Florence can share advice on mental health, give tips to destress, provide guidance on how to eat right, be more active, and quit tobacco and e-cigarettes. She can also offer information on COVID-19 vaccines and more. Florence 2.0 is now available in English with...
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Singapore faces challenge of finding foreign nurses for aging population
By 2030, one in four Singaporeans will be aged 65 and above, up from one in six today. Singapore is ramping up the nursing homes' bed capacity to 31,000 beds by 2030 from 16,200 now One key challenge for Singapore is to find enough foreign nurses to supplement local...
World Bank says goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 won’t be met
The COVID-19 pandemic marked a historic turning point after decades of poverty reduction, the report said, with 71 million more people living in extreme poverty in 2020. That meant 719 million people - or about 9.3% of the world's population - were living on just...
Dementia: WHO launches blueprint to tackle generational health challenge
Soumya Swaminathan,Chief Scientist, WHO Although dementia is the seventh leading cause of death globally, dementia research accounts for less than 1.5 per cent of total health research output", said WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan "Sadly, we are falling behind...
Govt probes deaths in Gambia linked to India-made cough syrup -sources
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday told reporters the U.N. agency was investigating the deaths from acute kidney injuries with India's drug regulator and New Delhi-based cough syrup manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceuticals New Delhi: The...
Five things to do in your 20s and 30s to reduce your risk of preventable cancer
Cancer Research UK recommends you should only use e-cigarettes to help you quit smoking. The effects of smoking cannabis on cancer risk also aren't well known, though there is some evidence of a small link between cannabis use and an increased risk of testicular...
Global coalition with insurers devise tool to measure Workplace Mental Health
The assessment, known as the Mental Health at Work Index, will score the effectiveness of an organization’s mental-health programs and recommend enhancements. The goal is to “help define what good looks like,” said Christina McCarthy, executive director of One Mind at...
Study finds cerebral palsy can be treatable
In an animal model, the University of Auckland team showed that there was intense local inflammation before the injury developed. Critically, giving the well-established anti-inflammatory drug, Etanercept (also known as 'Enbrel') three days after a period of oxygen...
India:74% rural households receive water on 7 days, 8% once a week,Study
The national study conducted by the Jal Shakti ministry released on Sunday has revealed that about four per cent of households receive water for 5-6 days in a week and 14 per cent receive at least 3-4 days in a week New Delhi: Eight per cent of the rural households in...
Indian General Insurance Industry slips into a record loss of Rs 2,842 crore in FY2022
The general insurance industry, saddled with the huge overall losses of three PSU general insurers, Oriental Insurance, National Insurance Company and United India Insurance, has slipped into net losses of Rs 2,842 crore in FY 2021-22 as against a net profitability...