Health Ministry releases draft National Pharmacy Commission Bill

The proposed bill aims to provide for a pharmacy education system that improves access to quality and affordable pharmacy or pharmaceutical education, ensures availability of adequate and high-quality pharmacy professionals in all parts of the country, promotes equitable and universal healthcare, and makes services of pharmacy professionals accessible to all citizens.

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Air pollution, changing weather spurs surge in respiratory & skin ailments

Health experts attribute the deteriorating air quality, coupled with significant variations in night and day temperatures, to an environment conducive for the growth of viruses and bacteria, commonly associated with various health problems.

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India records 26 fresh COVID-19 cases, active caseload at 172

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease has risen to 4,44,68,069 (4.44 crore) while the national recovery rate is at 98.81 per cent, according to the health ministry website.

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The flu is soaring in seven US states and rising in others, health officials say

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted new flu data on Friday, showing very high activity last week in Louisiana, and high activity in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico and South Carolina. It was also high in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory where health officials declared an influenza epidemic earlier this month.

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Researchers find AI can be used to generate volumes of misleading content on critical health topics, call for vigilance

The researchers investigated OpenAI's GPT Playground, a large language model (LLM), for its capacity to facilitate the generation of large volumes of health-related disinformation. The LLM is an AI algorithm trained on massive textual datasets and thus, is capable of recognising, translating, predicting and generating textual content, which are known as natural language processing tasks.

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Chronic sleep deprivation raises insulin resistance in women: Study

The National Institutes of Health financed study, published in Diabetes Care, highlight the importance of getting enough sleep in lowering one's chance of developing type 2 diabetes, which occurs when the body fails to effectively use a critical hormone, insulin, to maintain appropriate blood sugar levels.

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Firecrackers make Delhi gasp for air, people line up at OPDs

GC Khilnani, the chairman of PSRI Institute of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine who is also member of the technical advisory group of WHO Global Air Pollution and Health, said: “The impact of air pollution and increase in PM 2.5 due to fire crackers is different due to the contents in the particles. Emission from burning firecrackers have barium, potassium, sulphur along with colouring agents such as aluminium, lithium, copper, strontium and others.”

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