory and improve cognitive functions. This product ...
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Rabies still kills tens of thousands of people a year
Nearly 59,000 people die of rabies every year worldwide, a third of them in India. According to a item of ...
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Resistance to malaria treatment concentrates in Asia
© FotoliaNew breakthrough in the fight against malaria. Since the beginning of the 2000s, scientific progress has made it possible ...
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Malaria: a resistant form spreads to Vietnam
A new strain of malaria from western Cambodia is now affecting Vietnam, and is resistant to the treatment mainly used.The ...
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Hypertension is gaining ground around the world, especially in Asia
© iStockPhotosIf you think hypertension is one of those diseases that only affects the West, think again. The phenomenon has ...
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Bird flu: duck merchant dies in China
A roast duck merchant died of infection with the H7N9 avian influenza virus. This is the 36th death in China ...
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Malaria eradicated in Sri Lanka
After a long fight against this mosquito-borne disease, Sri Lanka has succeeded in eradicating malaria. It is the 6th country ...
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Zika: Singapore has 27 new indigenous cases
The city-state of Singapore has reported 27 new cases of Zika virus infection. These indigenous cases are more and more ...
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Leprosy: 200,000 victims each year worldwide
Leprosy still affects a hundred countries in the world, remind the associations on the occasion of the 63rd World Lepers ...
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The plague would have arrived from Central Asia at the end of the Neolithic period
December 29, 2017. The plague would have arrived in Europe several thousand years ago, transported by populations fleeing Central Asia. ...
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Nordic shrimp more nutritious than that from Asia
QUEBEC (PasseportSanté.net) January 30, 2009 - The nutritional quality of northern shrimp, also called “Matane shrimp”, is said to be ...
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The number of working children has fallen by a third since 2000
The fight against child labor is bearing fruit, underlines the International Labor Organization, but 11% of all children are still ...
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