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World Malaria Day 2025: Tips For Quick Recovery
The theme for World Malaria Day 2025 is Malaria Ends With Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite. This year's theme aims to re-energize efforts at all levels, from global policy to community action, to accelerate progress towards malaria elimination.
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Breast Cancer Prevention: 8 Effective Ways To Lower Your Breast Cancer Risk
According to the World Health Organisation, breast cancer caused 670,000 deaths globally in 2022.
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Typhoid Fever's Deadly Mutation: Ancient Killer Becomes Resistant To Last-Resort Antibiotics
Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, is evolving extensive drug resistance, making treatment challenging. Researchers found a rise in XDR Typhi strains resistant to frontline and newer antibiotics, spreading globally at an alarming rate.
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India's Air Quality Far Short Of United Nations' Standards: Official
India's air quality is far short of WHO standards and more than 40 per cent of its population still relies on biomass fuels, leading to deaths every year, an official from the United Nations body has said.
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"Could Happen Tomorrow": WHO Chief Says Next Pandemic Inevitable
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the certainty of future pandemics, urging global preparedness for inevitable health crises.
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World Health Day 2025: What To Eat During And After Pregnancy, According to Experts
World Health Day 2025: The theme, "Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures" marks a year-long global effort to improve outcomes for mothers and their babies.
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Fungi Vital To Life Face Growing Risk Of Extinction: Study
Nearly a third of species of fungi assessed by an international conservation group are at risk of extinction from threats like deforestation and agricultural expansion, the latest 'Red List' of threatened species showed on Thursday.
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Trump Administration To Cut Vaccine Support To Developing Countries: Report
President Donald Trump's administration is set to cut funding to Gavi, the global health organization that provides vaccines across the developing world, a report said.
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Hospitalised Pope Calls For Peace, 'Truth' In Conflicts
Pope Francis, hospitalised for a month with pneumonia, called Tuesday for an end to war in a letter to Italy's leading newspaper, and urged the media to "serve the truth".
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India's Innovations Transforming Global Health And Agriculture: Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has praised India's significant role in global health and agriculture, highlighting the country's growing influence in these fields.
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Pope Francis Signals He Will Continue, Starts Process For Catholic Reforms
Pope Francis approved a new three-year process to consider reforms for the global Catholic Church, the Vatican said on Saturday, in a sign the 88-year-old pontiff plans to continue on as pope despite his ongoing battle with double pneumonia.
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World Kidney Day 2025: These Habits Are Silently Harming Your Kidneys
World Kidney Day is an annual global event aimed at raising awareness about the importance of kidneys to overall health.
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5 Years On, COVID-19 Pandemic's Effects Still Felt On Global Economy
Five years after the World Health Organization first described the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, its effects are still being felt on the global economy.
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USAID Official Warns Of "Preventable Deaths" From Donald Trump's Foreign Aid Block
Nicholas Enrich, USAID's acting assistant administrator for global health, in the seven-page memo shared with staff, said "political leadership" had made it impossible to deliver lifesaving humanitarian assistance around the world.
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"PM Modi Much Ahead Of His Time": Top Indian-Origin Doctor To NDTV
US-based Indian-origin urologist Dr Ash Tewari, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently, said the prime minister is "very much ahead of his time" when it comes to health care and policies as he "is thinking about a global scale."
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World Malaria Day 2025: Tips For Quick Recovery
The theme for World Malaria Day 2025 is Malaria Ends With Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite. This year's theme aims to re-energize efforts at all levels, from global policy to community action, to accelerate progress towards malaria elimination.
-
Breast Cancer Prevention: 8 Effective Ways To Lower Your Breast Cancer Risk
According to the World Health Organisation, breast cancer caused 670,000 deaths globally in 2022.
-
Typhoid Fever's Deadly Mutation: Ancient Killer Becomes Resistant To Last-Resort Antibiotics
Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, is evolving extensive drug resistance, making treatment challenging. Researchers found a rise in XDR Typhi strains resistant to frontline and newer antibiotics, spreading globally at an alarming rate.
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India's Air Quality Far Short Of United Nations' Standards: Official
India's air quality is far short of WHO standards and more than 40 per cent of its population still relies on biomass fuels, leading to deaths every year, an official from the United Nations body has said.
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"Could Happen Tomorrow": WHO Chief Says Next Pandemic Inevitable
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the certainty of future pandemics, urging global preparedness for inevitable health crises.
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World Health Day 2025: What To Eat During And After Pregnancy, According to Experts
World Health Day 2025: The theme, "Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures" marks a year-long global effort to improve outcomes for mothers and their babies.
-
Fungi Vital To Life Face Growing Risk Of Extinction: Study
Nearly a third of species of fungi assessed by an international conservation group are at risk of extinction from threats like deforestation and agricultural expansion, the latest 'Red List' of threatened species showed on Thursday.
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Trump Administration To Cut Vaccine Support To Developing Countries: Report
President Donald Trump's administration is set to cut funding to Gavi, the global health organization that provides vaccines across the developing world, a report said.
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Hospitalised Pope Calls For Peace, 'Truth' In Conflicts
Pope Francis, hospitalised for a month with pneumonia, called Tuesday for an end to war in a letter to Italy's leading newspaper, and urged the media to "serve the truth".
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India's Innovations Transforming Global Health And Agriculture: Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has praised India's significant role in global health and agriculture, highlighting the country's growing influence in these fields.
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Pope Francis Signals He Will Continue, Starts Process For Catholic Reforms
Pope Francis approved a new three-year process to consider reforms for the global Catholic Church, the Vatican said on Saturday, in a sign the 88-year-old pontiff plans to continue on as pope despite his ongoing battle with double pneumonia.
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World Kidney Day 2025: These Habits Are Silently Harming Your Kidneys
World Kidney Day is an annual global event aimed at raising awareness about the importance of kidneys to overall health.
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5 Years On, COVID-19 Pandemic's Effects Still Felt On Global Economy
Five years after the World Health Organization first described the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic, its effects are still being felt on the global economy.
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USAID Official Warns Of "Preventable Deaths" From Donald Trump's Foreign Aid Block
Nicholas Enrich, USAID's acting assistant administrator for global health, in the seven-page memo shared with staff, said "political leadership" had made it impossible to deliver lifesaving humanitarian assistance around the world.
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"PM Modi Much Ahead Of His Time": Top Indian-Origin Doctor To NDTV
US-based Indian-origin urologist Dr Ash Tewari, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently, said the prime minister is "very much ahead of his time" when it comes to health care and policies as he "is thinking about a global scale."
