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Zambia to start administering oral antiviral COVID-19 pills
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Lusaka [Zambia], July 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Zambia will soon start administering Paxlovid, an oral antiviral pill, to people at risk of developing severe COVID-19 disease, its health ministry said on Friday.
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Canadian Firm Clean Seed and Chandigarh University come to rescue of India
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], July 8 (ANI/PR Newswire): Among the various issues being faced by India's Agriculture sector, stubble burning and soil depletion due to intensive cultivation and over-mining of nutrients by crops are the most serious ones. Far from a mere nuisance, pollution from
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Childhood obesity occurring at greater frequency, younger ages: Study
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): Despite numerous public health initiatives to encourage healthy behaviours and improve living conditions the rates of new cases of obesity in elementary school are higher and are occurring earlier in childhood than they were even a decade earlier, according to
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Top US General, Chinese counterpart discuss ways to improve crisis communi
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley spoke with his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng, on Thursday to discuss ways to improve crisis communications and reduce strategic risk, the Pentagon said.
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Sri Lanka's crisis should be warning to us all: UNDP
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New York [US], July 8 (ANI): With the war in Ukraine dragging on, countries already under pressure from the knock-off effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk seeing the same economic crisis as Sri Lanka, the UN said on Thursday as it advised the international community to introduce radical fin
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Study finds poor physical and mental health in older adults linked to chil
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], July 7 (ANI): According to a recently published study by University of Toronto researchers, older persons who experienced physical abuse as children were much more likely to experience chronic pain and chronic physical illnesses in later life. In comparison to those who did
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Federal Soft Systems strengthens senior leadership with appointment of Ken
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI/SRV): Federal Soft Systems Inc. is extremely delighted and thrilled to welcome and onboard Kenny Singh as Senior Vice President - Client Relationship (North America) to support the organization's expansion and future growth in both US and Canada Geo.
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Zurich Insurance Germany selects Cognizant as strategic IT partner to tran
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Teaneck [New Jersey], July 7 (ANI/PRNewswire): Cognizant today announced that it has extended its relationship with Zurich Beteiligungs-AG, the German subsidiary of global insurance leader Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich), to help Zurich Germany deliver more digital services offerings to i
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Death of a family member may increase heart failure mortality risk
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 7 (ANI): Heart failure patients experiencing grief or in mourning following the loss of a close family member are at an increased risk of death, particularly during the first week following the family member's death, according to a new study.
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China: Xian under lockdown after city reports first cases of new Omicron s
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 6 (ANI): China on Wednesday enforced a lockdown in Xian, home to 13 million people after the city reported the first cases of a new Omicron subvariant.
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AU says COVID-19 poses most formidable risk to smooth operationalization o
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], July 5 (ANI/Xinhua): The African Union (AU) on Tuesday said the advent of COVID-19 has posed the most formidable risk to the smooth operationalization of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement.
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Neighborhood redlining may increase risk of heart diseases, know more here
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 5 (ANI): According to a group of researchers, redlining or the practice of illegal discrimination by a mortgage lender who denies handing out loans, is linked with heart disease and increases risk factors after they were banned. Health disparities have been linked to se
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