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HealthLEADS: A Call for Global Health Community

August 4, 2022

By Syed Nazakat It all started with a breakfast conversation about how to make sense of health and how to build a community around it. When we launched a...

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Health misinformation: Meta preparing post-pandemic policy

July 30, 2022

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As the virus evolves, the company seeks the Oversight Board’s opinion on the need to formulate a new content moderation strategy Facebook has been flooded with...

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Silence of Dhadkaie

July 30, 2022

The mountain village in Jammu and Kashmir is believed to have the world’s highest prevalence of deaf and mute Located on a mountain slope in the Doda district...

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Towards a green menstruation

July 30, 2022

Single-use plastic in period products is contributing heavily to environmental pollution, sparking calls for a shift towards reusable eco-friendly alternatives...

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Air-ambulance demand soars in India as COVID -19 lockdown curbs intensify

July 7, 2022

Once considered to be an elite service in Indian healthcare delivery system, air-ambulances have come to rescue stranded patients during COVID-19 lockdown...

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Sound choices: The best hearing aids

June 30, 2022

Hearing aids are proven to drastically improve hearing by amplifying sounds and reducing background noise. Here’s our pick of the top hearing aids By Jisha...

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Urban loneliness: Little-understood, life-threatening public health challenge

June 29, 2022

Crowded cities, lonely people. Jisha Krishnan attempts to decipher the causes and consequences of urban loneliness, an epidemic that accelerates the risk of...

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Video warning against eating bitter gourd with ladyfinger gets 88 million FB views

May 27, 2022

A video claiming that “consuming bitter gourd or white radish after ladyfinger results in food poisoning, skin diseases and even death” is fake news Uploaded...

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Afghan healthcare crumbles under Taliban rule

May 24, 2022

Sehatmandi Program, the country’s largest health project, is hindered by a lack of adequate funding. The project was previously funded by a grant of $140...

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China’s zero Covid strategy faces old age hurdle

April 27, 2022

The overall vaccination rate in China stands at nearly 88 percent. But only about half of those over 80 and 48% of those over 60 have received two vaccinations...