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Not just hot days, hot nights are the real problem: Why heatwave health impact and risk increases after sunsetHot nights are emerging as a serious health risk, especially during ongoing heatwaves across India. When temperatures remain high after sun...
Excess deaths during COVID-19 in line with pre-2020 trend, says govt sources citing dataOfficial data reveals India's excess mortality during 2020-2021. The figure is lower than several high and middle-income countries. The Civ...
12 lakh excess deaths in Covid year, reveals report; govt says methodology flawedResearchers, including those from Oxford University, analyzed data from the National Family Health Survey 2019-21 and estimated that nearly...
"Erroneous": Health Ministry on media reports highlighting excess mortality in 2020The Ministry said that the study is erroneous and the methodology followed by the authors has critical flaws; the claims are inconsistent a...
How many people died of Covid in US? Real figure is higher than official recordAccording to the World Health Organization, the total number of global deaths attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 is not less tha...
Heat waves becoming more frequent, deadly, study findsA study published in Nature Communications reveals that the risk of fatal heat waves has significantly increased in the last 20 years and w...
Independence Day: 165 million unaccounted Indian victims of the British colonial regimeA research article published last year has brought to light how policy-induced famines killed tens of millions of Indians in 40 years,1880 ...
View: Disaggregated mortality data could help document the likely tens of millions of lives saved from India’s vaccination rolloutThe key assumption is that increases in all-cause mortality during peak weeks of Covid compared to pre-pandemic periods are nearly all due ...
Speakers at health conference object to WHO report on Covid deaths in IndiaThe three-day conference of the CCHFW, an apex advisory body of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), began on Thursday. It is...
WHO says 4.7 million died of Covid in India in new report, Centre objectsNew estimates from the WHO show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the Covid-19 pandemic, described as "excess...
Health Ministry questions WHO's method of counting Covid deathsThe response came after The New York Times published an article titled - India Is Stalling the WHO's Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Tol...
Speculative and misinformed: Govt on Lancet's report on high Covid 19 mortality in IndiaIn a statement, the ministry said the study provided estimates of all cause excess mortality for a number of countries based on a mathemati...
Over 7 lakh deaths in India per year linked to abnormal temperatures: Lancet studyThe study published on Wednesday found that deaths related to hot temperatures increased in all regions from 2000 to 2019, indicating that ...
States record Covid toll as per ICMR: Centre on 'speculative' report that India suffered 5-7 times excess deathsIn an official release, the ministry slammed a renowned international magazine for publishing an article that claimed that "India has suffe...
US ‘undercounted’ 3.4 lakh deaths, India 4.3 lakh: StudyAccording to the analysis in the study “Estimation of total mortality due to Covid-19”, the US and India together may have 7.7 lakh more de...
Understanding Covid-19 Mortality: Civil deaths data may hold the key“Vital registration systems that record births and deaths are unrivaled health surveillance tools that are particularly valuable in respond...
'Global economic crisis linked to 260,000 more cancer deaths'"We also found that public health-care spending was tightly associated with cancer mortality--suggesting health-care cuts could cost lives,...