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Underreporting of brain tumour cases and non-availability of neuroimaging facilities in India may be the cause of the low prevalence of the disease in the South Asian nation, experts say.
Drugs Health Pharma

India’s few neuroimaging units hinder tracking brain tumours

HQ Team June 10, 2025:Underreporting of brain tumour cases and non-availability of neuroimaging facilities in India may be the cause of the low.

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The number of active Covid-19 cases in India approached the 4,000-mark, with 161 people being infected with the disease in southern Kerala state and 82 being reported from the capital, New Delhi, as of June 2. 
Drugs Health Pharma

India’s active Covid-19 cases nears 4,000-mark, 32 deaths since January

HQ Team June 3, 2025: The number of active Covid-19 cases in India approached the 4,000-mark, with 161 people infected with the disease.

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South American country Peru has declared a health emergency in 20 of the nation’s 25 regions due to an increase in dengue cases.
Climate Health

Dengue on the rise in India: Climate change widens world danger zones

HQ Team May 16, 2025: Dengue fever has become a serious and growing health threat in India, especially between July and mid-November. Recent.

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Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, and US-based Launch Therapeutics, have joined hands to speed up the development of an experimental asthma drug.
Drugs Health Medical

Addressing India’s asthma crisis: Ensuring access to treatments for all

HQ Team May 7, 2025: It was World Asthma Day on May 6, and let us see how India has fared in the.

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Generic drugs made in India, which account for 93% of such medicines made from emerging countries, are linked to hospitalisation, disability and in a few cases death, compared to the US, according to a study by the Ohio State University.
Drugs Health Research

Generic Indian drugs have a 54% higher risk compared to US

HQ Team April 18, 2025: Generic drugs made in India, which account for 93% of such medicines made from emerging countries, are linked.

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Extreme heat due to climate change, combined with wildfires and desert dust, is having a pernicious effect on air quality, human health and the environment, a WMO report stated.
Climate

India dominates list of world’s most polluted cities with 13 featured in top 20

HQ Team March 11, 2025: A recent World Air Quality Report 2024 by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir, has highlighted that 13.

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US-based private equity and advisory investment firm KKR & Co. Inc. will pay CVC Capital Partners $400 million to acquire a majority stake in India’s HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd. (HCG).
Health Medical Pharma

KKR to acquire majority stake in India’s HCG for $400 million

US-based private equity and advisory investment firm KKR & Co. Inc. will pay CVC Capital Partners $400 million to acquire a majority stake.

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The US, the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, will withdraw from a global pact to limit global warming.
Climate Health Medical

US to pull out from Paris Agreement that limits global warming 

The US, the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, will withdraw from a global pact to limit global warming.

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Negotiators at a global climate conference signed a $300 billion-a-year deal to finance emissions reduction — that developing nations say falls way short of their expectations.
Climate Health Pharma

Global warming on backburner; vexed financing deal sees light at COP29 

Global representatives at a climate conference signed a $300 billion-a-year deal to finance emissions reductions — a move developing nations say falls way.

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GLP-1 based weight-loss drugs have some therapeutic benefits, but the risks are as high
Drugs Health Pharma

Global diabetic population rose fourfold to 828 million in 2022

The global diabetic population has risen fourfold to 828 million during the last three decades, with more than a quarter living in India,.

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