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Nine in 10 smokers start before they are 18 years old, warns WHO

New York/IBNS: Tobacco products continue to kill eight million people a year who get hooked via a $9 billion a year marketing strategy. That’s the warning from the UN World Health O ...

High doses of vitamin D supplementation has no current benefit in preventing or treating Covid-19: Study

London: Scientists from the UK, Europe and the USA, including experts from the University of Birmingham, have published a vitamin D consensus paper warning against high doses of vitamin D ...

COVID-19 patients who undergo surgery are at increased risk of postoperative death, warns global study

London: Patients undergoing surgery after contracting coronavirus are at greatly increased risk of postoperative death, a new global study published in The Lancet reveals. Researchers fou ...

China's Jilin reports no new COVID-19 cases

Changchun/Xinhua: No newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and asymptomatic cases were reported in northeast China's Jilin Province for Thursday, the provincial health commission said Friday ...

Countries failing to stop harmful marketing of breast-milk substitutes, warn WHO and UNICEF

Geneva: A new report by WHO, UNICEF, and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) reveals that despite efforts to stop the harmful promotion of breast-milk substitutes, countrie ...

Chinese mainland reports one new imported COVID-19 case

Beijing/Xinhua: The Chinese mainland reported one new imported COVID-19 case Tuesday, bringing the total number of imported cases to 1,732, the National Health Commission said Wednesday. ...

COVID-19: Researchers now develop new way of reusing N95 mask 

New York: Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there’s been a worldwide shortage of face masks — particularly, the N95 ones worn by health care workers. 

Researchers discover new sex hormone

Ottawa: New hormone that stimulates sexual functions in fish could lead to novel infertility treatments in humans, say researchers.

Most young people with increased suicide risk only display ‘mild to moderate’ mental distress: Study

New York:Around 70% of young people who report self-harming or suicidal thoughts are within normal or non-clinical range of mental distress.