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Students of Gurukul School Of Arts on November 25 made paintings to create awareness about the rising cases of Pneumonia virus H9N2 and clusters of respiratory illness in children in northern China. Image for representational purpose only.

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A man carries a child as they leave a children’s hospital in Beijing on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Chinese officials say they did not detect any ‘unusual or novel diseases’ in the country, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday, following an official request by the U.N. health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

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Indian Immunologicals MD K.Anand Kumar and others at the 25th celebrations of Human Biologicals Institute (HBI).

Indian Immunologicals launches measles and rubella vaccine for children

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Tablets of Avigan, a drug approved as an anti-influenza drug.

Generic drugs to treat four rare diseases launched

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A woman carries a child as they leave a children’s hospital in Beijing, on November 24, 2023. Chinese officials say they did not detect any “unusual or novel diseases” in the country, the World Health Organization said, following an official request by the U.N. health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

Closely monitoring outbreak of H9N2, clusters of respiratory illness in children in China, says Health Ministry

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The ‘high’ of dopamine means the body wants that feeling again and again. Like a bottomless glass of cola that keeps getting refilled.

Dopamine on the brain

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Children and their parents wait at an outpatient area at a children hospital in Beijing on November 23, 2023.

China reports no unusual, novel pathogens in respiratory illness surge: WHO

A loss or distortion of the sense of smell can be extremely damaging psychologically.

A small triumph over a big sensory deficit post COVID-19

Strokes need specialist intervention after the attack and during rehabilitation.

There is life after a stroke, with proper rehabilitative therapy

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