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Do not relax anti-pollution GRAP-4 curbs in Delhi without court’s nod: SC
A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih pointed...
COP29: Climate change harming young people’s mental health
Recent study shows young people are more likely to present at the...
UK is failing to address menopausal discrimination in the workforce
The report, published in July last year, was carried out to think of solutions to help women who have struggled to manage menopausal symptoms at work. One in 10 women who worked during the menopause left a job due to their symptoms, which range from brain fog and loss...
China says peak COVID infections exceeded 7 million daily, deaths more than 4,000 daily
However,there is great skepticism about the COVID data released by China and the World Health Organization (WHO) recently accused it of underplaying the seriousness of the pandemic by concealing the true nature of the situation in the country, the Hong Kong Post...
Research suggests woman’s risk of pregnancy loss linked to certain job hazards
Manufacturing jobs and health/social work were associated with higher risks of early abortive outcomes compared with financial and insurance jobs. In an analysis of 2010-2019 information on more than 1.8 million employed and non-employed pregnant women in South Korea,...
Altered speech may be the first sign of Parkinson’s disease: Research
According to Maskeliunas, a researcher at KTU's Department of Multimedia Engineering, as motor activity decreases, so does the function of the vocal cords, diaphragm, and lungs: "Changes in speech often occur even earlier than motor function disorders, which is why...
India’s Retail Health Insurance profitable, to touch $25 billion in next 5 years: Avendus Capital Study
Anshul Agarwal, managing director and Co-head, Consumer, Financial Institutions Group (FIG) & Business Services, Avendus Capital said, “Unique characteristics of Retail Health Insurance such as high persistency of 90%, pricing power, relatively low loss ratio and...
First Covid, now layoffs: Indian professionals undergo tremendous stress, anxiety
Saumya Mudgal, Senior Consultant, Psychiatry, Max Hospital in Gurugram said there has been a drastic increase in the number of patients coming from MNCs. "These patients are usually presented with the issues of panic anxiety and panic disorder with agoraphobia and...
Five billion people globally remain unprotected from harmful trans fat: WHO
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,Director-General,WHO. Industrially produced trans fat (also called industrially produced trans-fatty acids) is commonly found in packaged foods, baked goods, cooking oils and spreads. Trans fat intake is responsible for up to 500 000...
Women show higher risk of developing cancer in both breast: Research
Study led by the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study's findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, will help personalise approaches to breast cancer screening and risk factors, according to the study's authors. Women who have cancer in one...
Considering downgrading Covid-19 to same category as seasonal influenza: Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida
Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister,Japan Currently, Covid is given the second rank which is equal to tuberculosis and avian influenza. Further, the officials plan to put it at the fifth rank, equaling to seasonal influenza, CNN reported quoting Japan's Health Ministry. "In...
Budget- 2023-24: “Cut GST rate from 18% to 5% on health insurance premiums”
It is expected that the government in the upcoming budget comes up with a series of measures to boost this sector, thus considering 5% GST tax slab on health insurance premium to make it more affordable for the people living in the middle-income group to get access to...