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No amount of alcohol is safe, shows WHO analysis

There is no safe limit to alcohol consumption and any amount of drinking can severely impact one's health, according to a statement published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in The Lancet......

Covid: Parl panel stresses swift strategy evolution for next-gen vaccines

A parliamentary committee has stressed the urgent need to evolve strategies for development of next-generation vaccines and recommended that the Union health ministry encourage vaccine development......

Mobile phones can increase cancer risk: WHO

Heavy use of mobile phones and other wireless communication devices could possibly cause cancer, the World Health Organisation has said and asked people to use texting and free-hands devices to......

Study finds no link between cell phone use, cancer

The World Health Organisation's study on links between mobile phone use and certain types of brain cancer has proved inconclusive. The researchers said that even though there could be possible......

Night shifts can cause cancer

It's a wake up call for all those busy working at odd hours in offices -- working in night shifts can cause cancer by disrupting your body clock. According to a new study, night shift work......

Govt revises gold import data from April; cuts Nov figures by $5 bn to $9.84 bn

The government has revised gold import data, bringing down numbers for November by $5 billion to $9.84 billion, possibly to rectify double accounting of inbound shipments. IMAGE: Kindly note the......

Serum develops meningitis vaccine

The Pune-based Serum Institute of India Ltd, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation and Meningococcal Vaccine Project, has developed a vaccine for meningococcal meningitis for the firs......

Ranbaxy's malaria drug awaits international nod

Even as India's largest drug maker, Ranbaxy, is confident of launching its first 'new drug' by January 2012 to combat malaria in the country, the global euphoria the potential drug had generated in......

2nd Indian co withdraws AIDS drugs

Hyderabad-based Hetero Drugs Ltd has become the second Indian pharmaceutical company after Ranbaxy to withdraw its anti-AIDS drugs from special World Health Organisation certification, saying it is......

Toxins in cough syrups, other drugs due to plastic bottling

Popular antacid Mucaine Gel, manufactured by Pfizer's subsidiary Wyeth Laboratories, was also found laced with the heavy metals as well as cadmium. A recent health ministry study has......

Will Zika virus keep athletes away from Rio Olympics?

'So far there is no travel ban being pronounced by the WHO' IMAGE: A municipal worker stands next to a banner that reads, "Rio Carnival 2016" before spraying insecticide to prevent the spread of......

Doping: WADA defends TUE system after leaked data

IMAGE: Spain's Rafael Nadal. Photograph: Manvender Vas/PTI . The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Wednesday defended the Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) system after some athletes' confidential......

WADA approves 2011 list of prohibited substances

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has approved the list of prohibited substances for 2011 with several changes made from previous year, including addition of a section to address abuse of......

'Indian cricket doesn't need Olympics to grow'

The Indian cricketers' stance on the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) compliance has drawn a lot of comment, both positive and negative. I would like to look at this issue another way: does the......

Sports Shorts: Dipa qualifies for final round of Artistic Gymnastics World Cup

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Dipa Karmakar performed a higher difficulty Handfront 540 vault for the first time in the competition. Photograph:......

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