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Viraj Profiles Conducts Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan Awareness Sessions Acros
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 9: As part of the national initiative and visionary campaign led by Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, Viraj Profiles Pvt. Ltd., in partnership with the Brahma Kumaris, organised Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan awareness sessions across all its plant
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NGT Upholds Safety of Asbestos-Cement Roofing: No Evidence of Public Healt
Updated : 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 10: In a major development for India's building materials sector, the NGT after reviewing submissions and the findings of the Expert Committee has declined to impose a blanket ban on asbestos-cement roofing sheets in schools and other education institutions, recog
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Gaza death toll tops 60,000 amid rising famine, malnutrition
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, as famine worsens and aid remains restricted. Al Jazeera reports rising malnutrition, especially among children, with severe health impacts. Despite brief pauses in fighting, Israeli attacks continue, deepening the humanit
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Free Balochistan Movement to stage protests across UK and Europe on May 28
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The demonstrations aim to demand international recognition of the lasting human, environmental, and health impacts of the nuclear detonations carried out in 1998 in the Chagai district.
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We are not serious about air pollution, need accelerated phasing out of ol
Updated : 10 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Addressing the 27th Annual National Conference of the Indian Association for Bronchology in the capital, VP Dhankhar highlighted the grave health impacts of polluted air, especially on vulnerable groups, and urged a shift toward sustainable living, technological integration in healthcare,
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"Indians justifiably outraged by poor air quality": American entrepreneur
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
After leaving a podcast with Zerodha Co-founder Nikhil Kamath early citing bad air quality, American entrepreneur and venture capitalist Bryan Johnson raised concerns over the health impacts of air pollution in India and said that "Indians are justifiably outraged by the poor air quality
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Swasti Launches a Short Film to Highlight the Health Impacts of Climate Ch
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], November 18: To shed light on a critical aspect of climate change: its devastating impact on human health, Swasti, The Health Catalyst, a leading public health platform has launched a powerful new short film, "Under the Indian Sky: Tales of Climate and Health -
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Swasti and the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) L
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 5: In the face of growing health challenges posed by climate change including rising heat-related illnesses, vector-borne and waterborne diseases and mental health issues, Swasti, The Health Catalyst, and the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Edu
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New research method helps to determine health impacts of heat, air quality
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
They discovered that even moderate temperature increases, for example, night-time temperatures starting at 18.4 degrees Celsius, can lead to increased hospital visits and death for older adults and those with cardiorespiratory conditions.
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#BeatPlasticPollution - Reducing Plastic Use with Disclosures
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 5: CDP, a global not-for-profit based in London and a platform that runs the largest disclosure platform for over 20,000 companies has in 2023 introduced a module to generate data of plastic use by businesses. The objective of doing so is to engage India Inc in asses
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Study reveals that wireless earphones work as inexpensive hearing aids
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Some commercial earbuds can perform as well as hearing aids. The result, presented on November 15 in the journal iScience, could help a large proportion of people with hearing loss access more affordable sound amplification devices.
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New tool discovered for estimating people's total exposure to potentially
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A novel metric that estimates our "burden," or cumulative exposure, to a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that we encounter in everyday life with potentially adverse health impacts, has been created by a team of researchers at Mount Sinai.
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