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Over 5 million Chinese students, adolescents suffer from spinal deformitie
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 28 (ANI): Over 5 million primary and high school students in China suffer from Spinal deformities, with an annual increase in cases of about 300,000, a report said citing experts who suggested that Scoliosis has become the third most harmful disease for Chinese child
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ISDM, Dasra and Governance Counts conclude first cohort of women on boards
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 21 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) celebrated the completion of the founding cohort of its Women on Boards (WOB) program by organising the closing ceremony at its campus in Noida on June 18, 2022. The event was attended by the partic
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Study finds brain differences in pain modulation in people with self-injur
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Solna [Sweden], June 13 (ANI): Researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute believe they have discovered why people with self-injury behaviour experience less pain than others. The key appears to be a more effective pain-modulation system, a discovery which is a breakthrough that can aid tho
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Almost one-third adolescents don't feel safe at school, says study
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 6 (ANI): A large international study found that on average 31.4 per cent of adolescents reported feeling unsafe at school in 13 European and Asian countries.
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Student wrapped in life-sized condom for sex-education lesson!
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): While sex-education classes for adolescents are almost always a giggle-fest, for students at one Mexican school it was a laugh riot after a teacher during one such class demonstrated an innovative and fun technique of putting on a condom.
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Over 1 million youth started smoking daily, most used JULL e-cigarettes: U
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
San Diego (California) [US] May 30 (ANI): Nearly 2,300 adolescents and young adults became new tobacco smokers in the US over the period of 2017-2019 with the total number of users under 21 years of age vaping (using e-cigarettes) rising to over 1 million by 2019, accordingly to new publishe
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A toxic triple combination of conflict, weather extremes and economic impa
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 24 (ANI/PNN): The world is seeing unprecedented levels of humanitarian crises. Conflict, weather extremes and the economic impact of COVID-19 are toxic triple combinations that threaten to undo decades of progress in health and social development for the world's poores
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Children with same-sex parents as well adjusted as those with different-se
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Cologne [Germany], May 23 (ANI): Children and adolescents who have same-sex parents are just as well adjusted as those who have different-sex parents, according to a study conducted by Dr. Mirjam Fischer and colleagues at the University of Cologne's Institute of Sociology and Social Psycholo
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USAID's MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Project Accelerates Effort to Expand
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Recently the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project, organized a collaborative virtual event "Expanding Coverage of COVID-19 vaccination for 12-
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Study: Autism, ADHD, school absence are risk factors for self-harm
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 2 (ANI): A recent research led by King's College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has analysed factors associated with self-harm in over 111,000 adolescents aged 11-17 years old.
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India vaccinates over 60 pc beneficiaries between 12-14 age group with 1st
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): Over 60 per cent of adolescents between the 12-14 age group of the country have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday.
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Urgent action needed to protect vulnerable women, children and adolescents
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] April 27 (ANI/PNN): Women, children and adolescents, and the health and aid workers who provide their care and support, are facing growing challenges and life-threatening risks in these times of escalating conflict and humanitarian crises worldwide, according to a commentar
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