As many as one in five people globally have underlying medical conditions that put them at an increased risk of severe COVID-19, according to a study which may help develop strategies to shield the most vulnerable individuals.
Medial journal The Lancet issued a correction on a large observational study that linked use of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine with increased death risk in Covid-19 patients, after more than 100 scientists and medical professionals raised questions about integrity of data analysed in the study.
Treatment for COVID-19 with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, either with or without the antibiotic azithromycin, offers no benefit for COVID-19 patients, according to a large observational study.
Indoor air pollution caused 1.24 lakh premature deaths in India in 2015, a report published in Lancet has said.
The study published in The Lancet journal found that 97 million of the world's moderately or severely underweight children and adolescents lived in India in 2016.
Between 2000 and 2015, 29 million children below five died of different causes in India, data by the United Nations show.
More than 100,000 under-five children died due to diarrhoea in 2015 in India and it still continues to be a hotbed of diarrhoeal deaths in the world
London: Not just harming their heart and brain, alcohol dependency may also be behind several forms of cancers among heavy drinkers in low-income countries likeIndia, researchers have warned.The new study of alcohol use in countries
Washington: Total Sanitation Campaign - the world's largest sanitation initiative in India - provided almost 25,000 individuals in 100 rural villages in Odisha access to toilets but it did not reduce exposure to faecal pathogens
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