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El Nino rains intensify record dengue outbreak in Peru

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How long-term stress impacts the intestine 

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11% of India’s population is diabetic while 15.3% could be pre-diabetic, says study

Around 15.4% of the urban population and 15.2% of rural India are in the pre-diabetic stage. Image for representation purpose only.

India looks at devising its own standards to assess socio-economic progress

India is now actively discussing redrawing parameters to cater and accommodate its national diversity and local anthropometric measurements, and has used childhood stunting, female labour force participation rate and life expectancy at birth to highlight the alleged anomalies. File
While some health activists say that international data parameters must be seen as aspirational, others have welcomed the change
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Alzheimer's drug gets FDA panel's backing, setting the stage for broader use

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Piped potable water across India will avert 4,00,000 diarrhoea deaths, finds WHO

India logged 31 million new diabetes patients in 2019-21: study

The prevalence of diabetes in India stands at 11.4%, while 35.5% of Indians suffer from hypertension, additionally abdominal obesity stands at 40% across the population and female abdominal obesity is 50%.

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