Stronger focus on nutrition could save 3.7 million lives by 2025: WHO
Health services must integrate a stronger focus on ensuring optimum nutrition at each stage of a person’s life, according to
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Shift work increases diabetes and heart disease risk
Over 20 per cent of the population in industrial countries are engaged in shift work – in sectors such as
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Revealed: A hidden culprit in heart failure
An international research team led by scientists at the University of Alberta have pinpointed a hidden culprit that leads to
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India faces an ‘epidemic’ of heart disease: Report
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are expected to be the fastest growing chronic illnesses between 2007 and 2017, growing at 9.5% annually,
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Kids exposed to 9/11 ‘dust’ show signs of heart disease
Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a “cloud” of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan,
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