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Local leaders like Mayors, Members of Parliament (including Ministers of Health) and other experts call for a One Health approach as a large number of diseases affecting humans have origins in animals, including COVID-19 and Monkeypox. To avert such pandemics, we need a One Health approach to care for human …

New Delhi/Geneva, 14th September 2021. An aircraft carrying around 23 metric tonnes of life-saving medicines and supplies from WHO landed in Kabul. The shipment, which is among the first humanitarian aid to arrive at Kabul airport since operations were disrupted on 15 August, was flown by a Qatar Airways flight …

New Delhi, Aug. 23: Air pollution resulting from the rising levels of particulate matter, nitrous oxides, sulfur oxides, carbon oxides, and other toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is a major concern. Long-term exposure to even a few parts per million of these chemicals takes a toll on health and can …

National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study finds frequency, the intensity of monthly migraines declined among those on a higher fish oil diet. A diet higher in fatty fish helped frequent migraine sufferers reduce their monthly number of headaches and intensity of pain compared to participants on a diet higher …

How are Fatty acids formed? New Delhi, June 30th: Fatty acids are formed when the fat in our diet breaks down during digestion. While many of the body’s organs use glucose as their primary energy source, the heart derives most of its required energy (over 70%) from the oxidation of fatty …

World AIDS Day special article While we have made significant progress since the late 1990s in our fight to end AIDS, but it still remains a major global public health issue. Even today, globally more than 12 million people living with HIV are not on treatment and 1.7 million people …

Pain at the time of testing, rather than the presence of a chronic pain condition, is primarily responsible for changes in the functioning of the brain’s default mode network in patients with fibromyalgia, according to the results of a study recently published in the journal NeuroImage. The study, conducted at …

Cancer news India | Cancer care in India | Health news New Delhi, Sep 01 (India Science Wire): Breast-cancer is the most common cancer in women in India. An estimated one in twenty-eight women is likely to develop breast cancer during her lifetime. In urban areas, one in twenty-two women …

The finding marks a new effort in conserving an ancient dog breed, with potential to inform human vocalization processes Bethesda, (Maryland) Monday, August 31, 2020. In a study published in PNAS, researchers used conservation biology and genomics to discover that the New Guinea singing dog, thought to be extinct for …

New Delhi, 1st May 2020 : Nearly 20 leaders from think tanks, research groups, renewable energy companies, sustainable development organizations, industry associations, and health care services have come together to publish an open letter calling for action, making the case for solarizing all unelectrified sub-centres in rural India, clearly outlining …

'Mee punha yaeen' sparks humour in Maharashtra assembly. Twitterati vent anger over Hyderabad rape-murder. Twitter users commemorate World AIDS Day ....

The public health gains achieved in the past few decades, in the form of control or elimination of infectious diseases and improvements in children’s health, could be wiped out if uncontrolled climate change goes on, warns a new study released on Thursday.

number of deaths caused by tobacco year is expected to touch of 1.5 million by 2020, up from 1.3 million deaths per year in 2017. Among the measures taken to reduce tobacco consumption is the use of large-sized pictorial warnings on tobacco packs.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged to world leaders to protect health from climate change.

Verdicts in some major cases expected before CJI retires in 3 months. US envoy for DPRK to visit Japan, South Korea

Our decision on Jammu & Kashmir is driven by national interest, not politics : Modi One of the biggest decisions taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the first 75 days of his government is undoubtedly the unshackling of Jammu and Kashmir so that there is better integration and mobility …

Top headlines this morning : Achchhe Din, CBSE hikes exam fees for SC/ST by 24 times, general to pay double

The Unnao rape survivor, who was brought to the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi earlier this week, continues to be critical and is on advanced life support systems.