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Health & Wellness News tagged with India

Vision India 2020: A Complete Ban on Tobacco Is Need of the Hour
Health & Wellness  (tags: Tobacco, India, Health, Fitness, Disease )

Jollygirl
- 162 days ago - breakingnewsonline.net
The bottom line is clear that reducing tobacco use is good for health, and makes sound economic sense. If we want to see India as a developed country by 2020, then we need to put a complete ban on the use of tobacco.
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Families Gradually Include Women in Business Plans
Health & Wellness  (tags: Women, world, freedoms, goodnews, humanrights, interesting, india, news, society, activists, children, culture, environment, family, ethics, health, government, interesting, media, religion, rights, world, marketing, investing, finance, energy, ethics, lab )

Monica
- 261 days ago - economictimes.indiatimes.com
While cultural and sociological traditions have dictated the role of women in a big way, in Indian business families, women are increasingly challenging the stereotype
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Hopes Jabs Will Stem Growth of 'Wolf Boy' Pruthviraj Patil's Coat - India/USA
Health & Wellness  (tags: india, usa, child, boy, wolf, rare, health )

Chrissy
- 367 days ago - news.com.au
IT'S not easy being a "wolf boy" - but American scientists are confident they've finally found the silver bullet that can cure one. Pruthviraj Patil, 11, suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as hypertrichosis - or "werewolf syndrome" - which causes
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'AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories From India'
Health & Wellness  (tags: AIDS, India )

Kristi
- 373 days ago - latimes.com
The country takes a back seat to Africa when it comes to world awareness of the disease. Essayists reveal a culture of repression and shame.
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India Is Home to the Largest Number of AIDS Orphans in the World
Health & Wellness  (tags: Aids orphans, India, children, abuse, drugs, environment, risks, protection, medicine, prevention, treatment, warning, death, disease )

Elderberr
- 384 days ago - infochangeindia.org
More alarming are estimates that suggest that the city has over 30,000 AIDS orphans. Parentless and homeless, civil society organisations working in Vijayawada say many of these children have been forced to drop out of school and beg on the streets.
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Malnutrition Getting Worse in India
Health & Wellness  (tags: India, Malnutrition, Food prices, Human Rights, Children )

Ben
- 529 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Lying on a bed is a tiny malnourished child. Her limbs wasted, her stomach bloated, her hair thinning and falling out. Her name is Roshni. You might think we are somewhere in Africa. But this is the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh
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Indians More Prone to HIV-AIDS Than Others, Says Study
Health & Wellness  (tags: AIDS/HIV, genetics, study, India, Indians, genetic protection, genetic profile, population, news, health, protection, prevention )

Dima
- 577 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
A monumental study on genetic profile of the country's population has revealed that majority of Indian do not have natural protection against HIV/AIDS. The known protective marker - rs333 - in the CCRS gene is virtually absent in the Indian population.
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Extinction Threat to Country Chicken
Health & Wellness  (tags: epidemic, bird flu, extinction, chicken, chickens, culling, disease, disease spread, india, asia )

Shandril
- 618 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
The indiscriminate culling of country chickens in the wake of the bird flu outbreak in the state might soon lead to their disappearance or even extinction, warn scientists and experts.
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Fresh Bird Flu Cases Reported in India
Health & Wellness  (tags: india, bird flu, illness, health, warning, news, prevention )

John
- 625 days ago - physorg.com
Two villages in an eastern Indian state that appeared to have brought a widespread outbreak of bird flu under control last month have reported fresh cases of the disease, officials said Sunday.
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Hunt for 'Dr Horror' After Police Close Clinic in Kidney Swaps Raid - India
Health & Wellness  (tags: india, doctor, kidney, transplant, donors, illegal, payment )

Chrissy
- 666 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
India has launched an international hunt for a doctor accused of running an illegal clinic that duped between 500 and 600 poor labourers into selling their kidneys and then peddled them to foreign clients.
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ALTERNATIVE HEALTH: Naturopathy - Revolutionary Approach to Wellness!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health alternatives, naturopathy, health conditions, gentle nautural substances, therapies, healing body, nutrition, healing traditions, China, Greece, India, ancient sciences )

ON VACATI
- 802 days ago - health.discovery.com
Naturopathy -- a science that treats health conditions by using gentle, natural substances and therapies that rely upon the body's innate ability to heal itself...awareness about the relationship between nutrition, lifestyle & disease made it popular.
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Cholera-Hit Indians 'Face Hunger'
Health & Wellness  (tags: India, Orissa, cholera, diarrhoea, outbreak, hunger, starvation )

Ingeborg
- 810 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Villagers are facing starvation in a tribal area of eastern India where an outbreak of cholera has killed scores of people in recent weeks. The BBC visited affected districts in Orissa state and found people with no food, surviving on leaves.
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Sex-Trafficking Linked to Higher HIV Rates
Health & Wellness  (tags: India, sex-trafficking, HIV, Harvard )

Pretty
- 843 days ago - upi.com
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Harvard researchers say they've found a high rate of HIV infection among young girls from Nepal who were sex-trafficked to India.
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