Transforming India’s approach to cancer care
In India, a country with a vast population and a diverse socio-economic fabric, healthcare remains fraught with challenges including disparities in access. These socio-economic disparities are deep, and
In India, a country with a vast population and a diverse socio-economic fabric, healthcare remains fraught with challenges including disparities in access. These socio-economic disparities are deep, and
Draft political declaration of the high-level meeting on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
South-East Asia Region Health Ministers meet in Jaipur Meetings of the Health Ministers of South-East Asian Region (SEAR) and the 64th session of the regional committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) opened here on Tuesday with a call to the world to wake up to the challenges posed by overuse and misuse of antibiotics and the increasing threat to human health from non-communicable diseases.
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Ma Jun, director of one of the Chinese environmental groups that have attacked Apple's environmental record Chinese environmental groups have accused Apple suppliers in the country of systemic pollution,
Ten years after the city’s public transport switched to CNG, air pollution has again become a major threat to public health in Delhi, say environmentalists. With 69 lakh vehicles plying on city roads,
<p> <span id="itro1">In this new report WHO maps the trends in noncommunicable diseases in 193 countries including India and suggests where each government needs to focus to prevent and treat 4 major
In a new report, the World Bank warns that heart disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory conditions, and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) increasingly threaten the health and economic security