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- SC refuses to entertain PIL raising concerns over HPV vaccination campaignThe top court orally said that the PIL was filed with an ulterior motive and lacked bonafide
- Sheikh Hasina's daughter resigns as WHO regional director amid fraud allegationsSaima Wazed, in her resignation letter, said she has lost all trust and confidence in the WHO leadership; she was placed on unpaid administrative leave late last year
- India has to act on its ‘sugar’ problemWhen the U.K. introduced its soft drinks industry levy, sugar consumption fell. Manufacturers reformulated their drinks to slip below the tax threshold rather than raise prices
- When a punctuation mark gives a life lessonProject Semicolon aims to highlight resilence in mental health awareness using a punctuation mark
- Racing against the clock: why one in three donated corneas is wastedBetter storage chemistry, faster hospital protocols, and a database that shows, in real time, exactly which cornea is about to run out of time, who needs it and where, can go a long way towards addressing the under-utilisation of donated corneas
- How scientists are using menstrual blood to treat osteoarthritisMuch like saliva or blood plasma, menstrual fluid is rich with biological information. It is packed with immune cells, endometrial tissue, proteins, and genetic fragments. Scientists are now digging into these biomarkers hoping to find ways to detect diseases early, and thus drop the use of invasive
- A tale of two medicines: why India should replace ‘general medicine’ with ‘internal medicine’The term ‘general’ is misleading and can be confusing for patients who may think an internist is the same as a general or family medicine practitioner. It is also out of sync with international nomenclature. It is high time India modifies this terminology to the more widely recognised and accepted,
- Paying attention to our packaged food
- Tamil Nadu government announces multi-pronged mission to reduce salt intake among peopleThe WHO recommends that a person should consume less than five grams of salt a day. However, scientific studies indicate that the people of Tamil Nadu consume an average of 7 to 8 grams of salt per day, says Health Minister
- Project Khushi launched to improve health and well-being of Bengaluru police personnelThe programme will initially be implemented in the Electronics City police division
- Sapiens Health Foundation welcomes salt reduction campaignThe Foundation’s salt-reduction campaign began in 2010 with a walkathon at Marina Beach, followed by similar events in Tiruchi and Puducherry
- Walkathon held to raise awareness on eye donationThe event sought to encourage people to pledge their eyes and help address corneal blindness through eye donation and transplantation
- WHO report links smoking to infertility, says quitting can make meaningful differenceA study shows that tobacco smoking could lead to 40% higher risk of infertility in women, and lead to semen abnormalities and sexual dysfunction in men
- Is there a right time to have dinner? Doctors explainEarlier may be better, but is there really an ideal time for dinner?
- Post-traumatic mental condition may contribute to heart risk, study findsA wide range of mental health conditions were considered as possible cardiovascular predictors, and machine learning was used to identify the 15 most important mental health disorder predictors of heart and brain outcomes
- Deaths due to passive smoking in India up 50 pc compared to 1990: Lancet studyPassive smoking is avoidable if smokers take steps to prevent exposing others to tobacco smoke
- All you need to know about: Huntington’s diseaseThe symptoms of Huntington’s disease vary from person to person and generally become more severe as the disease progresses
- Not all types of dementia cause memory loss: what happens when it strikes earlyBehaviour and personality changes, rather than memory loss, can be among the first signs of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which commonly affects people between 45 and 65
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