Global health

After growing rapidly from 2000 to 2010, global health funding remained stagnant between 2010 and 2014, amounting to $35.9 billion in 2014, says a study.

A global health body today underlined the need for spreading awareness about sepsis, saying it kills more people than breast or prostrate cancer combined and awareness about it in the country is "quite low".

Life expectancy worldwide has jumped by a decade since 1980, rising in 2015 to 69 years for men and nearly 75 for women, according to a comprehensive overview of global health released Thursday.

An online survey conducted by ICICI Lombard shows the around 65% youth in India between the age group of 22 to 25 show early signs of depression.

As the number of youth suffering from osteorthritis continues to surge globally, health experts on Wednesday said that wrong postures for long durations was the biggest contributor to the disease.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a global health and education charity set up by the Microsoft founder and his wife, has set a target of eradicating malaria by 2040.

The 'Global Health Report on Alcohol and Health 2014', released by the World Health Organization, shows country profiles of alcohol consumption for each of its member states. It states that about less than half of ...

According to the report published in the Lancet Global Health, one billion deaths from smoking and other forms of tobacco use are expected by the end of this century if efforts to tackle tobacco use ...

Practice basic hygiene and sanitation to avoid falling prey to bacterial viral invasion.

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