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Fair sex, unfair pay: Women in healthcare paid 24% less than men, highlights WHO report

India, March 14 -- Gender pay gap despite women comprising 67% of global health & social care workforce,specialties still dominated by men A new report by the World Health Organization addressed the ... Read More


Major droughts make women 35 per cent more likely to be underweight: New study

India, March 13 -- Teenage pregnancy & intimate partner violence also grew after drought episodes Natural disasters, which are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change, affect women a... Read More


Almost 5 million children diedbefore their fifth birthdayin 2022, finds UN report

India, March 13 -- A neonatal death happened every 14 seconds, one under five death every 6 seconds Global child deaths reached a historic low in 2022, according to the latest estimates by the United... Read More


44 million women, 26 million men in India were obese in 2022: The Lancet

India, March 1 -- Obesity rates in country increased to 9.8% in 2022 from 1.2% in 1990 for women and to 5.4% for men from 0.5% 32 years ago There were 70 million adults living with obesity in India i... Read More


Cancer treatment can cause metastasis; a newnutraceutical drug can contain it: Research

India, Feb. 28 -- R-Cu made from grape extract, resveratrol, and copper,deactivateschromatin particles, reduces toxicity of chemotherapy drugs Rather than migrating cancer cells, conventional cancer ... Read More


Indians have worse lung function post COVID-19 compared to other populations: CMC study

India, Feb. 20 -- Higher levels of comorbidity in the Indian population may be a reason A new study assessed lung impairment in Indians post-COVID-19 recovery and found that the prevalence of residua... Read More


Birdflu outbreak in Andhra: Could H5N1 spark next pandemic? New paper warns of risks

India, Feb. 19 -- Over 48 mammal species infected with virus since 2020;threat of mutation that sustains human-to-human transmission A bird flu outbreak in poultry in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore distric... Read More