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Financial strain of disability in India high, insurance aims to bridge gap
According to experts, close to 5 to 7 lakh people in the country...
Anxiety levels rising in rural India: Report
The prevalence of mental health disorders in India has risen...
Monkeypox formidable challenge to world: WHO
While the Covid pandemic is “most certainly not over. We face a formidable convergence of disease, drought, famine and war, fuelled by climate change, inequity and geopolitical rivalry”, Ghebreyesus said Geneva: Even as the world is not over the pandemic yet, it is...
Covid-19: INSACOG confirms presence of BA.4, BA.5 Omicron variants in India
"A-19-year-old female in Tamil Nadu has been found infected with the BA.4 variant of SARS-CoV-2," said INSACOG in a statement, adding that the patient has shown only mild clinical symptoms and has been fully vaccinated and has no travel history New Delhi: The Indian...
Climate change: Threatening access to water and sanitation
And globally, each 1°C increase caused by global warming is projected to result in a 20 per cent reduction in renewable water resources, affecting an additional seven per cent of the population It is estimated that more than one third of the European Union will be...
EXPLAINER-How concerned should we be about monkeypox?
The risk to the general public is low at this time, a U.S. public health official told reporters at a briefing on Friday. Monkeypox is a virus that can cause symptoms including fever, aches and presents with a distinctive bumpy rash Global health officials have...
Efforts to improve air quality show positive trends: Bhupender Yadav
Bhupender Yadav,Union Environment Minister National Clean Air Programme 'is a national-level strategy for a 20 per cent to 30 per cent reduction in PM2.5 and PM10 concentration by 2024, with 2017 as the base year for comparison The programme covers 132 non-attainment...
Govt alerts NCDC,ICMR on rapid jump in monkeypox cases abroad: Report
"Keep a close watch on monkeypox situation abroad. Send samples (to NIV, Pune) only in such cases where people display certain specific symptoms. Not samples of sick passengers," sources told ANI New Delhi: Issuing an alert to the National Centre for Disease Control...
WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases cross 100 in Europe
In what Germany described as the largest outbreak in Europe ever, cases have been reported in at least eight European countries – Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom - as well as the United States, Canada and Australia The...
Covid linked with risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, finds US Study
"Parkinson's is a rare disease that affects 2 per cent of the population above 55 years, so the increase in risk is not necessarily a cause for panic," said Richard Smeyne, Director from the Thomas Jefferson University, US SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the...
Climate change made extreme heatwaves in India 100 times more likely: Study
"With temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius in recent days, it is clear the current heat wave is an extreme weather event affecting communities and livelihoods," Professor Peter Stott, Met Office Science Fellow in Climate Attribution, said in a statement Climate...
Monkeypox infection: first 2022 US case identified in Massachusetts
If you get infected with monkeypox, it usually takes between five to 21 days for the first symptoms to appear. These include a fever, a headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen glands, shivering and exhaustion A case of the rare and potentially dangerous monkeypox...