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Ground beef sold at Walmart recalled over risk of severe E. Coli contamination

A Walmart Health center in Pinellas Park, Florida, US, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Walmart Inc. is abandoning its plan to build out a network of low-cost health clinics due to escalating costs and reimbursement challenges. Photographer: Thomas Simonetti/Bloomberg
Updated on May 03, 2024 08:24 am IST

Many Americans flying for holiday despite CDC pleas

In many cases, Americans are still crowding airports and boarding planes.
Updated on Nov 24, 2020 11:22 am IST

Rude food by Vir Sanghvi: Mean Mr. Mustard

For a garlic-fan, an oft-cracked joke is this line inspired from an episode of Friends: “There are other ingredients besides garlic”
Updated on Oct 25, 2020 07:43 am IST

Enhanced and revised pictorial health warnings on all tobacco products from Dec 1

All tobacco product packages shall have the specified health warnings exactly as prescribed in revised phase. (Representational Image)
Updated on Jul 24, 2020 10:20 am IST

Will salt shakers now carry tobacco-style health warning? Experts agree

Unhealthy diets are a leading cause of death globally and excess salt consumption is the biggest culprit, estimated to cause over 3 million deaths globally in 2017.
Updated on Sept 28, 2019 02:00 pm IST

Health warnings on each cigarette may help reduce smoking

The researchers found that smokers felt the innovative approach has the potential to discourage smoking among young people, those starting to smoke and non-smokers.
Updated on Aug 31, 2019 07:04 am IST

Alcohol bottles to carry health warnings from April 1

From April 1, all liquor bottles in the will have on their labels prominent statutory warnings, asking consumers to not drink and drive and outlining how alcohol consumption is harmful for health.
Published on Mar 25, 2019 11:46 pm IST

Alarming levels of toxic heavy metals found in Delhi-NCR’s air in November-December: Study

High levels of Barium — that is usually found in fireworks — were also detected in all the three samples that were collected a day before, on the day and a day after the festival of Diwali in Delhi.
Updated on Jan 18, 2019 01:44 pm IST

Tobacco products to have new pictorial warnings from September 1

About 275 million of India’s adult population use tobacco in some form or another.
Published on Aug 20, 2018 11:46 pm IST