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India needs to avoid financialization as it marches towards Viksit Bharat goal, says Nageswaran
V Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor "Unprecedented levels...
Work-life balance, fewer flexible work options pose challenge for women at job front: Report
The report found that 73 per cent of women interviewed said equal...
Health experts decry New Zealand’s scrapping of world-first tobacco ban
The package of measures would have seen bans on selling tobacco to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2009, reduced the amount of nicotine allowed in smoked tobacco products and cut the number of retailers able to sell tobacco by over 90%. They marked some of the toughest...
High-dose Covid treatment less effective in India than Europe: Lancet study
''Our analysis suggests higher dose dexamethasone may have less beneficial effects for patients in India as compared with those in Europe; however, the evidence is weak, and this could represent a chance finding,'' the authors of the study noted A higher dose of the...
Climate change events may soon start affecting your brain functioning: Study
In the new study, teams from the universities of Geneva, New York, Chicago, Washington, Stanford, Exeter in the UK and the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, said that climate change events may change brain structure, function, and overall health, while calling for more...
Workers face double hit from climate change and new technologies, ILO head warns
ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo also highlighted rising inequality, insecurity and vulnerability. He told the leaders that this made work on improving and protecting skills even more important ILO Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, has warned that workers...
Critically ill British girl taken off life support dies – family lawyer
Gregory suffered from a rare, incurable and degenerative mitochondrial disease which meant that her cells did not produce enough energy Indi Gregory, an eight-month-old critically ill baby girl from Britain who was taken off life support on the weekend, has died...
Urban land pattern may hold key to reduce exposure to weather extremes study finds
The researchers said that the findings encourage researchers and practitioners to reconsider how cities are designed and built, in order to be in harmony with their natural surroundings and more resilient to climate risks. Their study is published in the journal...
Study reveals how any activity better for heart than sitting
A sedentary lifestyle and obesity are risk factors for the illness. Cysts between the buttocks can lead to pilonidal illness. It's thought to be an inflammatory response to hair or debris getting lodged in the buttock crease. The disease most commonly affects...
AI can predict, prevent sudden cardiac death
Sudden cardiac death, a public health burden, represents 10 per cent to 20 per cent of overall deaths. Predicting it is difficult, and the usual approaches fail to identify high-risk people, particularly at an individual level," said lead author Xavier Jouven,...
Delhi: Poor air quality affects mental development of children, say health experts
Dr Neeraj Kumar Gupta, Head of Pulmonology Department at Safdarjung Hospital said that due to the increase in the level of PM 2.5, there is a risk of skin and heart-related diseases and it also has a bad effect on the lower respiratory system. Not only this, but...
How 22 minutes of exercise a day could reduce the health risks from sitting too long
The good news is, even short bouts of exercise can have these positive effects. In this study, the 22 minutes wasn’t necessarily done all at once. It was a total of the physical activity someone did in a day, and would have included incidental exercise (activity...