Delhi doctors declare pollution emergency as smog chokes city
Levels of air-borne contaminants are off the scale in parts of Indias capital with results compared to smoking cigarettes 50 cigarettes a day A public health emergency situation has actually been stated by physicians in Delhi as air quality on the planet’s most contaminated capital city plunged to levels compared...
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UK disappointed as Robert Mugabe becomes WHO goodwill ambassador
UN body selects Zimbabwean despot to assist deal with non-communicable illness, regardless of alarming health crisis under his guideline The UK federal government has actually criticised the World Health Organization’s choice to select Robert Mugabe as a “goodwill ambassador”, calling the relocation “frustrating and unexpected”. A Downing Street representative stated...
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Trump EPA plan will roll back Obama standards on power plant emissions
Measures expected soon are part of promise to revive coal industry but ex-agency chief says: This administration has no intention of following the law The Trump administration is moving to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obamas attempt to slow global warming, seeking to ease restrictions on greenhouse gas...
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Fightback begins over Trump’s ‘illegal and irresponsible’ clean power repeal
New York chief law officer states he will take legal action against administration for ditching Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to minimize contamination from power plants The United States is set for a fresh fight over environment modification after the Trump administration relocated to destroy the nation’s main policy...
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When do the clocks go back? Key facts about the switch to GMT
Extra hour of sleep might assist secure versus cancer, diabetes, hypertension and tension Britons will have the ability to delight in an additional hour under the duvet– and gain health and cognitive bonus offers– on Sunday when the clocks return at 2am, inning accordance with sleep specialists. As daytime conserving...
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The joy of eggs how ‘nature’s multivitamin’ shook off the scare stories
Decades of dud healthy-eating guidance sent the humble egg into nutritional exile. But with new advice about runny yolks suggesting that salmonella in raw eggs is a thing of the past, its time to lick the cake bowl again Every morning for breakfast I eat a runny-yolked egg, often boiled,...
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Robert Mugabe removed as WHO goodwill ambassador after outcry
World Health Organization chief states he has actually paid attention to issues over visit of Zimbabwean president The World Health Organization has actually gotten rid of the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, as a goodwill ambassador following outrage amongst rights and donors groups at his visit. The WHO’s director basic, Tedros...
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Arthur Janov, psychologist behind ‘primal scream’ therapy, dies aged 93
Janov attained celeb with the concept that quelched youth injury results in state of mind conditions, dependency as well as epilepsy Arthur Janov, a psychotherapist whose “primal treatment” had celebs shrieking to launch their youth injuries and generated a successful book in the 1970s, has actually passed away. He was...
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Nobel prize for medicine awarded for insights into internal biological clock
825,000 reward shared in between American researchers Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young for deal with the biological rhythm of living organismsLive response to medication Nobel reward statement The Nobel reward in physiology or medication has actually been granted to a trio of American researchers for their...
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Che Guevara’s legacy still contentious 50 years after his death in Bolivia
The remote village where the Argentina-born revolutionary was executed is now a tourist attraction but the fortunes of his regional political heirs are on the wane On 3 November 1966, a middle-aged Uruguayan businessman named Adolfo Mena Gonzlez touched down in La Paz, Bolivia. He took a hotel suite overlooking...
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