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News Hour: Instead of drinking milk or taking supplements to get adequate amounts of calcium, calcium-rich mineral water is an equally good source, researchers say. “The special feature of mineral water as a source of calcium...

News Hour: Ahead of the G20 in Hamburg this week (7-8 July), a special issue of The Lancet examines Germany’s health system and the country’s emerging role as a leader in global health. The two-paper Series...

News Hour: Global entertainer and humanitarian Beyoncé has teamed up with UNICEF through her BeyGOOD philanthropic arm to announce the launch of BEYGOOD4BURUNDI, a multi-year partnership to provide safe water to the most vulnerable children in...

News Hour: Use of low-dose aspirin lowers the risk for preeclampsia among women determined to be at high risk during first-trimester screening, according to a study presented at a meeting of the Fetal Medicine Foundation and...

News Hour: While performance was improved in high-intensity tests, endurance and road race performances were similar for EPO group and placebo. For well-trained non-professional cyclists, the performance enhancing drug rHuEPO (recombinant human erythropoietin) appears to have...

News Hour: Two new trials in JAMA report mixed findings for acupuncture: One shows that acupuncture may help treat stress urinary incontinence, while the other shows no effect on infertility associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)....

News Hour: Dissolvable vaccine patch could result in fewer sharps waste, was found to be stable for one year at 40 degrees Celsius and was successfully self-applied by participants. Delivering the influenza vaccine via a dissolvable...

News Hour: A self-help approach to a graded exercise program, supervised by a specialist physiotherapist, is safe and may reduce fatigue for some people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), according to a new trial of 200...

News Hour: Novartis announced new baseline results from a real world study of 3,733 chronic urticaria (CU) patients showing many are not receiving adequate care, with almost half (42%) not receiving any treatment at all for...

News Hour: Novartis announced the results of a new survey of 904 severe asthma patients, presented today for the first time at the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Congress. Data from the ‘Still...