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Amazon India to provide free health checks-ups to over 80k delivery partners
Announcing the expansion blueprint of the initiative, the company...
IRDAI approves Niva Bupa’s Krishnan Ramachandran 5-yr extension as CEO
Niva Bupa Health Insurance has received regulatory approval from...
How working night shifts messes up appetite and food habits, study reveals
New Delhi: The disruption in the body’s biological clock, or circadian misalignment, brought about by working night shifts affects the hormones which regulating appetite, the team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, UK, said Scientists reveal how working...
GI Council ropes in health insurance expert to implement 100% cashless payment system
Segar Sampathkumar, director, Health Insurance, GI Council Such a system, which currently serves 52 per cent of health policies, will create a seamless technological mechanism for all the insurers to settle policy holders’ claims cashless without any manual...
Climate change may make India and the Indus Valley too hot for up to 2.2 billion: Study
Results of the study indicate that if global temperatures increase by 2 C above pre-industrial levels, the 2.2 billion residents of Pakistan and India’s Indus River Valley, the one billion people living in eastern China and the 800 million residents of sub-Saharan...
Stroke could cause nearly 10 million deaths annually by 2050: Lancet study
The report recommended establishing cost-effective surveillance systems for precise epidemiological stroke data to guide prevention and treatment Strokes, a highly preventable and treatable condition, could lead to nearly 10 million deaths annually by 2050, primarily...
California Governor signs bill expanding conservatorship law
The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless. Local government said their hands are tied if a person refuses to receive help under existing...
netreach.co.in – One Stop Website for Sexual Healthcare in India
The primary objective of NETREACH is to accelerate the national HIV response in India by targeting the first 95 goals set by the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP). It runs with support from India HIV/AIDS Alliance and with guidance from the National AIDS Control...
Use of digital technology in mental health a force multiplier: Mandaviya
''Mental health is a universal human right. The use of technology in mental health care is a force multiplier. The Tele Manas Seva, launched last year on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, has counselled more than 3,50,000 people till date and currently provides...
Mental health should be recognised as basic right: Kerala CM
Pinarayi Vijayan,Chief Minister,Kerala It is not merely the absence of mental disorders but a positive state of mental and emotional well-being. This definition aligns with the broader conception of human rights as not only freedoms from harm but freedoms to lead a...
INSIGHT-Down syndrome families’ fight for access to Alzheimer’s trials, treatments
Down syndrome affects 400,000 people in the United States and more than 6 million globally. When Lianor da Cunha Hillerstrom of Lexington, Massachusetts, learned her now 9-year-old son Oskar had Down syndrome, she was concerned but not panicked. As a child, Lianor...
80 per cent Indians with mental health issues don’t seek treatment, say doctors
'The treatment cost is quite high in the private sector while at government setups there is a lot of rush and people do not want to go through that inconvenience,'' said Asthana who was the chief coordinator of the mental health festival organised recently by Mental...