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Cough syrup row | Zero tolerance on spurious medicines, 71 firms issued notices, says Health Minister Mandaviya

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has said 71 companies have been issued show-cause notices following concerns raised in some quarters about reported deaths due to contaminated India-made cough syrups.

The Hindu

UK supermarket supplier’s chickens given antibiotics critical for humans

Investigation of meat sourced by Polish firm that sells frozen poultry to Lidl, Asda and Iceland raises superbug concerns

The Guardian - UK

Safety first: on Indian pharma products and drug safety

India can continue to be the pharmacy of the global south only if the regulator acts like a watchdog to ensure drug safety

The Hindu

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‘If you have dreams, follow them!’ Paul Nicholas on Bowie, the Bee Gees, playing Jesus – and ruffling the king’s hair

In six decades in showbiz, he has been murdered by Screaming Lord Sutch, played the lead in Hair, had hit singles and a hit sitcom – and surprised Serge Gainsbourg

The Guardian - UK

The world’s most polluted cities

New York was ranked as the world’s most polluted city after smoke billowing in from Canadian wildfires left residents choking on a thick cloud of smog.

The Week

Do Airpods Cause Hearing Loss? This Science-Backed Trick Will Protect Your Ears

An audiologist describes how listening to loud music in earphones every day could cause long-term hearing damage.

Inverse

10 famous father/son drumming duos

The dads who raised successful sticksmen

MusicRadar

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Ceasefire deal holds in Sudan after two months of fighting

Sudan's warring parties have begun a ceasefire, as two months of fighting pushes the African nation into further chaos.

The New Daily

Sudan begins a cease-fire ahead of a pledging conference to raise funds for humanitarian assistance

Sudan’s warring parties have begun a cease-fire, as two months of fighting pushed the African nation into further chaos

The Independent UK

Lobbyists with links to Big Tobacco fund pro-vaping Facebook campaigns

Secretive lobby groups are spreading pro-e-cigarette messages purporting to be grassroots campaigns

The Guardian - UK

As Sudan war rages, rival sides accused of looting, diverting aid

Aid workers, medics and experts say army and RSF both steal aid, restrict access and impose rent-seeking impediments.

Al Jazeera

The Who’s Pete Townshend tells the story behind ‘Tommy,’ now reinvented at Chicago's Goodman Theatre

CHICAGO — In the beginning, there was no pinball wizard.

Chicago Tribune

Long Covid: a medical mystery

In early 2020, when Covid-19 was spreading rapidly across the globe, the data suggested that it was a short-lived infection.

The Week

How Tamil Nadu is isolating, eliminating chronic ailments using door-to-door screening

Tamil Nadu’s “Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam” (MTM), a scheme that takes health services to the doorsteps of people and which was profiled recently by WHO, may be a step in the right direction in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCD).

The Hindu

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Los Angeles Times

COVID vaccine should be updated to target XBB strain, FDA committee says

With an eye toward enhancing protection against the coronavirus, which is still evolving and circulating, federal health advisers said Thursday that the next round of COVID-19 vaccines should be updated to target the now-dominant XBB strains.

The Hindu

Culture shift: On the U.S.’s UNESCO re-entry

UNESCO must get tough with countries exiting and re-entering the organisation on frivolous grounds and also frame policies that accommodate the tussles of a hyper-connected world.

The Independent UK

Evaluation of UK’s pandemic preparedness was ‘simply wrong’, expert says

The World Health Organisation carried out a joint external evaluation of the UK’s ability to cope with public health risks prior to the pandemic.

Daily Mirror

Covid Inquiry: What we learned on Day 3 as plans for a future pandemic branded inadequate

The Covid inquiry will next week hear from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former prime minister David Cameron, as well as Sir Chris Whitty and former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance

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Wales Online

Temperature your home should be at during a heatwave to avoid risk of heart attack

Having your home too warm can result in major health issues

Wales Online

China accused of researching covid bioweapon before pandemic in new report

The allegation is that the Chinese military wanted a vaccine to inoculate their own population if they ever wanted to use the virus for biowarfare

Daily Record

Deadly virus now 'highly likely' to hit UK in new climate change warning

A potentially fatal virus that is killing almost half of patients is now 'highly likely' to hit the UK alongside other illness spread by insects, that are 'marching north' because of climate change.

The Conversation

Measles and whooping cough outbreaks in South Africa: a sign of low vaccination coverage, experts warn

The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000-2020, childhood vaccination led to the reduction of deaths in children under 5 by 50% to 5.4 million deaths per year. Vaccination currently averts…

The Guardian - UK

UK heatwave: five ways to stay cool and safe

We look at how to handle hot conditions, from staying inside to knowing when to seek help

The Conversation

What if China really did develop COVID as a bioweapon? Here are the issues involved

China is facing renewed allegations that the COVID-19 outbreak was caused by a leak from one of their laboratories – and that this research is connected to biowarfare.

The Conversation

Woman jailed over abortion – an expert on what UK law actually says and what needs to change

Many people assume that because abortion is relatively accessible in England, it is not a crime. The fact that a woman has now received a 28-month prison sentence for taking abortion pills past the legal time limit shows that this assumption is wrong.

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