The New York City Lawmakers on Tuesday voted to ban all kinds of e-cigarettes and e-liquid flavours. The move comes in a bid to protect youngsters, among whom, the use of e-cigarettes has surged in recent years. Opponents of the ban were unhappy that they would lose their business and claimed that e-cigarettes have helped tobacco smokers quit. The ban, however, does not cover tobacco. The decision comes at a time when the US health officials grapple with a mysterious vaping lung disease that has killed 42 people across the country.

A 'ground breaking' typhoid vaccine reduced infections by 80 percent in a trial involving 20,000 children in Nepal. This is the first time that the&nbsp;typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) has been tested. While other vaccines for typhoid exist, the current ones haven't worked well in young children. During the field study, half of the children were administered the TCV&nbsp;and the cases of typhoid fell by 81 per cent in the first year of the trial. Currently, the vaccine is being rolled out in Pakistan.&nbsp;

According to The World&nbsp;Malaria Report 2019 released by the World Health Organisation,&nbsp;India along with 19 sub-Saharan Africa countries carry almost 85% of the global malaria burden.&nbsp;While India and Africa witnessed the maximum reduction in malaria cases between 2017 and 2018, the report said that they still accounted for 85% deaths. The report further shared that the estimated burden of malaria is 6.7 million, but only 4 million cases were reported in 2018.

Chemicals used to&nbsp;color or straighten hair have been a cause for concern for many years, but a large new study published in the International Journal of Cancer aims to provide a direction.&nbsp;According to the study, women who used permanent hair dye or straighteners&nbsp;had a higher risk of developing&nbsp;breast cancer.&nbsp;The link was particularly evident in black women &mdash; their use of permanent dye was associated with 45 percent higher breast cancer risk. The findings are based on data collected from over 46,000 women.&nbsp;Hair products contain more than 5,000 chemicals that may damage DNA or interfere with the body&rsquo;s endocrine system, the study noted. The authors conclude that while the risks are meaningful they are small.

A new case of a person contracted with the rare monkeypox&nbsp;virus has been detected in England, health officials announced. Although most people recover after a few weeks, it can be deadly in a small number of cases. Officials are now&nbsp;contacting passengers who flew to the UK with the patient&nbsp;from Nigeria but stressed that the risk to the public was low as it does not spread easily between people.
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A new kind of contraceptive pill, that needs to be taken only once a month, has been developed by US scientists. A team from MIT has devised a new method of packing a month&rsquo;s supply into a single capsule. The tiny star-shaped gadget has six arms containing a certain dose. Currently, it's only been tested on animals and researchers say its years away from being available at drugstores. They will do further tests to see how the capsule breaks down and dissolves in different people.

On the occasion of World Aids Day on 1st December,&nbsp;officials of the Mizoram State AIDS Control Society (MSACS) shared data which shows that&nbsp;Mizoram reports the highest number of AIDS patients in India. Close to 18,000 people are infected with HIV/AIDS in the state,&nbsp;with around nine persons testing positive everyday since the beginning of this year.&nbsp;Officials shared that about&nbsp;2,500 fresh&nbsp;cases were detected in 2018-19, which was &ldquo;extremely high&rdquo; as Mizoram is one of the least populated states in India.

A type of deadly superbug&nbsp;MRSA&nbsp;can get into households and spread easily, shows a new research from Washington University School of Medicine. The superbug&nbsp;that commonly spreads from person to person, can actually linger on household surfaces for months, often causing repeat infections among family members.&nbsp;MRSA used to be quite rare, but antibiotic overuse and misuse has made MRSA more resistant to standard infection-fighting treatments.&nbsp;Researchers analyzed 150 households and almost half of the study participants were found to have MRSA on them at least once over the course of the year-long study.

A new ultrasound technique presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America claims to&nbsp;kill prostate cancer with 80% success rate.&nbsp;Called Tulsa-Pro, the technique involves&nbsp;sending precise doses of sound waves to the diseased prostate tissue. The sound waves heat and destroy the tumour, leaving&nbsp;surrounding areas unharmed. The technique was tested on 115 men and 65 per cent of them had no signs of cancer after one year.&nbsp;The study promises a new treatment alternative to&nbsp;surgery.&nbsp;The process has been approved for clinical use in Europe.

The New York City Lawmakers on Tuesday voted to ban all kinds of e-cigarettes and e-liquid flavours. The move comes in a bid to protect youngsters, among whom, the use of e-cigarettes has surged in recent years. Opponents of the ban were unhappy that they would lose their business and claimed that e-cigarettes have helped tobacco smokers quit. The ban, however, does not cover tobacco. The decision comes at a time when the US health officials grapple with a mysterious vaping lung disease that has killed 42 people across the country.

