WEB EXCLUSIVE | How COVID-19 has hit India’s fight against TB
It is slowly becoming apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic, which first hit India in early 2020, has had devastating and…
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Obesity: What you need to know as it grows to ‘epidemic proportions’
Obesity is a chronic disease that affects millions of people worldwide and has become a major health problem. It has…
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WHO sees ‘incredibly low’ COVID-19, flu vaccination rates as cases surge preventing flu
A medical worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at a vaccination center in Nice, France, on December 7, 2022. |…
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Hydroxychloroquine: COVID ‘cure’ linked to 17,000 deaths
Amidst the panic of the first wave of COVID-19, existing drugs were repurposed as a treatment. Some ideas were fatal,…
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Global malaria cases become stagnant, sparking questions about control, funding, adaptation and challenges
After two decades of falling incidence numbers, malaria cases worldwide since 2015 have not declined as many hoped, and, in…
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Malaria cases, deaths plummet by 69 per cent in India between 2017-2023
India has seen significant progress in reducing malaria incidence and mortality rates, according to the latest World Malaria report, from…
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World Mosquito Day: Here are Some of the Most Dangerous Mosquito-Borne Diseases
It has been more than 125 years since the role of mosquitoes as the transmitters of malaria was discovered on…
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