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India's Fertility Rate Decreases, Family Planning Onus Still On Women

The phase 2 data of the NFHS-5 for 14 states and union territories shows that India's fertility rate fell to 2.0 from...

25 Nov 2021 10:41 AM GMT

World

Fake Claims On High Jumps Curing Illnesses In Elderly People Surface...

The claims suggest that the exercise cure illnesses related to urination in elderly people.

12 Nov 2021 10:17 AM GMT

Fact Check

Coughing As CPR For Heart Attacks? Message Peddles False Information

CPR is performed only during cardiac arrests and not heart attacks and are normally performed by another person on the...

1 Nov 2021 1:54 PM GMT

Health

India TB Cases Reporting Down By 41%, Highest Globally: WHO

Due to COVID-19 affecting regular TB services, TB deaths rose for the first time in a decade reversing all the work that ...

15 Oct 2021 11:19 AM GMT

World

Fact Check: Vinegar Fumes Do Not Help Treat Covid-19 Symptoms

Health experts say the claim is “baseless” and the method “can be potentially harmful, both directly and indirectly”.

13 Oct 2021 12:38 PM GMT

World

Iced Water Doesn't Cause Fat In Stomach As Claimed In This Viral Post

Facebook and Twitter posts have long warned that drinking iced water can increase fat in the stomach. The claim is...

7 Oct 2021 2:00 PM GMT

Decode

An Eccentric Engineer Who Helped Doctors See Inside a Living Skull

The first computed tomography image – a CT scan – of the human brain was made 50 years ago, on October 1, 1971.

6 Oct 2021 6:19 AM GMT

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Antibiotics Not a Treatment for Covid-19, Experts Warn of Side-effects

A video of a man claiming that the antibiotic amoxicillin is an effective treatment for Covid-19 has been viewed...

5 Oct 2021 12:45 PM GMT

Explainers

Our Bright Cities Are Causing Light Pollution. Should We Be Worried?

58.5 percent population in India are exposed to light pollution. In absence of any law, what does the future hold?

5 Oct 2021 12:29 PM GMT

Explainers

Over 18 Million Children At Risk From Exposure To Toxic E-waste: WHO

A WHO report states that children and pregnant women are most at risk due to exposure to toxic e-waste at dumpsites

17 Jun 2021 1:58 PM GMT

Explainers

Tested Negative, But Showing COVID-19 Symptoms? What You Should Know

A false negative is when the Covid-19 virus does not show up in the tests even though the person has contracted it.

30 April 2021 10:53 AM GMT

World

Myth About Apricot Seeds From Pakistan's Hunza Valley Curing Cancer...

The claim about Hunza Valley people living 'without cancer' was debunked decades ago by researchers.

29 April 2021 11:00 AM GMT