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FSSAI reclassifies packaged drinking water, mineral water as high-risk food
The move, effective immediately following an order dated November...
No conclusive data to establish direct correlation of disease exclusively due to air pollution: Govt
Air pollution is one of the aggravating factors for respiratory...
India may become the sixth largest insurance market in the world by 2032: Swiss Re Report
India will become the sixth largest insurance market in the world in terms of premium volume by 2032, up from 10th largest in 2021 Life insurance profitability in India to benefit from rising interest rates. Pandemic-related claims continued to impact life insurers’...
Support from others in stressful times can ease impact of genetic depression risk: Study
Compared to individuals in the study who had low depression polygenic risk scores, the doctors and widows with higher risk scores had higher rates of depression after they lost social support, but also had lower rates of depression when they gained social support...
Study suggests strong social connections help to improve health
The study also found that having strong bonds with both close social circles and extended groups is associated with better mental health and wellbeing. Importantly, the greater number of groups people had strong bonds with, the higher their engagement in health...
India continuously striving to provide high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to everyone: Mandaviya
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya India's experience has reinforced the fact that capacity building of healthcare workers at various levels of governance, coupled with harnessing digital technology, is the way forward. With more than 1.3 million (13 lakh)...
Study: Gardening can help lower cancer risk, improve mental health
Funded by the American Cancer Society, the first-ever, randomized, controlled trial of community gardening found that those who started gardening ate more fiber and got more physical activity--two known ways to reduce the risk of cancer and chronic diseases. They also...
Initiative to deal with medical emergencies in far-flung Andaman and Nicobar island
The 'Swasthya-Doot' project, a community based volunteer programme, was taken up after Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Great Nicobar, Nitin Shakya, was woken up by a phone call in the early hours in October last year. The Nicobar district administration has launched...
How anti-vaccine misinformation hampers the conversation about genuine vaccine injuries
In very rare cases though, vaccines can be linked to serious injuries and even death. Vaccine injuries (also often called adverse events) are a difficult area in which to carry out research or advocacy, partly because anti-vaccine communities persistently muddy the...
High arsenic concentration in groundwater of 18 districts in Bihar: Study
Now, arsenic as a possible risk factor for gallbladder cancer has been found in the study. Public health intervention in the form of removing arsenic from drinking water is the need of the hour in the endemic regions of Bihar and Assam. Tackling arsenic pollution may...
Covid cases in China touch 900 million,60,000 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals
A top Chinese epidemiologist has also warned that cases will surge in rural China over the lunar new year The peak of China's Covid wave is expected to last two to three months, added Zeng Guang, ex-head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control Some 900 million...
U.S. FDA, CDC see early signal of Pfizer bivalent COVID shot’s link to stroke in people 65 and older
Investigation of the signal raised a question of whether people 65 and older who received the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent shot were more likely to have an ischemic stroke, a loss of blood flow in the brain, in the 21 days following vaccination compared with days 22-44...