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Arrhythmias which in other words could be called irregular heartbeats, fluttering, palpitations, and so on, can put you in grave danger. (Photo: Pixabay)

World Heart Day: Proactive health strategies can counter...

In India, five out of every 1,000 individuals aged between 15 and 19 do not report or have their heart disease...

29 Sept 2018 8:51 AM IST

A deficiency in these can have long term negative effects on an infants growth and development.(Photo: Pixabay)

About 8,02,000 infant deaths in India in 2017, lowest in 5 yrs, says...

'Even more heartening is fourfold decline in gender gap in survival of girl child over last 5 years,' UNICEF India said.

18 Sept 2018 9:34 AM IST

A COVID-19 IgG and IgM rapid test cassette is a take home test that can tell a person if they have coronavirus antibodies in their system, thus indicating that they have had the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

DC Edit: The perils of rapid testing in anti-coronavirus fight

The rapid antibody test will only be of utility after a minimum of seven days of onset of symptoms

21 April 2020 7:57 AM IST

US President Donald Trump. (Photo- AP)

US freezes funding for WHO over alleged mismangement of coronavirus...

Funding to be frozen pending a review into the WHO's mismanagement of crisis

15 April 2020 11:16 AM IST

TV grab taken from the World Health Organization website shows WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he delivers a news briefing on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) from the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 30, 2020. (AFP)

Coronavirus 10 times deadlier than Swine Flu, says WHO

WHO chief lamented that some countries are seeing a doubling of cases every three to four days

14 April 2020 6:29 PM IST

File photo of the UN Security Council meeting in New York on February 26, 2020. (AFP)

The world must sue China

The pandemic will hopefully encourage nations to look at reform of the UN system and act against China's irresponsible...

13 April 2020 3:59 PM IST

Messi set to answer questions in tax fraud case

Messi set to answer questions in tax fraud case

Gava: Barcelona star Lionel Messi and his father appeared before a Spanish judge to answer questions in a tax fraud case...

27 Sept 2013 5:30 PM IST

Twenty-three countries currently have national regulations that support HIV self-testing (Photo: AFP)

Self testing for HIV patients promoted by WHO

HIV self-testing involves the use of oral Fluid or finger pricks to determine an individual's personal HIV status in a...

30 Nov 2016 6:23 PM IST

There were 56,000 people who required hospitalisation.

Everything about food poisoning

A WHO survey states that nearly 1 in 10 people fall ill every year from eating contaminated food.

10 July 2017 12:43 AM IST

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Maharashtra tops list of child lepers

We had 99,417 suspected cases and out of these 3,855 cases were tested positive for leprosy, says Dr Sanjeev Kamble.

24 Nov 2016 2:52 AM IST

A tobacco-free world is an opportunity, rather than loss

A tobacco-free world is an opportunity, rather than loss

Though it is true that tobacco farming accounts for a negligible percentage of GDP in the Southeast Asia Region's...

18 Nov 2016 6:18 AM IST

High blood pressure is the leading risk factor for stroke and heart disease, and kills around 7.5 million people worldwide every year. (Representational image)

In 40 years, 100 per cent global rise in number of BP patients

Significantly, the report published in the Lancet found that men had higher blood pressure than women in most world...

16 Nov 2016 3:30 AM IST