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Taiwan has become the world's fastest ageing country this decade, overtaking Japan, the US, Britain and other developed nations, according to a report published on Monday by the National Development Council (NDC).

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Stryker Corporation, one of the world's leading medical technology companies instruments division of interventional spine business unit has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its expanded indications of VertaPlex HV for the treatment of sacral insufficiency fractures.

Regular physical activity tends to be a burden for women with diabetes than non-diabetic women, which in turn threatens to make them more sedentary and cause their health to worsen, revealed a new study. The study was published in the Journal BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care.

A senior Indian scientist has claimed that the malaria cure artemisinin, whose discovery fetched a Chinese scientist the Nobel prize in medicine this year, has roots in India.

U.S. health regulators approved Praxbind, a reversal agent made by Germany Private held Boehringer Ingelheim, for use in emergency situations by patients taking the company's widely used Pradaxa blood thinner. Praxbind, an intravenous injection, is the first reversal agent approved specifically for Pradaxa and works by binding to the drug compound to neutralize it.

The health ministry has permitted transfer of blood from one blood bank to another, a step that will help in transferring blood to the hospitals that face scarcity, an official statement said on Monday.

 A new radiation therapy, which has already been in use to treat prostate, brain, and head and neck cancers, also reduces chemotherapy side effects when administered in those afflicted with lung cancer, new research has found.

Excessive use of steroids is increasingly causing a slew of health complications including thinning of skin, high blood sugar level and weaker bones, doctors have warned.

Researchers from the New Jersey-based Rowan University are close to developing a blood test that can accurately detect the presence of Alzheimer's disease.

You should lose weight in case you are overweight in order to avoid cancer for a new study, which analysed data relating to more than five million people, has found links between obesity and cancer.