Australia’s Great Barrier Reef struggles to survive
LIZARD ISLAND, Australia (April 17): Australia’s famed Great Barrier Reef is suffering one of the most severe coral bleaching events…
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Health specialist: Don’t take heat stroke lightly
KOTA BHARU (April 7): Members of the public have been advised not to take the risk of heat stroke lightly…
Diabetes drug shows promise against Parkinson’s in clinical study
WASHINGTON (April 4): A drug used to treat diabetes slowed the progression of motor issues associated with Parkinson’s disease, a…
How period tracking could boost performance of female Olympians
PARIS (April 1): French swimmer Caroline Jouisse has been keeping track of her periods using her phone over the last year,…
Expert: Taking symptoms lightly among major hurdles in TB eradication in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR (March 25): Taking symptoms lightly and patients’ failure to complete their treatment, are among the major hurdles in…
Global fertility rate to keep plummeting, major study warns
PARIS (March 21): The population of almost every country will be shrinking by the end of the century, a major study…
How genetic therapies transformed the lives of sickle cell patients
WASHINGTON (March 18): Their stories are divided into before and after. First, those long years of pain which flooded every moment…
Cancer patients in the Philippines falling for alternative ‘cures’
MANILA (March 15): Filipino single mother Mary Ann Eduarte delayed chemotherapy for her breast cancer for several years and instead took…