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Former WHO Chief Scientist underlines healthy eating habits
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Former WHO Chief Scientist underlines healthy eating habits

July 5, 2023

Mysore/Mysuru: During her presentation on Food Systems for Equitable and Sustainable Health, former World Health Organisation (WHO) Chief Scientist and Chairperson of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation Dr. Sowmya Swaminathan underlined the importance of policy, regulations and behaviour change in preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs). “One key aspect is the need for nutrition literacy in schools to…

Delta Plus strain calls for urgent measures, vaccination: WHO Rep
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Delta Plus strain calls for urgent measures, vaccination: WHO Rep

June 28, 2021

Moscow: Vaccination and safety measures such as wearing face masks are essential when it comes to fighting the Delta Plus Coronavirus variant, World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative to Russia, Melita Vujnovic said. “Vaccination plus masks, because just a vaccine is not enough with ‘Delta.’ We need to make an effort over a short period of…

Accelerate vaccination for COVID-19: WHO
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Accelerate vaccination for COVID-19: WHO

June 21, 2021

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday called upon countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to accelerate the vaccination for COVID-19 in order to prevent another surge. “We need to continuously strengthen our efforts to test, trace and isolate. Societal interventions such as physical distancing, hand hygiene and proper wearing of masks need…

AIISH gets World Hearing Forum Membership
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AIISH gets World Hearing Forum Membership

April 24, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: Adding one more feather to its cap, the city’s All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) has earned the recognition of World Health Organisation (WHO). AIISH has bagged the Certificate of Membership of World Hearing Forum coming under WHO. With this honour, AIISH has joined the list of a very few Indian Institutions…

World Hearing Day today
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World Hearing Day today

March 3, 2021

World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Mar. 3 as World Hearing Day. The theme of World Hearing Day-2021 is ‘Hearing Care for all! Screen, Rehabilitate, Communicate.’ To mark this occasion, here we publish two articles written by experts         covering various facets of hearing, its myths and facts.  —Ed The Myths and…

World Health Day on Apr. 7
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World Health Day on Apr. 7

April 3, 2017

Depression – Let’s Talk Lifestyle By Dr. B.R. Pai Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his latest Mann Ki Baat, highlighting the scourge of depression has given a clarion call for ending its suppression. The call hasn’t come a day sooner. World Health Organisation (WHO) characterising depression as one of the most disabling of disorders, has…

Sickness stumps sickness-care
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Sickness stumps sickness-care

February 17, 2017

Global rating of India’s public health scenario continues to be at the lower rung of the scale being regularly published by different agencies, including the World Health Organisation. One is at a loss to match the low rating of the land’s performance in healthcare with the other two reported facts namely a) India is on…

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