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Feb22021 by adminNo Comments

Myanmar coup: ‘People really angry and sad – they will show resistance to military’

World

Journalist Shwe Mon was in Naypyidaw, Myanmar's capital, for the opening of parliament but woke up to a military coup.They have spoken to Sky's Southeast Asia correspondent Siobhan Robbins about their experience and the mood on the streets after a number of top politicians were detained including Aung San Suu Kyi - the leader of the country's democratically elected ruling party (NLD). The journalist's name has been changed to protect their identity. Image: A man rides his motorbike in Naypyitaw. Pic: AP I woke around 4.20am and we had lost internet and mobile signal... and then we turned on the TV and there was only religious and military channels… and I asked my friend who was sharing the room with me, 'what shall we do?' ...

Jan12021 by adminNo Comments

Genetic mutations that cause malaria drug resistance common in Asia, Africa

Health

Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Genetic mutations that fuel resistance to a drug intended to prevent malaria in pregnant women and children are common in countries that are fighting the disease, according to a PLOS Genetics analysis. Mutations of a gene linked with resistance to the drug sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in the parasite that causes malaria were discovered in one-fourth of the samples collected in southeast Asia and one-third of those obtained in Africa, the researchers said. Advertisement The growth in the number of malaria parasites with mutations to the gene pfgch1 are concerning because they may increase resistance to the drug, they said. "We need to understand how these mutations work and monitor them as part of malaria surveillance programs," study co-author Taane Clark, a professor of gen...

Nov22019 by adminNo Comments

Trump’s move to Florida could run into resistance from New York

Finance

President Donald Trump addresses the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual convention at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida on October 8, 2018.Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump is making his move to Florida official.His home state of New York may not let him go without a fight.The president, a native of the Queens borough, tweeted on Thursday night that he and his family will be making Palm Beach, Florida, their permanent residence."I cherish New York, and the people of New York, and always will," Trump tweeted."But unfortunately, despite the fact I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state," he wrote.The warm weather isn't the ...

May162019 by adminNo Comments

Cancer: Breakthrough treatments to target drug resistance

Health

The world's first drugs designed to stop cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment could be available within the next decade, scientists have said.A £75m investment to develop the drugs has been announced by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).Chief executive Prof Paul Workman said cancer's ability to adapt to drugs is the biggest challenge in treatment.The new drugs could make cancer a "manageable" disease in the long term and "more often curable", he said.Researchers say existing treatments such as chemotherapy sometimes fail because the deadliest cancer cells adapt and survive, causing the patient to relapse.Prof Workman said: "Cancer's ability to adapt, evolve and become drug resistant was the cause of the vast majority of deaths from the diseas...

Jan242019 by adminNo Comments

Antibiotic resistance plan to fight 'urgent' global threat

Health

Drug-resistant superbugs are as big a threat as climate change, the health secretary will say as he unveils a new five-year plan to tackle the problem.Overuse of antibiotics is making infections harder to treat and leading to thousands of deaths a year through drug-resistant superbugs.The government plans to change the way it funds drug companies to encourage them to develop new medicines.It is also increasing efforts to cut unnecessary use of the drugs.'An urgent global response'The government's plan aims to control and contain antimicrobial resistance - a term that covers drug resistance in bacteria, viruses, parasites and other infections - by 2040, and reduce the use of antibiotics in humans by 15% over the next five years.It also plans to cut antibio...