Massive efforts needed to reduce salt intake and protect lives

15-Mar-2023 - A first-of-its-kind World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world is off-track to achieve its global target of reducing sodium intake by 30% by 2025. Sodium, an essential nutrient, increases the risk of heart disease, stroke and premature death ...

Does bacon cause cancer?

Processed red meat classified as carcinogen by WHO

27-Oct-2015 - Bacon, Hot-Dogs and other processed red meat products are classified as carcinogenic by the WHO. The classification relies on studies from 22 experts in 10 countries. The evidences consist of limited evidences that red meat may cause cancer in humans and more strong evidences about the ...

Antibiotics based on a new principle may defeat MRSA

03-Jan-2013 - Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have presented a new principle for fighting bacterial infections, in other words, a new type of antibiotic. The new antibiotic mechanism is based on selectively blocking the thioredoxin system in the cells, which is crucial to the growth of certain ...

Risk re-classified for carcinogenic everyday substance: X-ray expert "decodes" diesel soot

08-Aug-2012 - Since June 2012, it is official: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified diesel soot as a lung carcinogen. Artur Braun, a physicist at Empa and an X-ray spectroscopy expert, has made crucial contributions to analyzing the structure and composition of soot particles. Soot particles are ...

Sanofi Pasteur receives order from French Government to produce novel influenza A(H1N1) vaccine

Sanofi Pasteur to supply 28 million doses of A(H1N1) influenza vaccine

17-Jul-2009 - Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the sanofi-aventis Group, announced it has received an order from the French Ministry of Health to produce a vaccine against the novel A(H1N1) influenza virus. This order from the French Ministry of Health provides for the initial supply of 28 million ...

Scientists discover the travel patterns of seasonal flu

Findings may lead to improved flu vaccines

22-Apr-2008 - Outbreaks of the most common type of influenza virus, A (H3N2), are seeded by viruses that originate in East and Southeast Asia and migrate around the world, new research has found. This discovery may help to further improve flu vaccines and make the evolution of the virus more ...