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WHO backs GLP-1 treatments to tackle obesity epidemicThe World Health Organization has unveiled new recommendations indicating that revolutionary weight-loss drugs could play a vital role in a...- WHO pushes for 50% price rise through taxes on sugar, alcohol and tobaccoThe World Health Organization urges nations to increase taxes on sugary drinks, alcohol, and tobacco by 50% by 2035. This initiative, dubbe...
- Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonousChina's political turmoil obstructs COVID-19 origin search, fueling global suspicions. Secrecy surrounds virus origins, with conflicting na...
- After COVID, WHO defines disease spread 'through air'WHO and experts define disease spread through the air, emphasizing ventilation importance and evidence of airborne spread, crucial for prev...
- India played key role in drugs manufacturing, vaccine development during Covid pandemic: WHO chief scientistDr Farrar, who is attending the third G20 Health Working Group meeting here, praised India for the way it has hosted the G20 presidency des...
- As officials ease restrictions, China faces new pandemic risksThe vaccination gaps in China's older population are all the more glaring because the country has achieved relatively strong coverage overa...
- India right example for ensuring vaccine equity, stepping up manufacturing: Leaders at WEFIndia also assured the world that it was determined to become the global vaccine capital and it is now in a position to ensure adequate sup...
- Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust pledge $150 mn each for better pandemic responseThe pledges come ahead of a March 8 fundraising event sponsored by the UK govt.
- Covid origins mirror SARS’s genesis in animals, study findsThe paper was released Wednesday ahead of peer review, and is being prepared for submission to a journal for publication, one of the author...
- Explainer: How worrying is the variant first seen in India?How transmissible is the variant? We don't entirely know. But according to the minutes of an expert group advising the government last week...
- View: Pandemics are caused by germs but spread by people who are in denialThe 1918 ‘Spanish’ flu had a mild first wave but returned later in the year to cause havoc. In India there were an estimated 12 to 20 milli...
- Covid vaccine rollout urgent as new strains take holdThe European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Wednesday approved the US-made Moderna vaccine, having already given a green light December 27 to on...
- Scientists say UK strain unlikely to affect efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, warn against more mutationsMore than 40 countries, including India, have banned travel to and from the UK, a move several scientists said was necessary in view of the...
- Global coronavirus cases surpass 6 million, death toll tops 370,000In Brazil -- the epicenter of South America's outbreak with nearly 500,000 confirmed cases -- disagreement among its leaders over lockdown ...
- Two British scientific advisers warn it's too soon to lift lockdownEngland's lockdown will ease slightly on Monday, with groups of up to six people allowed to meet outside and primary schools re-opening to ...
- WHO chief urges US to reconsider funding, says 'virus will be with us for a long time'The WHO's top emergencies expert Dr. Mike Ryan warned against opening up global travel too quickly, saying it would require "careful risk m...
- Virus may infect 30% of the population. Should you sell everything and go home?2020 is going to be a very tough year for the markets as the economic recovery has been pushed back by coronavirus outbreak, says Sridhar S...
- WEF 2015: After Ebola, flu and drug resistance top pandemic threatsThere is little doubt that Ebola would not have taken hold on the scale it did in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea if the health systems in...
- Antibiotic crisis needs united global response: ExpertsGrowing resistance to antibiotics and other drugs demands a co-ordinated global response on the same scale as efforts to address climate ch...
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