BEIJING (Reuters) – China has culled 916,000 pigs after around 100 outbreaks of African swine fever in the country, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday, as the disease continues to spread to new regions and larger farms. FILE PHOTO: A student feeds pigs at a farm next to a primary school in Xuanwei, Yunnan province,… Read More »
By MICHAEL MILLENSON Abbott Ventures chief Evan Norton may have spent part of his youth on a farm, but there’s no manure in his manner when speaking of the medical device and diagnostics market landscape. The key, he says, is to avoid being blindsided by the transformational power of digital data. “We’ve been competing against Medtronic and J&J,… Read More »
Shahi Snan at Kumbh Mela (Photo credits: Facebook/DY365) The Ardh Kumbh Mela 2019 has begun today in Prayagraj. Starting on the auspicious day of Makar Sankranti, the religious pilgrimage will go on till March 4. The mass gathering of faith sees a huge number of Hindus gathering to bathe in the sacred river or at… Read More »
Multiple sclerosis causes many symptoms, including loss of mobility, fatigue, and pain. There are, however, lots of prescribed and natural remedies that can help lessen the impact of the pain. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, often disabling condition that affects the central nervous system. There, it interrupts the flow of neurological signals between the… Read More »
Chances are good that at least once in your life, you enjoyed a feast of Chinese food, only to start feeling weird as soon as you finished the fortune cookie. Maybe you experienced tingling and dizziness, maybe you got a bad headache. In any event, you learned then that monosodium glutamate (MSG), a frequent addition… Read More »