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Environmental scientist red flags arsenic and fluoride contamination in Gangetic-Brahmaputra plains

ISJ Bureau
N.B. Nair Kolkata (ISJ): An eminent environmental scientist at the Jadavpur University in West Bengal has warned, if an effective strategy is not adopted, arsenic...
Drugs & Medicines HEALTH Health News

Fund crunch slows down India’s indigenous ‘warm’ COVID-19 vaccine

ISJ Bureau
N.B. Nair Bengaluru (ISJ Exclusive):  The global pandemic of COVID-19, which broke out on 30 January 2020 in India took away the lives of 5,30,720...
HEALTH Health News

Researchers design treatment to protect bones during cancer therapy

ISJ Bureau
Washington (ISJ) – Every second cancer patients roughly receive radiation therapy — a treatment that uses electrically charged particles to kill cancer cells. Although radiotherapy beams...
HEALTH Health News

Population living with Type 1 Diabetes set to double by 2040: Study

ISJ Bureau
India among the countries with the highest estimated prevalence of Type 1 Diabetes N.B. Nair New Delhi (ISJ): An estimated 8.4 million people were living...
HEALTH Health News

Lancet study reveals massive global failures of COVID-19 response

ISJ Bureau
N.B. Nair New Delhi (ISJ): Widespread, global failures at multiple levels in the COVID-19 response led to millions of preventable deaths and reversed progress made...