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World News
WHO has awarded Union Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, for efforts in tobacco control
WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Harsh Vardhan’s leadership was instrumental in the 2019 national legislation to ban E-cigarettes and heated toba
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Health
Use of e-cigarettes plus tobacco cigarettes linked to increased risk of respiratory symptoms
“People who vape e-cigarettes in an effort to stop smoking tobacco cigarettes should be cautioned against using both New research revealed that respirato
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Health
World Cancer Day: Global Cancer Crisis Demands Urgent Action to Address Soaring Burden
On World Cancer Day, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), released the latest estim
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Opinion
White man’s burden and diamond’s curse: How South Africa is the breathing embodiment of Europe’s ‘civilisational blunders’?
“A diamond is forever.” One of the world’s largest diamond mining companies, ‘De Beers,’ uses this quote often to lure its custome
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Health
The Growing Problem: Women’s Cancer Incidence Over the Past Ten Years
Cancer has been a major global health concern, and over the past ten years, its effects on women have been especially notable. Cancer cases are increasing, espe
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Press Releases
On the occasion of World Health Day, Union Health Ministry organises a Walkathon event in New Delhi
On the occasion of World Health Day, the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare organised a walkathon event in New Delhi
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Health
AI, vaccines, liquid biopsies seen as reshaping cancer care
India’s biggest challenge will be how to make it affordable and accessible for millions of its people when technologies continue to revolutionize cancer care, s
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Technology
Low-cost heating device does away with power or other fuel; works on water
Indian scientists have developed a low-cost Powerless Heating System that can be activated with water to heat food
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Education
Jaw bone cancer, trauma-hit patients could find new hope in novel Nanotex Bone
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Nanotex Bone graft gets Central Drugs Standard Control Organization nod for pilot clinical trial.
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India News
Pan Masala and its horrific effects –Why States like MP, UP and Maharashtra continues to let the sale of Pan Masala?
During the times of lockdown when all economic activities were halted, Pan Masala makers both original and duplicate made a killing and sold the pouches at a pr
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Health
WHO revises air pollution guidelines; Indian standards alarming
Air pollution levels across India stay beyond WHO guidelines. Among the different aspects important for healthy living, clean air is the most significant. The W
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Finance
India’s July WPI inflation records second straight fall to 11.16%
New Delhi: As per the WPI data released by the government, India’s wholesale price inflation or WPI eases 0.25% on year in July due to a low rise in food and fu
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Politics
Govt’s indiscriminate tax collection making everything expensive: Rahul Gandhi
The Congress leader said the rising prices due to brazen tax collection not only made the consumers upset but the inflation was also not handing more income to
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Health
Alcohol consumption linked to more than 740,000 new cancer cases in 2020: Study finds
Alcohol consumption has been shown to cause DNA damage through increased production of harmful chemicals in the body Alcohol is estimated to have caused more th
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India News
Inflation: ‘Acche din’ burden on the country, says Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi said that the good days that the PM Modi promised seem to be a burden for the country Congress leader and Member of Parliament, Rahul Gandhi on Fri
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Lifestyle
Study claims daily e-cigarette use can help quit smoking
e-cigarettes are a more effective aid for quitting smoking than nicotine replacement therapy and prescribed medication A new study published by King’s Col
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World News
16-year-old accidentally detonates explosive in a Michigan High School
An explosion took place at Newaygo High School in west-central Michigan at 8:52 a.m. inside the classroom A Michigan high school student on Monday morning (loca
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