Health

Smoke signals: Most of the highest polluted cities are in India
I do: The number of marriages rose in the latest national report
I Don't: Japanese marriage rates are plummeting
Quarters pounded: Beyond Meat is trying everything to reverse a sales slump
Smaller doses: Pfizer's finances aren't what they were
Medical bills: Healthcare is getting costlier
Stubbed out: British American Tobacco just booked a $31.5bn write-off
The gap: The female-male life expectancy gap has widened
Odds and evens: New Delhi is exploring every fix for its air pollution problem
Covid catchup: The latest data as hospitalizations rise
Vegging out: Vegetarianism & veganism have lost some allure, but veganuary continues to rise
New ground for Novo: Denmark's largest company just keeps getting bigger
Sick days: How Americans feel after the illest day of the year yesterday
Maternal mortality: The latest figures are cause for concern
Trending: Will weight loss drugs be another fading fad?
Weighting game: America's obesity rate is much higher than 6 decades ago
Too sweet: America's sugar consumption has fallen
Yo-Yo: Weight Watchers is shedding subscribers
Pharmacy footprint: CVS is eyeing another deal
Resolute: The goals Americans are taking into 2023.
Flu: Influenza season is hitting earlier this year
Extreme poverty: The pandemic plunged millions below the $2.15 a day threshold
Nobel efforts: Sequencing human genomes is getting cheaper
Medication abortions: The majority of abortions are not surgical
Babies: The birth rate in the US went up last year
Baby formula: A major shortage is sweeping the US
Emergencies only: When do kids get their first smartphone?
Covid in Hong Kong: After 2+ years, their zero-Covid policy has been broken
Cheerleading gets a bad rap: Is it actually that dangerous?
Pfizer's big year
US road traffic fatalities are rising again
Myopia: Short-sightedness is rising, and the pandemic likely didn't help
Omicron: Early evidence from the UK is the silver lining in a dark cloud of cases
SAD: Days are shorter and darker now — and that can hurt our mental health
Eye of the storm: Europe is once again at the center of the COVID pandemic
Peloton crash: Home fitness company Peloton is in trouble
Thank you for smoking: Sales of cigarettes rose last year, for the first time in 20 years
Poverty rates in 2020: The data tells a mixed story for those who are most vulnerable
Diet trends: The rise and fall of "hot diets" over the last 15+ years
Weight Watchers: The iconic company is struggling a bit
Delta variant: How transmissible is the COVID variant spreading in the UK and elsewhere?
Big tobacco: Smoking is still a truly enormous industry... and it's still growing?
State of the pandemic: Where are we vs. the peak? We check the latest data on 6 key regions
US vaccinations: The vaccination rate in the US is dropping
China has a new population problem
COVID in India: Cases are exploding in the world's second most populous country
US vaccine programme: The US vaccination drive has accelerated dramatically
Vaccine scepticism: Anti-vaccine sentiment may be softening as vaccine roll-outs gather pace
Vaccines: Data from the UK adds to the mounting evidence from around the world: the vaccines are working
Vaccine update: How long until we've administered enough?
Seasonal flu: How cases of flu have almost disappeared
The vaccination race: Doses are being administered, but which country is out in front?
Vaccine sceptics: With vaccines seemingly just around the corner which countries first need to convince their populations they are safe?
Vaccine effectiveness: How do the COVID-19 vaccines compare to vaccines for other diseases?
Sweden: Are more relaxed measures working?
Lockdown: How are people coping based on data from Google?
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