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Lancet report says current approaches rely on BMI which is not an honest measure of health

The dramatic decline of fertility rates in the State is a clear indication of the challenges, including dwindling young workforce and the economic burden due to healthcare costs and other social security systems due to an aging population, which the state has to focus proactively.

The urgency of the climate crisis and its effects on child health are undeniable, says Lancet Countdown report 

Says govt failed to deliver quality services

Researchers found that the symptom of experiencing pain during sexual intercourse, or dyspareunia, affected more than a third of such postpartum women, while 32 per cent of these women experienced low back pain

The findings were broadly similar in analyses using EU data, with corresponding estimates being about 13, 9, or 5 years earlier death on average.

The IARC conducts and coordinates research into the causes of cancer and is an intergovernmental agency under the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

Put simply, a higher AI-estimated age relative to the actual chronological age indicates a greater likelihood of individuals having these diseases.

The research revealed that among women of reproductive age, gynaecological disorders and maternal haemorrhage were significant factors contributing to the burden of anaemia.

According to the study, treatment-related mortality is estimated at 6.82%, contributing to 30.9% of the overall mortality.

The study showed that a whopping 101 million people in India suffer from diabetes, while 136 million are pre-diabetic.

India now has over 101 million people living with diabetes, accounting for 11.4% of the population

The researchers found that the Omicron subvariant BQ.1.1 could not be neutralised by either individual antibodies or antibody cocktails.

New Delhi: A Health Ministry official has dismissed as “misleading and inappropriate” a Lancet report claiming that more than 47 per cent of antibiotic formulations used in India’s private sector in 2019 were unapproved. Prof. Y K Gupta, a senior pharmacologist and vice chairman of the Standing National Committee on Medicines (SNCM) which prepared the […]

Washington: People living in close proximity to those who smoke tobacco may have a higher risk of cancer as a new study published in The Lancet journal has found that second-hand smoking is the tenth biggest risk factor for the disease. Using results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) 2019 […]

New Delhi: Vaccines developed to fight Covid-19 helped prevent more than 42 lakh potential deaths in India in 2021, according to a mathematical modelling study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. The estimates based on excess deaths from 185 countries and territories showed that globally 19.8 million out of a potential 31.4 million Covid-19 […]

New Delhi: The Centre on Friday termed as “speculative and misinformed” a new study which claimed that India’s estimated cumulative excess Covid deaths between January 2020 and December 2021 was around eight times higher than reported. The Lancet reported on Thursday that although excess mortality rates due to Covid among Indian states are not the […]

London: A third ‘booster’ dose of Covid-19 vaccine successfully raises antibody levels that neutralise the Omicron variant, according to laboratory findings. Published as a research letter in The Lancet, researchers including from the Francis Crick Institute and UCLH Biomedical Research, found that antibodies generated in people who had received only two doses of either the […]

The Lancet, which published the phase three clinical trials data of Covaxin a few hours ago, said ‘BBV152 (Covaxin) was highly efficacious against laboratory-confirmed symptomatic Covid-19 disease in adults.

The study, published in The Lancet, suggests that additional 53 million cases of major depressive disorder and 76 million cases of anxiety disorders were due to the pandemic.