Antibiotic-resistant infections are spreading wings in India, killing over 58,000 children every year, while uncontrolled dumping of untreated urban waste into water bodies is affecting aquatic life and environment.


Over 50,000 children die every year in India due to antibiotic resistance


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Air quality in Delhi and the adjoining areas worsened to the 'very poor' category on Sunday, after a 3-day respite, and pollution is expected to increase over the next few days due to unfavourable weather conditions.


Delhi's air quality worsens again, no imminent improvement seen


Strategies that animals like lions, tigers and penguins use to find food can put their own lives in danger, a study says.


Why animals with high-risk strategies are likely to be extinct


Installing air purifiers in your homes and offices may, to some extent, help combat the impact of deadly air on your respiratory and circulatory systems; but the question remains: How effective they can be over time in mitigating the ill-effects of Delhi's toxic air.


Are air purifiers helpful inside your home?


The World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrates World Prematurity Day every year on November 17, to put the spotlight on premature babies.


Don't only think of survival of new-borns, but also their sight (November 17 is World Prematurity Day)


As part of its overseas geographic expansion into southeast Asia, Indian health and fitness app, HealthifyMe, has forayed into Malaysia to offer its services including diet and fitness plans, said a top official on Friday.


Indian health-fitness app start-up forays into Malaysia


India's first specialized hospital for elephants was on Friday formally opened by Agra Divisional Commissioner Anil Kumar at Farah block's Churmura village.


India's first elephant hospital opens in Mathura


People who experience migraine with visual aura may have an increased risk of irregular heartbeat, and as a result stroke, say researchers including one of an Indian-origin.


Migraines that affect vision may increase irregular heartbeat risk


In a bid to reduce global air pollution, Swedish home furnishing company IKEA on Thursday announced its plan to turn rice straws into a new renewable material source for its products.


IKEA to turn pollution-causing rice straws into products in India


In a bid to expand business geography, home diagnostic service provider Healthians on Thursday announced that it is set to hire 1,500 employees in the next 12 months.


Healthians to hire 1,500 phlebotomists, lab technicians by 2019


A 17-year-old Indian girl studying in a Dubai school has died after contracting flu, making it the second such death in two weeks, authorities said.


Indian student dies of flu in Dubai


British doctors said on Wednesday that they have saved the life of an unborn baby after his mother was shot dead with a crossbow in her east London home.


Baby delivered after pregnant mother killed in London


The air quality of the national capital and the regions around it, which on Wednesday improved to 'very poor' from 'severe' due to overnight rains, may again drop, warn monitoring agencies.


Delhi's air quality improves to 'very poor', may worsen


A four-year-old Indian boy died on a flight due to epileptic seizures on his way back from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah with his family.


4-year-old Indian boy returning from Umrah dies on flight


Chile born legendary bolero singer Lucho Gatica, who made Mexico his home for half a century, has died, his family said. He was 90.


Legendary bolero singer Lucho Gatica dies


Odisha's health sector received investment commitments worth Rs 2,750 crore, while the MSME sector got about Rs 1,177 crore worth of proposals during the third day of the 'Make in Odisha' Conclave on Tuesday.


Odisha's health sector gets Rs 2,750 cr investment commitments


Improved public health and nutrition programmes for children under five years of age, and higher education and wealth among expectant mothers substantially contributed to lowering anaemia among these two groups between 2006 and 2016, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) said.


Nutrition programmes, education help lowering anaemia in India


You have heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast, as the name implies, is to break the fast between dinner and lunch.


Breakfast and diabetes: What's the connection? (November 14 is World Diabetes Day)


The US military has adopted yoga into its training curriculum, Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik said on Monday.


US military adopted yoga in training curriculum: Minister


Kolkata, Nov 12 (IANS/Mongbay) Spending more time per day fetching water increased Indian women's risk of delivering a low birth-weight baby, a study has said.


Water access and sanitation shape birth outcomes and earning potential


Freezing pollutants can prevent deadly outdoor air pollution -- thought to cause more than three million premature deaths worldwide every year -- from seeping indoors by 99 per cent, scientists have discovered.

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