Air pollution kills a child every 3 minutes in India
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar recorded the highest rate of child mortality due to toxic air: Global Burden of Disease 2017
India’s neglected tropical diseases
India experiences the world’s largest burden of at least 11 major non-communicable diseases
WHO’s new programme to eliminate neglected tropical diseases in Africa
These diseases affect economically poorer sections having severe impact on their lives and progress
10.9 million people died due to poor diets in 2017: Report
Global Burden of Disease study highlights how low consumption of healthy food is better than more consumption of unhealthy foods
Death rate has declined globally since 2006
The leading causes of global deaths declined by 30% in just a decade, says a latest study, which is the world’s largest scientific …
Lessons Delhi could learn from Beijing to clean up its air act
Delhi's bad air woes are worsened by an unresponsive media, unaware people and a government that does not seem to care
Global Burden of Disease ranks air pollution as a top killer
Killer outdoor air contributes to 1.2 million deaths in East Asia which is in throes of high level of economic growth and motorization and 712,…
The imperative of controlling blood pressure
High blood pressure or hypertension is both preventable and treatable. One in three adults worldwide has high blood pressure. In an interview …
Air pollution killing 620,000 Indians every year: Global Burden of Disease report
Six-fold increase in air pollution-related deaths in the past decade, says report that tracks disease causes across the world
Why environmental degradation is a big health risk
Down To Earth and Centre for Science and Environment jointly release Body Burden 2015, an annual health report
Most comprehensive study on HIV, malaria, TB shows major progress in the millennium
Funding and policy have had real impact in combating the diseases, although challenges remain
One in four Indians above 30 risks dying of lifestyle diseases: WHO
Report shows India has no multi-pronged plan to reduce NCDs or a proper monitoring and surveillance system
Azad calls for support from ministries, civil society to fight HIV
Civil society calls the move an eyewash; NACO seeks more budgetary allocations by ministries and signing of MoUs before March next year
Non communicable diseases causing more premature deaths in India now
World Bank report says heart diseases have replaced TB and sepsis as two of the five leading causes of deaths between 1990 and 2010
COVID-19 mortality spikes in states with high burden of chronic diseases
There is incontrovertible evidence that underlying conditions deter the capacity to combat the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Dementia cases in India to double by 2050, Lancet study shows
Worldwide, the caseload is set to almost triple by 2050
Depression, anxiety top contributors to global disease burden for 3 decades: Analysis
Pandemic may increase cases; prevalence higher among women
Curb soot, methane emissions in Himalaya to slow global warming: World Bank
'A million deaths can be averted annually by containing these emissions'
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