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Japanese Patent Office Honors Manga Arabia

Dr. Issam Bukhari, General Director and Editor-in-Chief of Manga Arabia, receives the honor. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Dr. Issam Bukhari, General Director and Editor-in-Chief of Manga Arabia, receives the honor. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Japanese Patent Office Honors Manga Arabia

Dr. Issam Bukhari, General Director and Editor-in-Chief of Manga Arabia, receives the honor. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Dr. Issam Bukhari, General Director and Editor-in-Chief of Manga Arabia, receives the honor. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Manga Arabia Company, affiliated with the Saudi Research and Media Group, was honored by the Japanese Patent Office for participating in a digital awareness campaign to combat electronic piracy and protect intellectual property (IP).
The campaign was organized by the patent office and the International Intellectual Property Protection Forum (IIPPF), managed by the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO).
Manga Arabia participated in the campaign by translating visual materials into Arabic and sharing them on its digital platforms.
The company has a significant online presence in the Middle East, with over 1.2 billion appearances on various digital platforms and over 7.5 million application downloads across 190 countries. The extensive reach positioned Manga Arabia as an influential asset for reaching and educating young people.
Manga Arabia’s editor-in-chief, Issam Bukhari, emphasized the company’s commitment to supporting anti-piracy measures and promoting IP values. He highlighted the company’s goal of creating a safe and reliable environment for its products to inspire and empower imagination in the Arab world.

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Ozempic Hailed as 'Fountain of Youth' that Slows Aging

The is available under the brand names Wegovy and Ozempic (Photo by Reuters)
The is available under the brand names Wegovy and Ozempic (Photo by Reuters)
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Ozempic Hailed as 'Fountain of Youth' that Slows Aging

The is available under the brand names Wegovy and Ozempic (Photo by Reuters)
The is available under the brand names Wegovy and Ozempic (Photo by Reuters)

The anti-obesity drug Ozempic could slow down ageing and has “far-reaching benefits” beyond what was imagined, researchers have suggested.

Multiple studies have found semaglutide (available under the brand names Wegovy and Ozempic) reduced the risk of death in people who were obese or overweight and had cardiovascular disease without diabetes, The Independent reported.

Responding to research published in JACC, the flagship journal of the American College of Cardiology, Professor Harlan M Krumholz from the Yale School of Medicine, said: “Semaglutide, perhaps by improving cardiometabolic health, has far-reaching benefits beyond what we initially imagined.”

He added: “These ground-breaking medications are poised to revolutionise cardiovascular care and could dramatically enhance cardiovascular health.”

Multiple reports also quoted Professor Krumholz saying: “Is it a fountain of youth?”

He said: “I would say if you’re improving someone’s cardiometabolic health substantially, then you are putting them in a position to live longer and better.

“It’s not just avoiding heart attacks. These are health promoters. It wouldn’t surprise me that improving people’s health this way actually slows down the ageing process.”

The studies, presented at the European Society of Cardiology Conference 2024 in London, were produced from the Select trial which studied 17,604 people aged 45 or older who were overweight or obese and had established cardiovascular disease but not diabetes.

They received 2.4 mg of semaglutide or a placebo and were tracked for more than three years.

A total of 833 participants died during the study with 5 percent of the deaths were related to cardiovascular causes and 42 per cent from others.

Infection was the most common cause death beyond cardiovascular, but it occurred at a lower rate in the semaglutide group than the placebo group.

People using the weight-loss drug were just as likely to catch Covid-19, but they were less likely to die from it – 2.6 percent dying among those on semaglutide versus 3.1 per cent on the placebo.

Researchers found women experienced fewer major adverse cardiovascular events, but semaglutide “consistently reduced the risk” of adverse cardiovascular outcomes regardless of sex.

Dr Benjamin Scirica, lead author of one of the studies and a professor of cardiovascular medicine at Harvard Medical School, said: “The robust reduction in non-cardiovascular death, and particularly infections deaths, was surprising and perhaps only detectable because of the Covid-19-related surge in non-cardiovascular deaths.

“These findings reinforce that overweight and obesity increases the risk of death due to many etiologies, which can be modified with potent incretin-based therapies like semaglutide.”

Dr Jeremy Samuel Faust, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, praised the researchers for adapting the study to look at Covid-19 when the pandemic started.

He said the findings that the weight-loss drug to reduce Covid-19 mortality rates were “akin to a vaccine against the indirect effects of a pathogen.”