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New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): Union Health Minister Mansukh Madaviya on Wednesday emphasized early awareness of the ill effects of tobacco among children while presiding over the release of the National Fact Sheet of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS-4).

When Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath chose the occasion of World Population Day on July 11 to announce a new state population policy, there normally should have been no quarrel about it. After all, the state is India’s most populous, harbouring nearly 200 million people (as per Census 2011) or 17 per cent of India’s population. If it were to become a nation, Uttar Pradesh would have the fifth largest population in the world. So instead of welcoming a policy to control the state...

Representative Image MUMBAI: Mumbai’s suburbs such as Ghatkopar, Vikhroli, Bhandup, Mulund, Kurla, Andheri, Vile Parle and Kandivli are more prone to Covid-19 due to prolonged and excessive exposure to air pollutants, states a new study. The first-of-its-kind ward-level study by the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS) points to a significant association between pollution and Covid-19 in Mumbai. While the concentration of particulate matter (PM10) is much more than the WHO-s...

news The myth of Indias population explosion © Getty Images More than 220 million people live in Uttar Pradesh, Indias most populous state Uttar Pradesh, Indias most populous state, has unveiled a controversial bill for curbing population growth. It proposes denying government jobs, promotions, subsidies and the right to contest local elections to anyone who has more than two children. UP, which is home to over 220 million people, has long been a governance challenge and has consistently ra...

Updated: June 29, 2021 10:06 IST State’s COVID-19 bio-medical waste was just 84 tonnes in June 2020, which increased to 588.03 tonnes in August 2020 Share Article AAA A file photo of a worker disposing bio medical waste from the COVID-19 ward of a hospital.   State’s COVID-19 bio-medical waste was just 84 tonnes in June 2020, which increased to 588.03 tonnes in August 2020 With a massive increase in the quantum of COVID-19-related bio-medical waste (BMW) from the hospitals, quarantine cen...

A gap analysis study said 70% of the states do not have well-established systems to monitor common BMW treatment facilities (CBMWTFs) and only 12 have upgraded as per new emission rules. Two hundred CBMWTFs are available across India, but are insufficient.

Buffalo, N.Y. (PRWEB) June 04, 2021 -- The joint Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center/Kaiser Permanente Northern California team behind a new study to be

Celebrating World No Tobacco Day 2021: Commit to Quit

Credit: The Lundquist Institute LOS ANGELES (May 31, 2021) -- Today The Lundquist Institute announced that its investigators contributed data from several studies, including data on Hispanics, African-Americans and East Asians, to the international MAGIC collaboration, composed of more than 400 global academics, who conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis led by the University of Exeter. Now published in Nature Genetics, their findings demonstrate that expanding research into differe...

Today The Lundquist Institute announced that its investigators contributed data from several studies, including data on Hispanics, African-Americans and East Asians, to the international MAGIC collaboration, composed of more than 400 global academics, who conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis led by the University of Exeter.