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Lead poisoning may be one of the most overlooked challenges in global health, education, and development. Exposure to lead creates a multi-pronged and permanent attack on these children’s health and development during their vulnerable and formative early years, with devastating lifelong effects. Lead exposure is associated with cognitive deficits, lower educational attainment, behavioral disorders, violence, and reduced lifetime earnings. Though data is patchy, estimates suggest that lead expo...

 Duburi: Reiterating its commitment towards community development, the ground-breaking of the new block of Primary Health Centre to be constructed by Tata Steel Foundation was done by Er Pritiranjan Gharei, Honb’le Minister of Rural Development,

 BackgroundThe WHO people-centred approach to addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the human health sector recognizes and aims to address the challenges and health system barriers people face when accessing health services to prevent, diagnose and treat (drug-resistant) infections. It puts people and their needs at the centre of the AMR response and guides policy-makers in taking programmatic and comprehensive actions to mitigate AMR in line with a proposed package of core interventions...

Join the WHO Air Quality, Energy and Health Unit for the webinar “The foundation of air quality actions” to be held on 19 October 2023 at 2-3:30pm (CEST). The webinar aims to: Launch the Improving the capacity of countries to report on air quality in cities: Users’ guide to the repository of United Nations tools report which is a primer to air quality management. Highlight step-by-step guidance for building national plans. Showcase national initiatives that integrated UN tools to impro...

The World Federation of Neurology (WFN) and the Canadian Neurological Society (CNS) will host the XXVI World Congress of Neurology (WCN) in Montreal, Canada,

/PRNewswire/ -- The World Federation of Neurology (WFN) and the Canadian Neurological Society (CNS) will host the XXVI World Congress of Neurology (WCN) in...

Mumbai : Hero Vired, India's premium learning company for professionals and higher education aspirants, has taken a significant step in prioritizing the mental well-being of its learners by introducing an industry-first mental health initiative, 'Vir

Dr Rajiv Agarwal, Principal Director and Unit Head - Cardiology, shares five heart-healthy habits you must adopt in your daily lifestyle. 

When: 4 Oct. 2023, 13:00–14:00 CEST, This event will focus on influenza vaccines - what is important for seasonal influenza vaccines to be effective, and the development of vaccine virus candidates for zoonotic influenza as part of preparedness efforts. The webinar will feature real-time human interpretation in Arabic, French, Portuguese and Spanish, complemented by cutting-edge AI-powered simultaneous interpretation for Chinese, Bengali, Hindi and Russian.

Dr Mayur Manji Mewada shares that around seventy thousand human deaths occur worldwide due to dog bites annually. Most of these deaths occur in rural areas and developing countries. TheHealthSite.com