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India's Youngest Minds Now At High Risk For Mental Health Disorders: Expert Flags Concerns, Shares Tips
While discussions on mental health often focus on adolescents or adults, emerging data and clinical experience show that emotional and behavioural difficulties are surfacing much earlier - even among children as young as one to ten years old.
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Children's Day: Common Health Hazards Every Parent Should Prevent
Expectant and new parents often focus on the immediate, tangible needs of children. Yet, a life-saving skill set to develop is the knowledge to act decisively when a child's health and wellbeing hangs in the balance.
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Air Pollution Emerging As A Threat To Child Brain Development, Doctors Warn, Parents Worry
Research increasingly shows that exposure to fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, microscopic pollutants small enough to enter the bloodstream, can impair brain development, affect learning, and even raise the risk of neurological disorders in children
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Tuberculosis Cases In India Drop By 21%, Almost Double The Rate Of Decline Globally
In a significant development, TB incidence (new cases emerging each year) in India has been reduced by 21 per cent from 237 per lakh population in 2015 to 187 per lakh population in 2024, according to the government.
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Experts Warn Of Rising Cancer, Respiratory Risks As Delhi's Air Quality Deteriorates
Dr Charu Jora Goyal, a nuclear medicine physician and the founder and CEO of Scan4Health, said with the onset of winter and the festive season, air pollution emerges as one of the most potent carcinogens.
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"Health Emergency, Not Blame Game": Delhi Air Pollution Protesters Detained
Scores of people staged a protest near India Gate on Sunday, holding placards that read "Smog se Azadi!" and "Breathing is killing me" as Delhi's AQI touched 370.
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'Nationwide Health Emergency': Plea Filed In Top Court Over Air Pollution
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking urgent judicial intervention in the "nationwide public health emergency" caused by escalating air pollution across India.
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Delhi's Toxic Air Hides Another Health Crisis: 'Sunshine Vitamin' Deficiency
As air quality across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) worsens, a hidden health concern is emerging - a surge in vitamin D deficiency. With thick smog cutting off sunlight, doctors are now urging residents to take supplements.
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Stroke Vs Heart Attack: Know The Difference - Spot Signs, Save Lives
Stroke and heart attack are both medical emergencies but affect different organs and need different immediate actions.
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World Stroke Day: Nithin Kamath Shares The Importance Of Golden 4.5 Hours
World Stroke Day is observed every year on October 29 to raise awareness about strokes, which occur when blood flow to the brain is interrupted.
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Sicily's Caltabellotta Joins The Elite 5 Blue Zones: Longevity Lessons From The Region
A new demographic study identifies Caltabellotta in Sicily's Sicani Mountains as an "emerging Blue Zone" where non-agenarians are nearly three times the Italian average.
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As Madhya Pradesh Grapples With Cough Syrup Deaths, Another Lapse Emerges
Even as Madhya Pradesh continues to grapple with the deaths of 23 children in the Chhindwara toxic cough syrup tragedy, another case of alleged negligence by the health department has come to light, this time involving lakhs of children
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Travel Insurance Guide: What It Covers And What It Doesn't For Your Trips
With travel increasing, so are the chances of delays, lost baggage, and health emergencies. Travel insurance cushions you from these financial shocks. Read on.
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Centre Holds High-Level Meeting After Cough Syrup Deaths
The Union Health Ministry on Sunday held an emergency high-level meeting with health secretaries and drug control officials from all States and Union Territories in the wake of multiple child deaths linked to contaminated cough syrup.
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Covid Variants Over Time: Alpha To Omicron To Stratus, Tracked And Explained
Since SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in late 2019 the virus has spawned dozens of lineages, a handful of global "variants of concern" that changed the course of the pandemic.
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India's Youngest Minds Now At High Risk For Mental Health Disorders: Expert Flags Concerns, Shares Tips
While discussions on mental health often focus on adolescents or adults, emerging data and clinical experience show that emotional and behavioural difficulties are surfacing much earlier - even among children as young as one to ten years old.
-
Children's Day: Common Health Hazards Every Parent Should Prevent
Expectant and new parents often focus on the immediate, tangible needs of children. Yet, a life-saving skill set to develop is the knowledge to act decisively when a child's health and wellbeing hangs in the balance.
-
Air Pollution Emerging As A Threat To Child Brain Development, Doctors Warn, Parents Worry
Research increasingly shows that exposure to fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, microscopic pollutants small enough to enter the bloodstream, can impair brain development, affect learning, and even raise the risk of neurological disorders in children
-
Tuberculosis Cases In India Drop By 21%, Almost Double The Rate Of Decline Globally
In a significant development, TB incidence (new cases emerging each year) in India has been reduced by 21 per cent from 237 per lakh population in 2015 to 187 per lakh population in 2024, according to the government.
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Experts Warn Of Rising Cancer, Respiratory Risks As Delhi's Air Quality Deteriorates
Dr Charu Jora Goyal, a nuclear medicine physician and the founder and CEO of Scan4Health, said with the onset of winter and the festive season, air pollution emerges as one of the most potent carcinogens.
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"Health Emergency, Not Blame Game": Delhi Air Pollution Protesters Detained
Scores of people staged a protest near India Gate on Sunday, holding placards that read "Smog se Azadi!" and "Breathing is killing me" as Delhi's AQI touched 370.
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'Nationwide Health Emergency': Plea Filed In Top Court Over Air Pollution
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking urgent judicial intervention in the "nationwide public health emergency" caused by escalating air pollution across India.
-
Delhi's Toxic Air Hides Another Health Crisis: 'Sunshine Vitamin' Deficiency
As air quality across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) worsens, a hidden health concern is emerging - a surge in vitamin D deficiency. With thick smog cutting off sunlight, doctors are now urging residents to take supplements.
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Stroke Vs Heart Attack: Know The Difference - Spot Signs, Save Lives
Stroke and heart attack are both medical emergencies but affect different organs and need different immediate actions.
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World Stroke Day: Nithin Kamath Shares The Importance Of Golden 4.5 Hours
World Stroke Day is observed every year on October 29 to raise awareness about strokes, which occur when blood flow to the brain is interrupted.
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Sicily's Caltabellotta Joins The Elite 5 Blue Zones: Longevity Lessons From The Region
A new demographic study identifies Caltabellotta in Sicily's Sicani Mountains as an "emerging Blue Zone" where non-agenarians are nearly three times the Italian average.
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As Madhya Pradesh Grapples With Cough Syrup Deaths, Another Lapse Emerges
Even as Madhya Pradesh continues to grapple with the deaths of 23 children in the Chhindwara toxic cough syrup tragedy, another case of alleged negligence by the health department has come to light, this time involving lakhs of children
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Travel Insurance Guide: What It Covers And What It Doesn't For Your Trips
With travel increasing, so are the chances of delays, lost baggage, and health emergencies. Travel insurance cushions you from these financial shocks. Read on.
-
Centre Holds High-Level Meeting After Cough Syrup Deaths
The Union Health Ministry on Sunday held an emergency high-level meeting with health secretaries and drug control officials from all States and Union Territories in the wake of multiple child deaths linked to contaminated cough syrup.
-
Covid Variants Over Time: Alpha To Omicron To Stratus, Tracked And Explained
Since SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in late 2019 the virus has spawned dozens of lineages, a handful of global "variants of concern" that changed the course of the pandemic.
