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Sunak, Truss clash over tax plans ahead of debate
London, Aug 4 Former British Chancellor Rishi Sunak launched a fresh attack on the incumbent Foreign Secretary Liz Truss's plans for tax cuts ahead of their next debate on Thursday in their quest to become the UK's new Prime Minister. Sunak said his rival in the Conservative leadership race would ...Gout flare-ups may up heart attack, stroke risk for upto 120 days: Study
London, Aug 4 The risk of heart attacks and strokes temporarily increases in the four months after a gout flare, finds a study. The research, by experts at the universities of Nottingham and Keele in the UK, showed that gout patients who suffered from a heart attack or stroke were ...Liz Truss gets 34-point lead in latest opinion poll of Conservative members
London, Aug 3 UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss opened up an astonishing 34-point lead in the latest opinion poll of Conservative members who make up the electorate, suggesting her contender for party leadership and the PM's post, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak has a mountain to climb, media ...Married, educated men more likely to outlive women: Study
London, Aug 3 Men -- especially those who are married and have a degree -- have a high probability of outliving women, reveals a statistical analysis spanning 200 years across different countries, including India. Challenging the popular notion that men simply don't live as long as women, the study, published ...UK scientists working on single Covid, cold vaccine
London, July 28 A specific area of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein could be a promising target for a pan-coronavirus vaccine that could offer some protection against new virus variants, common colds, and help prepare for future pandemics, according to a team of scientists in the UK. Developing a vaccine that ...New rail strike disrupts UK train services
London, July 27 More than 40,000 railway workers across Britain are taking a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, bringing another day of widespread delays and cancellations. The action by workers from Network Rail, 14 train companies, and members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), has left only one out ...Air pollution likely to raise risk of dementia
London, July 27 Air pollution is likely to increase the risk of developing dementia, a UK government research group has said, local media reported. The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants has published its findings after reviewing almost 70 studies that analysed how exposure to emissions affect the ...Nawaz Sharif wants early elections
London, July 27 Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif wants early general elections and has discussed with the senior party leadership the option of quitting the government in the Centre, media reports said. Nawaz Sharif has discussed this several times with top leaders of the party including Pakistan Prime ...Liz Truss beats Rishi Sunak in TV debate in poll of electoral college
London, July 26 Liz Truss, the incumbent caretaker Foreign Secretary in deposed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnsons government, beat her rival Rishi Sunak, the Indian-origin former Chancellor, according to a survey of ruling Conservative party members, the electoral college to choose the winner. Forty-seven per cent of respondents to pollster ...Monkeypox: Fear of stigma affecting public health response
London, July 25 Although 98 per cent of monkeypox cases, to date, are seen among gay or bisexual men, a fear of stigmatising the disease has affected the public health response, experts have argued. According to the World Health Organisation, which has declared monkeypox a global health emergency, the outbreak ...
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