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Involving parents as direct carers, including doing ward rounds and taking children’s temperature, improves weight gain of preterm infants in intensive care and reduces parent stress and anxiety. Parents whose newborns are receiving intensive care are...

Every year, 100,000 patients from Bangladesh travel to India to visit Narayana Health for treatment. With this innovative partnership, patients with planned treatment can start their consultation at Praava Health. Praava Health announces a partnership with...

Study analyzed health impact of a walk through the traffic-polluted Oxford Street in London, compared to Hyde Park.  Even short-term (2 hour) exposure to tiny particles of soot or dust found in traffic fumes on busy roads appears to thwart...

Almost half of participants achieved and maintained diabetes remission at one year without antidiabetic medications. Type 2 diabetes can be reversed following an intensive weight management programme, according to a randomised trial in adults who have...

The research, which collated evidence from more than 200 previous studies, also found coffee consumption was linked to lower risks of diabetes, liver disease, dementia, and some cancers. People who drink three to four cups of...

The study included nearly 14,000 two-parent families in the U.K. and Ireland. The parents completed depression questionnaires when the children were roughly 7–9 years old, and then the children completed depression assessments when they were about...

As a result of the development in Taiz, Saada and Hodeidah close to one million people are now deprived of clean water and sanitation. Three cities in Yemen have run out of clean water because a...

The new ACC/AHA guidelines — unveiled on Monday at the AHA’s annual meeting — define systolic blood pressure at or above 130 mm Hg as constituting hypertension. New guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and...

Punjab province, with a population of 110 million, is the largest province in Pakistan, representing more than half of the country’s population. The provincial government of Punjab in Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Novartis...

With rapidly rising numbers of people suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, the disease is taking a growing emotionally and financial toll as people live longer Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest...