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Asthma is a complex disease marked by the inflammation of the respiratory tract leading to breathing difficulty. The condition is heterogeneous in its clinical course and in its response ...
Respiratory tract infections that lead to wheezing in children are often a result of viral infection and do not warrant the use of antibiotics. Adding an antibiotic to the treatment regi...
A recent meta-analysis indicated strong association between thyroid auto-antibodies, and miscarriage and pre-term birth. Miscarriage (the loss of a pregnancy before 24 weeks of gestation) ...
Here’s one more reason to strive hard to win pure air to breathe in. Air pollution triggers more heart attacks than most other risk factors, suggests study. It is well known that ...
The prevalence and severity of asthma, one of the common chronic childhood illnesses is on the rise. Its prevalence has substantially increased worldwide, particularly in pre-school childre...
Civil society in India has strongly condemned the recent decision of the Group of Ministers (GOM) in India to defer the implementation of pictorial health warnings on tobacco product package...
May 31, 2008 ‘Ban marketing and advertisements of tobacco products for a tobacco-free-youth’ ‘Tobacco-free-youth’ is a befitting theme for the anti-tobacco initiatives of World No...
World Asthma Day is celebrated annually on the first Tuesday of May each year. This year, it falls on the sixth of May. This annual event and its initiatives this year seek to create awarene...
“When the goal is in sight, all your physical pain disappears, and your mental determination shall carry you the rest of the way” - Trey Patty Life is short they say and it can only ge...
Creating awareness about TB forms the backbone of the efforts taken to eradicate this dreadful disease. It is a clause of the DOTS programme, and is mostly done through Anganwadis and other ...
24th March 2008 World TB day is celebrated each year to commemorate the day, in 1882, when Robert Koch discovered M.tuberculosis, the TB bacterium. The symptoms of tuberculosis are cou...
'Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away'. Urbanization today is giving us more than our fill of these moments. The...
Tobacco is perhaps the most common addiction all over the world, and a leading carcinogen producer. Alarmed by the devastating impact of tobacco in its various forms on human health, t...
Each year the last day of May is celebrated as the ‘World No Tobacco Day’ . It is sponsored annually by the World Health Organization to ‘wag a warning finger’ at the ‘excesses’, in terms ...
Moses Maimonides the physician to the Islamic King Saladin in 1150AD said about Asthma – ''I have no magic cure to report, all I have in mind is a rational conduct of life.'' ...
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