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World Health Day is celebrated on the 7th of April every year to commemorate the establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO). The main focus of this organization is to spread awareness about the importance of good health and wellbeing in all parts of the world. The theme for this year is ‘Combat Drug Resistance: [...]
 It would be shocking to hear that not much is in our hands when it comes to diseases, just like the rest of our life, as the amount of free will that each of us has to ward off diseases is quite limited. This, however, does not mean that we stop putting efforts. These [...]
 The launch of a ready-to-sniff intra-nasal Swine flu vaccine by Pune’s Serum Institute of India (SII) has people breathing a sigh of relief because here is a painless way of preventing the disease. Available in powder form and reconstituted by adding water, just a single dose of the vaccine sprayed into the nose is [...]
It wasn’t too long ago, when an icy fear held our nation in its grip, with the epidemic attack of chikungunya, in the south of India. From February to October 2006, the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia had reported that 151 districts in 8 states of India were affected by chikungunya fever. The states [...]
 Since time immemorial, nature has showed us, the much intelligent mankind, that we are mere objects in the hands of a higher power. Human intellect, as of now, continues to fall short of ways and means of overpowering the laws of nature. The recent earthquake in Haiti is just one example of this, affecting the [...]
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