Topic: health
Navigating health challenges during fasting: insights and remedies
Fasting generally offers mental and physical vigor. However, despite its benefits, some individuals may encounter health challenges while fasting. Let's delve into these issues and their remedies.
India has over 100 million diabetics and 136 million pre-diabetics, says study
A new study has found that India has over 100 million diabetics and 136 million pre-diabetics.
Fake medicines kill half million sub-Saharan Africans a year: UNODC report
Trafficked medical products kill almost half a million sub-Saharan Africans every year, and action is needed to stem the flow, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) states in its new threat assessment report.
2022 in health: New Ebola and cholera outbreaks, mpox emergency, COVID-19 ‘not over’
The UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a cause for global concern, and outbreaks of cholera, Ebola and Monkeypox (now renamed mpox) led to the mobilization of health and aid workers to contain life-threatening illnesses.
UN health report: Women and children pay heaviest price for ‘gaping inequities’
A new UN report shows that women’s and children’s health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge, with devastating effects on prospects for children, young people and women.
World’s richest countries damaging child health worldwide: UNICEF
Over-consumption in the world’s richest countries is creating unhealthy, dangerous, and toxic conditions for children globally, according to UNICEF.
