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When A Man Locked His Head In Cage To Quit Smoking: Read Ibrahim Yucel's Story
Ibrahim Yucel had been smoking extensively for two decades when he decided to go to the extreme.
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World Oral Health Day 2024: Know Theme, Significance And Best Oral Care Tips
World Oral Health Day is a global event that aims to help reduce the burden of oral diseases, which affect individuals as well as the health systems and economies.
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Massive New Study Reveals Global Health Challenge Of Bacterial Infections
The study was conducted under the framework of the Global Burden of Disease, a vast research programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation involving thousands of researchers across the world.
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World Asthma Day: Our Expert Tells You Your Risks Of Getting Asthma. Know All About The Disease
World Asthma Day 2018: Dr Arvind Perathur talks about the global burden of asthma and why the incidence of asthma has increased in the past 2 decades.
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India Accounted for the Highest Rheumatic Heart Disease Deaths in 2015: 5 Anti-Inflammatory Foods for Good Health
As per a new report, titled Global, Regional, and National Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease, 1990-2015, India accounted for the highest number of deaths due to rheumatic heart disease in 2015 with more than 119,000 people dying from the ailment.
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Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Led To 3 Million Deaths Worldwide In 2015: Study
Two common chronic respiratory conditions- asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)- led to over 3 million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in a reputed medical journal has said, highlighting that India, along with three other countries, recorded the highest disease burden due to COPD.
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Health Check: 25% of the World's Tuberculosis Patients in India
According to a latest study, conducted by the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) researchers, India bears the highest burden of tuberculosis globally and about 25% of the world's tuberculosis patients belong to India.
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Life Expectancy Rising, Chronic Diseases Impairing Health: Study
The Global Burden of Disease study, which shows the key drivers of ill-health, disability and death in individual countries, found that by 2015, the world population had gained more than a decade of life expectancy since 1980 - rising to 69 years in men and 74.8 years in women.
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India Recorded Highest Under-Five Deaths In 2015, Shows Study
The Global Burden of Disease study 2015 published in the Lancet which assesses the state of world's health, said over a million under-five children have died in 2015 in India.
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Climate Impact Predicted to Drastically Increase the Burden of Diseases
Climate change could cause significant changes to global diets, leading to more than half a million extra deaths in 2050 from illnesses such as stroke, cancer and heart disease, experts revealed.
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Obesity Epidemic Has Spread Globally: Why You Should be Worried
Nearly a third of adults and a quarter of children today are overweight, according to a report by the Global Burden of Disease Study published in The Lancet medical journal. No country has turned the tide of obesity since 1980. Traditionally associated...
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BMJ on Health in South Asia
In South Asia, which contains a quarter of the world's population, half the population live below the poverty line. Some 34% of the world's child deaths occur in the region, which has almost two thirds of the global burden of malnutrition. Of the nearly 4 million child deaths a year over two thirds are attributable to infection. In addition, India ...
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When A Man Locked His Head In Cage To Quit Smoking: Read Ibrahim Yucel's Story
Ibrahim Yucel had been smoking extensively for two decades when he decided to go to the extreme.
-
World Oral Health Day 2024: Know Theme, Significance And Best Oral Care Tips
World Oral Health Day is a global event that aims to help reduce the burden of oral diseases, which affect individuals as well as the health systems and economies.
-
Massive New Study Reveals Global Health Challenge Of Bacterial Infections
The study was conducted under the framework of the Global Burden of Disease, a vast research programme funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation involving thousands of researchers across the world.
-
World Asthma Day: Our Expert Tells You Your Risks Of Getting Asthma. Know All About The Disease
World Asthma Day 2018: Dr Arvind Perathur talks about the global burden of asthma and why the incidence of asthma has increased in the past 2 decades.
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India Accounted for the Highest Rheumatic Heart Disease Deaths in 2015: 5 Anti-Inflammatory Foods for Good Health
As per a new report, titled Global, Regional, and National Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease, 1990-2015, India accounted for the highest number of deaths due to rheumatic heart disease in 2015 with more than 119,000 people dying from the ailment.
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Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Led To 3 Million Deaths Worldwide In 2015: Study
Two common chronic respiratory conditions- asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)- led to over 3 million deaths worldwide in 2015, a report in a reputed medical journal has said, highlighting that India, along with three other countries, recorded the highest disease burden due to COPD.
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Health Check: 25% of the World's Tuberculosis Patients in India
According to a latest study, conducted by the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) researchers, India bears the highest burden of tuberculosis globally and about 25% of the world's tuberculosis patients belong to India.
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Life Expectancy Rising, Chronic Diseases Impairing Health: Study
The Global Burden of Disease study, which shows the key drivers of ill-health, disability and death in individual countries, found that by 2015, the world population had gained more than a decade of life expectancy since 1980 - rising to 69 years in men and 74.8 years in women.
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India Recorded Highest Under-Five Deaths In 2015, Shows Study
The Global Burden of Disease study 2015 published in the Lancet which assesses the state of world's health, said over a million under-five children have died in 2015 in India.
-
Climate Impact Predicted to Drastically Increase the Burden of Diseases
Climate change could cause significant changes to global diets, leading to more than half a million extra deaths in 2050 from illnesses such as stroke, cancer and heart disease, experts revealed.
-
Obesity Epidemic Has Spread Globally: Why You Should be Worried
Nearly a third of adults and a quarter of children today are overweight, according to a report by the Global Burden of Disease Study published in The Lancet medical journal. No country has turned the tide of obesity since 1980. Traditionally associated...
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BMJ on Health in South Asia
In South Asia, which contains a quarter of the world's population, half the population live below the poverty line. Some 34% of the world's child deaths occur in the region, which has almost two thirds of the global burden of malnutrition. Of the nearly 4 million child deaths a year over two thirds are attributable to infection. In addition, India ...
