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Health

Türkiye to require national ID number for cigarette sales, health minister says
Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu said cigarette sales in Türkiye will require a national ID number, with a bill to be submitted to Parliament within a few weeks.
WHO says 170 million children and adolescents are living with obesity
The World Health Organization said that 170 million children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 were living with obesity in 2024. According to the report, obesity prevalence in this age group quadrupled from 2% to 8% between 1990 and 2024.
ASELSAN’s domestic defibrillator has helped more than 60 people
The Turkish defense firm’s medical devices are in use, with more than 35,000 mobile X-ray scans and 40 heart-lung machine surgeries.
2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to optogenetics pioneers Deisseroth, Hegemann and Nagel
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth of the United States and Germany’s Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
Kazakhstan adds border health checks after Irkutsk lab worker’s suspected plague death
Kazakhstan introduced sanitary and quarantine checks at its border crossings after a 28-year-old technician at Russia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died following a diagnosis of pneumonia of unknown origin.
AI-developed brain cancer molecule wins first place at TEKNOFEST
The five-member Cortera Team, made up of students from Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Yıldız Technical University and Koç University, won the Oncology 3T Competition at TEKNOFEST at Şanlıurfa GAP Airport with its brain cancer project. The artificial intelligence-supported project aims to deliver drug combinations targeting glioblastoma through nanoparticles and overcome the blood-brain barrier.
TEKNOFEST serves visitors 100 kilograms of Kahramanmaraş ice cream
Visitors at TEKNOFEST in southeastern Türkiye were served 100 kilograms of Kahramanmaraş ice cream. The Kahramanmaraş Metropolitan Municipality stand attracted considerable interest at the festival held at Şanlıurfa GAP Airport, while ice cream makers’ demonstrations provided visitors with enjoyable moments.
Türkiye opens 2,000-bed Şanlıurfa City Hospital
The hospital, with about 500,000 square meters of indoor space and 546 intensive care beds, is being opened by President Erdoğan.
Azerbaijani students develop an AI brain tumor project at TEKNOFEST
The seven-member Azerbaijani Uni Code team presented its project at TEKNOFEST Southeast in Şanlıurfa, aiming to facilitate the analysis of brain tumors using artificial intelligence. The team is working with more than 13,000 magnetic resonance imaging sequences from over 200 patients and aims to turn the project into a model that could be used in clinics in the future.
Ebola death toll in DR Congo rises to 3,982
Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reached 8,224, with a fatality rate of 48.4 percent; the Bundibugyo strain has no approved treatment or vaccine.

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