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    • Loneliness as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, says Indian-origin US Surgeon General

      US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy urged employers to think carefully about their remote work policies, and health systems to provide training for doctors to recognise the health risks of loneliness.

    • Dr Vivek Murthy is US representative on WHO executive board

      Dr Murthy will serve in the new position alongside his continued duties as the Surgeon General, the White House said in a statement.

    • COVID second wave in India a tragedy, says Dr Vivek Murthy

      To a question on the current COVID crisis in India and if the US might face a similar situation, Murthy hoped that it never happens.

    • Stories coming out of India heart-wrenching, horrifying: US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

      Indian-American Murthy, who has become the US Surgeon General for the second time, has lost seven of his family members, both in the United States and India.

    • US Senate confirms Indian-American Vivek Murthy as surgeon general

      Vivek Murthy previously served as the US surgeon general under the Obama administration. He had been advising US President Joe Biden on the coronavirus pandemic.

    • US Surgeon General nominee Vivek Murthy says his first and foremost priority is to turn coronavirus pandemic around

      During his confirmation hearing by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Thursday, Murthy, 43, said that Americans are struggling due to the pandemic.

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