Peru surpassed half a million coronavirus cases and has the highest fatality rate in Latin America, according to Health Ministry data on Thursday, as the government struggles to contain a recent surge of infections.

An immunomodulatory drug called fingolimod, which is approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, blocks human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and transmission in human immune cells, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Rachel Resop, a postdoctoral fellow, and Alberto Bosque, an assistant professor, of the George Washington University, and colleagues.

Medicine named Remdesivir produced by an Iranian knowledge-based company can be exported to the foreign market, Director of Health and Technology Development Office of the Health and Medical Education Ministry Hossein Vatanpour said on Friday.

Smoking is strongly linked to lower use of cancer screening services by women, and more advanced disease once cancer is diagnosed, reveals research published in the online British Medical Journal Open.

Researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Queensland, Australia, have used nationwide cancer mapping statistics of their country to develop a new mathematical model so health professionals can further question patterns relating to the disease.

Older adults with diabetes are nearly three times as likely to develop pancreatic cancer than the general population, according to an analysis published by JAMA Oncology.

People should not fear spread of COVID-19 in food, packaging: WHO

Iran's Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said on Wednesday that the coronavirus claimed the lives of 188 more Iranians from Tuesday to Wednesday, bringing the total death toll to 18,988.

Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of its COVID-19 vaccine would be ready for some medics within two weeks and rejected as “groundless” safety concerns aired by some experts over Moscow’s rapid approval of the drug.

High cholesterol levels are troublesome as it means there is too much 'bad' cholesterol floating in the blood, which can result in serious complications.