public health
Cleaning products could protect you from toxic chemicals
Flame retardant chemicals have been linked to endocrine disruption, decreased fertility, and thyroid dysfunction in humans.
In US, cigarette smoking reaches new low: Study
However, large disparities remain, with people living in rural areas still far more likely to smoke than city-dwellers.
Childhood obesity increases risk of osteoarthritis
Here is what a new study has found.
WHO stresses on prioritising universal health coverage
Some 65 million are pushed into extreme poverty, mainly due to paying out-of-pocket for medicines.
New low-cost tool to detect bacteria in food, water
The researchers designed a sensitive and reliable bacteria-detecting chip that can test whether fresh foods can carry a bacterial load.
Obesity increases risk of cancer in adolescents
Obesity has shifted certain cancers to younger age groups, and intensified cellular mechanisms promoting the diseases.
Longtime US AIDS researcher picked to run CDC
Redfield, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore succeeds Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald.
World's most common STI affected by ethnic disparity
Here is what researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine found.
Taiwan to ban disposable plastic items by 2030
The island started recycling plastic and pushing to reduce single-use plastic items more than a decade ago.
‘Govt spent `996 per capita on health’
The NGO mentioned that it had conducted an exercise on developing a people’s health budget for 2018-19.