Bihar's alcohol ban in 2016 prevented 24 lakh cases of daily and weekly consumption, and 21 lakh cases of intimate partner violence, according to new research published in The Lancet Regional......
A study has been conducted on the causes and prevention of diabetes among the Indian population for the first time. Until now, such studies were conducted only on Western populations and the......
Got an overweight colleague? Friend? Family member? Watch your waistline -- latest research suggests that obesity is contagious. Harvard researchers working in tandem with their peers from the......
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More than a year after he was nominated by President Barack Obama, the US Senate, defying the powerful pro-gun lobby National Rifle Association, voted to confirm Dr Vivek Hellegere Murthy as the......
Image: Boys collect coconuts thrown in as offerings by worshippers in the waters of Ganga. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters Kolkata is the most polluted metropolis in the country with its......