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News Hour: Children exposed to a common type of antidepressant in the womb may be at an increased risk of complications soon after birth and years later, according to two new studies. One study suggests newborns...

News Hour: The Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health will bring together health and environment ministers and high-level representatives of Member States in the WHO European Region, partner organizations, academia and civil society. Member States...

News Hour: The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and...

News Hour: The British Council in partnership with Standard Chartered bank has celebrated World Sight Day 2016 recently at British Council, Fuller Road office. World Sight Day is a special annual day of awareness that is...

News Hour: Telenor Health, the healthcare subsidiary of global telecoms and technology company Telenor Group, conducted a nationwide survey of health attitudes and behaviors in Bangladesh. The survey was released on October 18 at a roundtable...

News Hour: Young people attending mental health services have unmet sexual health needs, as shown by low rates of contraception and high rates of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The study is by Dr...

News Hour: International Early Psychosis Association (IEPA) meeting in Milan, Italy (20-22 October) adds to accumulating evidence that high-potency cannabis in associated with an increased risk of users becoming dependent on cannabis. The analysis is by...

News Hour: Levels of a certain type of the Alzheimer’s disease-related tau protein are higher in patients aged 18 years and under suffering early onset psychosis (EOP). The study is by Dr Mathias Lundberg and Dr...

News Hour: Two new papers published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes ) reveal the importance of both the amount and timing of physical activity in reducing the risk...

News Hour: China’s recently introduced universal two-child policy is predicted to have a relatively small effect on population growth, with a likely peak of 1.45 billion in 2029, compared to 1.4 billion in 2023 if the...