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TN needs road map for senior citizens’ welfare

Sometime in 2023, India is expected to be formally declared the world’s most populous country, overtaking China. This certain development underscored by the UN report on World Population Prospects 2022 holds high significance for India, given the varied experiences it has had with the uneven...

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Senior Citizens
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Only healthy lifestyle, not fad diets, aid weight loss

Discussions about weight loss tend to be more about fads rather than healthy habits. There is a lot of information available online about how to maintain your body mass index (BMI) and keep fit. But there is much more misinformation spread by fitness influencers and lapped up by fitness freaks....

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weight loss
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Shedding hair? Shed worries instead, prevent hair fall

One becomes aware of hair fall as a problem only when one combs one's hair. If it’s only 50 to 100 strands of hair, it’s not seen as normal, but one realises the seriousness of hair fall only when there seems to be hardly any hair growing back in the area that has lost quite a lot of hair. Hair...

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Hair fall
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Psychologist seeks blanket ban on online games

In this episode of Inmathi.com’s ‘Vaer Kaanal’ (Finding Roots) programme — where a problem is taken up and discussed threadbare with an expert — we go into one of the most troubling features of digital life, namely games and gambling, with Dr Sundari K P, a psychologist, practising for the past...

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Online games
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Hospitals too can be hotspots of infections

Inmathi.com has launched a new column called ‘VaerKaanal’ (Finding the Roots) in which a problem is taken up and discussed in-depth with an expert to understand the roots of the issue. In this first episode of ‘VaerKaanal’ vascular surgeon J. Amolarpavanathan explains the growing global...

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