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The risk is most acute for residents of the Khumbu region, which hosts a majority of the country’s glaciers and has settlement areas close...

On the current trajectory, most people who need them will not be able to get them any time soon, because high prices and monopolies...

A full health and economic fallout, and cascading effects from the current heat wave will take months to determine, including excess deaths, hospitalisations, lost...

Vaccination after infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is associated with a decrease in the likelihood of long COVID symptoms, finds a...

Pollution is the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature deaths, according to the Lancet commission on pollution and health and is...

A nanotech imaging device, tiny enough to fit on a smartphone camera lens, has the potential to make the diagnosis of certain diseases accessible...

India could experience further unprecedented and prolonged heatwaves, extreme weathers, increased hospitalizations even leading up to fatalities and irreparable damage to agriculture and wildlife...

Researchers say that severe inflammation during hospitalization for COVID-19 increases risk of death within one year from seeming recovery by 61 per cent. This...