WHO Calls For Higher Taxes On Sugary Drinks

The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Tuesday to raise taxes on sugary drinks it blames for fuelling global epidemics of obesity and diabetes, saying this ...

ICHR: India's First Hospital-linked Digital Platform for Keeping Children's Health Records Launched

Your child's health records will now be made available at a click of a button. India's first ever digital platform, the Integrated Child Health Record (ICHR), for keeping a...

The Crippling Thing About Growing Up Poor That Stays With You Forever

Poverty has a way of rearing its ugly head, slipping into the cracks in people's lives when they're young and then re-emerging later in life. Sometimes it happens in ways t...

Jamie Oliver Wants Food Education On G20 Agenda

On World Food Day last week, Jamie Oliver took the opportunity to share again his Food Revolution Day petition in the lead up to the G20 summit in Turke...

Let’s Talk Health:’Obesity’

CNN-IBN, India’s most awarded English news channel, in collaboration with the Apollo Hospitals presents ‘Let’s Talk Health’ – a unique show th...

Cut the sugar in your diet: WHO

The World Health Organization has asked people to reduce their daily intake of free sugars. Its new guidelines released on Wednesday recommend that people get less than 10 ...

Global report shows how to beat the world’s biggest killers

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just released its Global Status Report on Non-communicable Diseases, the second in a series tracking worldwide progress in the preve...

Looking Back With Concern- Health 2014

A Snapshot of Global Health- 2014

• Between 2000 and 2012, measles deaths worldwide have been cut by almost 80% ??from 56...
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