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Patients with high blood pressure double to 130 crore: WHO's first-ever report details devastating impact of hypertensionThe World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first-ever report on hypertension, highlighting the need to address this silent killer...
Tired of living with polycystic ovaries? Losing weight can be antidote for PCOS, claim researchersAlongside taking hormonal therapy, most guidance states weight loss is one of the best ways to manage PCOS. Even just a 5% loss of body wei...
UK Christmas strikes: Doctors in Wales 'willing' to join strike for first timeDoctors in Wales are likely to join the strikes happening over pay and working conditions. According to the union, the take-home pay of jun...
Countries with lower income faced 'systemic racism' in global Covid response: ReportA combination of undersupply of vaccines and treatments, underfunding of health systems, undervaluing of health workers, and poor adaptatio...
Fidel Valdez Ramos, ex-Philippine leader who helped oust dictator, diesOne of his longtime aides, Norman Legaspi, told The Associated Press that Ramos had been in and out of the hospital in recent years due to ...
View: India’s heatwaves are testing the limits of human survivalWhat’s most alarming about this heatwave is that it’s not so much a one-time ordeal as a taste of things to come as the effects of global w...
'Battlefield mode': Hong Kong hospitals buckle under Omicron-fuelled coronavirus wave"We call this the fever zone," a nurse in full-body protective gear told AFP, declining to be named. "Don't get too close." Hong Kong is in...
Omicron brings COVID-19 vaccine inequity 'home to roost'Perhaps nowhere is the inequality more evident than in Africa, where under 7% of the population is vaccinated. South African scientists ale...
24-hr shifts, staff shortages & low pay: India's Covid battle takes a toll on doctorsThe coronavirus infection has killed at least 165,000 people in the country since April.
Trump pushes racial division, flouts virus rules at RushmoreThe president dug further into American divisions on Friday, offering a discordant tone to an electorate battered by a pandemic and wounded...
Will Ayushman Bharat become a model for universal health care?The scheme, which covers hospitalisation costs for 50 cr beneficiaries, is closely identified with PM Modi.
For many medical grads, it’s baptism by fireCovid-19 pandemic is offering a field experience like no other and it means more than being stretched to the limit. The 12-hour shift of a ...
Rates of testing low in India: LancetLancet said that some reports suggest that the government's efforts to provide financial support and a measure of food security to ease the...
Africa could see 300,000 coronavirus deaths this yearThe new report is the most detailed public projection yet for coronavirus infections and deaths in Africa, where more than 1.3 billion peop...
Former Pakistani cricketer develops symptoms of coronavirus, passes away at 50Cricketer Zafar Sarfraz first fell ill earlier this month and was put on a ventilator at a Peshawar hospital.
When hospitals breed illnessHealthcare, despite its function of saving lives, is also inherently risky. More than 1000 people die in the US each day because of prevent...
- Ford earns $2.7 bn in 2009, first profit in 4 years
Defying economic conditions that sent its US rivals into bankruptcy court, Ford Motor Co. clawed its way to a $2.7 billion profit in 2009 a...