The World Health Organization has revealed that&nbsp;four in five 11 to 17-year-olds&nbsp;across the world do not engage in enough physical exercise, failing to exercise for the minimum recommendation of 60 minutes a day. But adolescents&nbsp;in India are more active than their peers globally. The WHO states that factors like increased domestic chores for girls around the house and the focus on sports like cricket for boys, contribute to the increase in physical activity among Indians. The study was published in The Lancet Child &amp; Adolescent Health journal.&nbsp;

Air pollution may be associated with glaucoma, a condition that causes blindness, according to a new study by University College London. For the study, researchers studied 111,000 people across Britain between 2006 and 2010. It concluded that those living in areas with higher amounts of fine particulate matter were at a 6% greater risk of developing glaucoma than others. While further analysis is needed to confirm the findings and if the association is causal, researchers suggest that this could be another reason why air pollution must be addressed as an emergency.

Patients suffering from terminal prostate cancer could get 'two more years of life' with a new experimental immunotherapy drug tested by researchers at&nbsp;&nbsp;The Institute of Cancer Research, London.&nbsp;&nbsp;258 patients who had exhausted all treatment options were studied and were administered the&nbsp;&nbsp;IV drug pembrolizumab. 20 patients saw their tumour disappear or shrink.&nbsp; Immunotherapy has worked for cancers such as&nbsp;melanomas.&nbsp;

To make lives of those living with HIV easier and eradicate stigmas associated with the virus, the world's first HIV positive sperm bank has been launched in New Zealand. Called Sperm Positive, it currently has three male donors who are living with the virus but the level is so low that it cannot be detected with the conventional methods. So essentially, it means that the virus cannot be passed on and the patients' treatment is working well. The online sperm bank will make this clear to people who need donors. The initiative is a collaboration between New Zealand Aids Foundation, Positive Women Inc and Body Positive.&nbsp;

A study on smart phone&nbsp;addiction among adolescents has found that one in every four kid has a 'very problematic relationship with their phone.' Conducted by researchers at King&rsquo;s College London, the obsession with phone was shown to be similar to typical addiction symptoms panicking&nbsp;or getting upset when their phone was unavailable, difficulty in controlling the amount of time spent on the phone and preferring their phone over other enjoyable activities.&nbsp;The researchers accessed 41 different studies linking mental health and smart phone addiction since the year 2011, analysing almost 42,000 young adults.&nbsp;

Cancer patients have a higher risk of heart disease. Researchers from the Penn State College of Medicine say that more attention should be given to cardiovascular risks for cancer survivors. Researchers found that people suffering from cancer were more prone to die of heart disease than of cancer. The study, which was published in the European Heart Journal studied&nbsp;3.23 million cancer patients. It revealed that 11 percent of patients died from Cardiovascular Diseases, out of which&nbsp;three-quarters were from heart disease. This was highest in those patients suffering from&nbsp;cancer of the bladder, larynx, prostate, womb, bowel and breast.&nbsp;

A study carried out by&nbsp;Researchers from the University of Southern California on a group of&nbsp;elderly women reveals that exposure to high levels of fine air pollutants may cause decline in memory, and lead to Alzheimer's-like brain damage. Researchers found that the tiny size of&nbsp;PM2.5 particles, that&nbsp;mostly come from&nbsp;traffic exhaust, smoke and dust, allowed them to remain airborne for a longer time, get inside buildings, be inhaled easily and reach and accumulate in the brain. Researchers used brain scans from&nbsp;998 women, aged 73 to 87 and combined it&nbsp;with environmental data from the locations where they lived to reach the conclusion.&nbsp;
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A pilot project of a 'paperless' hospital facility has begun in Gorakhpur. The facility will help overcome inconveniences like the lack of doctors in local regions. Here, the patients get on a video call with doctors from areas like Hyderabad. Everything from flu to diabetes can be dealt with. Free consultation is available at the facility and the patients only need to bring an ID proof. Everything from the consultation to the prescription of medicines is done online.&nbsp;

Almost 5,000 people have died in what the WHO is calling the world's largest measles outbreak in Congo in 2019. Poor infrastructure and lack of access to health care have hindered efforts to stop the spread of the outbreak. Majority of those affected are infants.&nbsp;

Living near busy roads increases the risk of lung cancer by 10 percent, according to a study by researchers from King&rsquo;s College London. The study is a first-of-its kind to examine health conditions linked to living near exposed areas and busy roads.&nbsp;&nbsp;Living within 50 metres of a busy road&nbsp;stunts lung growth in children by 3&ndash;14% and increases the risk of lung cancer. The study examined 13 cities in the UK and Poland.&nbsp;

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration have cautioned people against eating romaine lettuce amidst reports of a new E. coli outbreak in the US. The warning comes for all types of romaine lettuce harvested in Salinas, California growing region, and the advisory suggests throwing it all away. Even places where it may have been stored must be washed and sanitised. According to the alert, around 40 people have been infected from 16 states in the US and 5 people developed a kind of kidney failure.

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