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South-East Asia region made "notable progress" in advancing right to healt
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
"Our South-East Asia Region has made notable progress in advancing this right to health. From enhancements in healthcare coverage to declines in maternal and child mortality rates, there are achievements to be celebrated," Wazed said on the eve of World Health Organisation's founding anniver
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Study finds use of habitat for agricultural purposes puts primate in dange
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
According to a study published in Current Biology, frequent trips to oil palm farms are significantly increasing mortality rates among baby southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in the wild.
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Experts at Global Ayurveda Festival in Kerala deliberate on antimicrobial
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
India ranks among the countries with the highest mortality rates due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), experts at the Global Ayurveda Festival said.
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Global Hunger Index is erroneous, shows 'malafide intent': Swadeshi Jagran
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Days after the government said that the Global Hunger Index continues to be "an erroneous measure of hunger with serious methodological issues and shows a malafide intent", Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) also expressed its "deep anguish" at the report and said it is natural to raise questions
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Researchers find how genetics helps explain childhood cancer
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
With an overall survival rate of more than 85% five years after diagnosis, the number of children cancer survivors in the United States is rising. However, survivors may still be more susceptible to a number of illnesses, such as second cancers.
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Genetics helps explain childhood cancer: Study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The number of childhood cancer survivors in the United States is growing, with an overall survival rate of more than 85 per cent five years following diagnosis. Survivors, however, may still be at higher risk of a variety of health issues, including second malignancies.
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Researchers find how people with hepatitis C cure still face risk of death
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Even after being cured of their hepatitis C infection, those who have recovered still have a far higher chance of dying than the general population—between three and fourteen times higher, depending on the severity of their liver illness.
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Study discovers new isopod species in Florida Keys
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A new species of marine cryptofauna has been found in the Florida Keys by an international team of researchers from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the Water Research Group from the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management at the
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If skill, scale of India and US meet, world will see excellent results: UP
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
While speaking at the partnership program in the medical field between Stanford University of the US and SGPGI and JIMS of Gautam Buddha Nagar, CM Yogi said," India's population is four times that of the United States. When it comes to COVID-19 mortality rates, India's rate was half that of
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Expected such mortality rates: South Africa Govt on cheetah deaths at Kuno
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
In a statement issued by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) South Africa said, "The cheetah joined eight of the mammals relocated to India's Kuno National Park from Namibia in September 2022. The two cheetah deaths (one from Namibia and one from South Africa) ob
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Study: Pregnancy-related mortality rising due to COVID among reproductive-
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Following the emergence of the highly contagious Delta and Omicron COVID-19 variants, pregnancy-related mortality rates in the United States increased faster in 2021 than the previous year, according to a new study (UMD).
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Study gives insights into how excess weight, obesity linked with increase
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to new research, being slightly underweight has probably been associated with a higher mortality risk than being overweight or obese, which increases the risk of death by anywhere between 22 per cent and 91 per cent--significantly more than previously believed.
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