Seeing the forest for the trees
Recently, the dilemma of human–wildlife conflict has created great opportunity to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems for both people and ecosystems. The emerging “One Health” movemen explicitly
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Lead still found in some Flint, Michigan, water: governor
Five months after Flint, Michigan, changed its water supply due to problems with lead contamination and discolored drinking water, nearly 9 percent of the city's sites tested for lead in the water continue
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'TB kills one person every minute'
Eleven years after the World Health Organisation declared Tuberculosis (TB) a global health emergency, the bacterial disease, in formidable alliance with the HIV, remains a leading killer in the
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Poor quality water in 1.80-lakh rural habitations
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: About 1.80-lakh rural habitations are afflicted by poor water quality leading to serious health problems such as cancer and fluorosis that damages bones, teeth and muscles.
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Every breath that we take
Class VIII student Juhi Neogi of Loreto House is determined to start a campaign against environment sharks after attending a session by actor and wildlife photographer Sabyasachi Chakraborty and fashion designer Agnimitra Paul.
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Contaminated Flint water among most expensive in the U.S.: report
Residents of Flint, Michigan, one of the poorest cities in the United States, paid some of the nation's highest water bills even as the city failed to treat drinking water properly, leading to lead contamination,
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A user-centered, iterative engineering approach for advanced biomass cookstove design and development
<p>Unclean combustion of solid fuel for cooking and other household energy needs leads to severe household air pollution and adverse health impacts in adults and children. Replacing traditional solid fuel
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Call to focus on tobacco hazards in medical textbooks
Dr Bhaben Choudhury, an eminent ENT specialist and researcher on tobacco and health problems, has said that during the past 20 years, numerous epidemiological, clinical, pathological and experimental studies have shown that tobacco is related to disability diseases, leading to various health problems.
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Leading pulmonologists ask Env Min to implement emission standards for coal plants
Environment Ministry to implement emission standards of coal plants, one of the biggest contributors to air pollution, without further delay. The doctors from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore
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Swine flu's tendency to mutate leads to rise in cases
After the H1N1 virus mutation last year, experts had confirmed that the disease was not seasonal anymore. The 'California' strain of the disease has existed since 2009, while the 'Michigan' strain was
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Air pollution may lead to brain cancer
A team of researchers is set to conduct a study to determine if several potentially toxic compounds that exist in polluted air are capable of entering the brain from the bloodstream and causing brain cancer.
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Plan to develop Maharashtra as biotech destination
With plans to set up a biotech park in Pune and develop the Pune University into a Centre of Excellence, Maharashtra, has initiated a roadmap to emerge as the country's leading biotech
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More than 2 million children have HIV
More than 2 million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV, almost all in SAfrica where there is no access to treatment and death is virtu-ally guaranteed, seven leading child advocacy
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Air cleaning reveals hidden danger
Pilot Study In CP Finds Disturbing Levels Of Heavy Metals That Pose Health Threat
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Rwanda Country Refugee Response Plan- January 2020-December 2021
<p>The Rwandan context offers an enabling environment for innovative responses and approaches for refugees based on its national systems and structures. In the framework of Comprehensive Refugee Response
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Stung by WHO report, govt focuses on lowering cancer drugs, stents’ cost
Stung by a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report that said the probability of people dying prematurely of leading non-communicable diseases (NCDs) was the highest in India among all SAARC nations,
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Shanghai Halts Johnson Controls Lead Processing
Shanghai authorities for the first time directly linked lead pollution that they said had sickened local children to emissions from a battery plant owned by Johnson Controls Inc., putting a further cloud
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Mouth, breast cancers rise in Bangladesh: Report
DHAKA : The number of cases of the cancers most common in men and women have shown an upward trend since 1990 while liver cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Bangladesh, reports UNB. Breast
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on impact of climate change in incidence of diseases, 21/07/2015
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on impact of climate change in incidence of diseases, 21/07/2015. No increase in incidence of contagious diseases due to unprecedented changes in environment and climate
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Malawi: National CPAP program is a boon for more than half of newborns with respiratory illness
<p>Malawi has the world's highest preterm birth rate, with almost 1 in 5 babies born prematurely , but the Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) programme introduced by the health ministry as