by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 8, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Risk Management
After broad successes in tackling the public health impact of other products like cigarettes, the WHO is increasingly turning its attention to addressing the harms linked to alcohol. It pointed studies that have found the industry increasingly targets women through...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 20, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
“What we are worried about is this year, 2024, we’ve got these big gaps in our immunisation programmes and if we don’t fill them really quickly with the vaccine, measles will just jump into that gap,” the WHO’s Natasha Crowcroft, a Senior...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 2, 2024 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health
In India, the risk of developing cancer before turning 75 was calculated to be 10.6 per cent, while the risk of dying from cancer by the same age was found to be 7.2 per cent. Globally, these risks were 20 per cent and 9.6 per cent, respectively New Delhi: In 2022,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 2, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy
“The initiatives announced today – upgrading existing hospital infrastructure to increase medical colleges, harmonization of maternal and child care implementation, introduction of HPV vaccination for cervical cancer prevention, and the expansion of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 20, 2024 | Facts, Health, Risk Management, Technology
The researchers said that “relatively little” attention has been paid to the effects of video games, including e-sports, on hearing loss, even as headphones, earbuds, and music venues have been acknowledged as sources of potentially unsafe sound levels New...
