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Climate change to have severe impact on health emergency services globally: Study
Across all the focus group responses, the top three major risks...
More health packages focused on elderly care likely to be added to AB-PMJAY
"The committee which decides on health-benefit packages under the...
Heat-related deaths in India increased by 55% from 2000-2004 to 2017-2021
Improvements in air quality will help to prevent deaths. In 2020, over 330,000 people died in India due to exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel combustion New Delhi: Warning that health is at the mercy of fossil fuels, from 2000-2004 to 2017-2021...
Unilever recalls aerosol dry shampoos over cancer risk
The move once again raises questions about the safety of aerosols in personal-care products. In the past year and a half, a number of aerosol sunscreens have been pulled from shelves, such as Johnson & Johnson’s Neutrogena, Edgewell Personal Care Co.’s Banana Boat...
Uganda reports worrisome increase in Ebola cases in capital
There is no proven vaccine for the Sudan strain of Ebola that's circulating in Uganda. Ugandan officials by Thursday had documented more than 1,800 Ebola contacts, 747 of whom had completed 21 days of monitoring for possible signs of the disease that manifests as a...
Fitbit sued in Australia for misleading consumers on faulty devices
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said between May 2020 and February 2022, Fitbit claimed consumers will not be entitled to a refund unless they returned a faulty product within 45 days of purchase or shipment, which is in not in accordance...
TB passes COVID-19 as top infectious killer
That compares to 1,449 people a day dying due to COVID-19, calculated from the 40,578 deaths reported in the past 28 days on the Johns Hopkins University dashboard Following gargantuan global efforts against COVID-19, tuberculosis (TB) is once again the world's...
Strict parenting can genetically lead children to depression: Study
Dr Evelien Van Assche said: "We discovered that perceived harsh parenting, with physical punishment and psychological manipulation, can introduce an additional set of instructions on how a gene is read to become hard-wired into DNA. We have some indications that these...
Researchers give new insights into genetic causes of high cholesterol
According to the World Health Organization, high cholesterol is a leading contributor to disease burden in nations of all income levels, is a risk factor for heart disease and stroke, and is thought to be responsible for 2.6 million deaths annually globally A new...
Study finds number of hours worked in stressful jobs led to risk of depression
"This analysis suggests strongly that reducing the average number of work hours would make a difference in the degree to which interns' depressive symptoms increase over time, and reduce the number who develop diagnosable depression," says Amy Bohnert, PhD, the...
XBB subvariant of Omicron can cause another wave of infections in some countries: Swaminathan
"Many people just think that it is just like the flu or any other respiratory infection, but more and more data is coming out on how COVID is affecting all organ systems and not just the respiratory route. It also affects the cardiovascular system and the inflammatory...
Tata AIA Life ties up with Medix to offer health services to its policyholders
Tata AIA life has tied-up with Medix to offer healthcare advice to Tata AIA policy holders. Medix has a team of 300 in-house physicians, and a global quality accredited network of over 4,500 world-leading and independent medical specialists. A study by Harvard...