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Insurance Awareness Day: Industry Leaders Lay Out Action Plans
The journey towards widespread insurance coverage begins with...
Tackling Air Turbulence: Cabin Crew’s new lessons
"While variations in climate can cause variations in Clear Air...
India to be one of world’s fastest growing economies over next decade
Overall, India is expected to continue to be one of the world's fastest growing economies over the next decade. This will make India one of the most important long-term growth markets for multinationals in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing industries...
Scientists detail recommendations to address male infertility, say it is increasing worldwide
“For most infertile men, the cause of their infertility is unknown. When it is known, few targeted treatments exist. Globally, the huge economic and social burdens of male infertility are not well appreciated. The cost of treatments and the impacts of infertility on...
Climate change may make India and the Indus Valley too hot for up to 2.2 billion: Study
Results of the study indicate that if global temperatures increase by 2 C above pre-industrial levels, the 2.2 billion residents of Pakistan and India’s Indus River Valley, the one billion people living in eastern China and the 800 million residents of sub-Saharan...
Stroke could cause nearly 10 million deaths annually by 2050: Lancet study
The report recommended establishing cost-effective surveillance systems for precise epidemiological stroke data to guide prevention and treatment Strokes, a highly preventable and treatable condition, could lead to nearly 10 million deaths annually by 2050, primarily...
California Governor signs bill expanding conservatorship law
The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless. Local government said their hands are tied if a person refuses to receive help under existing...
INSIGHT-Down syndrome families’ fight for access to Alzheimer’s trials, treatments
Down syndrome affects 400,000 people in the United States and more than 6 million globally. When Lianor da Cunha Hillerstrom of Lexington, Massachusetts, learned her now 9-year-old son Oskar had Down syndrome, she was concerned but not panicked. As a child, Lianor...
80 per cent Indians with mental health issues don’t seek treatment, say doctors
'The treatment cost is quite high in the private sector while at government setups there is a lot of rush and people do not want to go through that inconvenience,'' said Asthana who was the chief coordinator of the mental health festival organised recently by Mental...
Global coal industry expected to layoff over 4 lakh miners by 2035: Report
Climate commitments to phase out coal power generation could accelerate ongoing trends in coal-mining job losses, even as employment in renewable energy and construction now exceeds 50 per cent of total energy employment Dorothy Mei, project manager for the Global...
South Asia’s all-female health workers fight for recognition
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded ASHA workers - who are behind a series of high-profile health campaigns, including India’s COVID-19 response and vaccination drive - last year after the World Health Organization gave them an award for their “outstanding...
Vivek Wadhwa’s new venture aims to use breath to detect cancer
Vivek Wadhwa, entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa learned that breath may include compounds related to lung cancer, breast cancer and others. “I never thought that there was so much information in breath,” he wrote in an update to a handful of supporters in September. If the...