Researchers from the Oral Health Sciences Centre (OHSC), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, recently published a study on the online availability of herbal hookahs/ cigarettes/bidis, in an international peer-review journal — Tobacco Control. This study is one of the pioneering researches on herbal smoking products and is rapidly gaining the attention […]
American poet Louise Gluck won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. According to the 7-member Nobel Committee, the Prize was given to Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Born in New York in 1943, Glück is a professor of English at Yale University. She made […]
World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said that the Omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading at a rate not seen with any previous variant. In a media briefing, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director general of WHO, said, “77 countries have now reported cases of Omicron, and the reality is that Omicron is probably in most countries, […]