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Budget 2025: Insurers and experts hail game changing moves
The FDI limit being raised from 74% to 100% will prove to be a...
Union Budget 2025-26: Reshaping Indian insurance landscape
Tapan Singhel, MD&CEO, Bajaj General Insurance& Chairman,...
Indonesia’s parliament approves changes to healthcare laws amid protests
The new laws will make it easier for foreign doctors to practise in Indonesia, enable patients to file criminal complaints against medical workers for malpractice and remove a requirement for the state to allocate 5% of its budget to the health sector, a...
Gujarat govt launches revamped PMJAY-MA scheme with Rs 10 lakh health cover
Gujarat Health Minister Rushikesh Patel said people who have Ayushman cards can undergo complex surgeries, treatments and transplants of kidney, heart, liver and even cochlear implants in the limit of Rs 10 lakh As per the release, 2,027 state-run hospitals, 803...
India registers remarkable reduction in poverty with 415 million people coming out of it in 15 years: UN
According to the 2023 release, 1.1 billion out of 6.1 billion people (just over 18 per cent) live in acute multidimensional poverty across 110 countries. Sub-Saharan Africa (534 million) and South Asia (389 million) are home to approximately five out of every six poor...
India to be the 6th largest insurance market by 2032, life market more promising than non-life: Swiss Re report
With $131 billion of total premium in 2022, currently, India is the 10th largest market in the world where US, China and UK are the top three largest markets India's life insurance premium market, with a premium of $100 billion, that has grown by 8.2 per cent in 2022...
Deep sleep found to be key to regulating blood sugar
The researcher said that being a modifiable lifestyle factor, sleep could be used in high blood sugar and Type 2 diabetes treatment Another study says exercise has a positive effect on blood sugar levels in people with Type 2 diabetes. An increased responsiveness of...
Evidence of superbug found in Delhi’s stray dogs
"Dogs are common pets. Even though C. auris was only found in stray dogs in this study, there are many stray dogs in many parts of the world. These dogs could act as transmission vehicles for C. auris to reach other animals and and humans," said Jianping Xu, a...
UP Govt to install defibrillators in offices, malls for patients with cardiac problems
Sudden cardiac arrest refers to the sudden cessation of heartbeats. In India, approximately 7 lakh deaths occur annually due to cardiac arrest. In emergency situations, people are unable to provide immediate assistance to the patient, and by the time medical help...
Govt plans to hire agency to estimate actual size of digital economy
MeitY had earlier published a report titled 'India's Trillion Dollar Digital Opportunity' which identifies 30 digital themes ranging from IT infrastructure, software capabilities and healthcare education to next-generation financial services New Delhi: The government...
Govt to spend Rs 64,000 cr to set up critical care units in country’s every district: Mandaviya
The aim is to invest an average Rs 100 crore in each of the 750 districts in the next four years under the National Health Infrastructure Mission, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said Raipur: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday said the...
WHO and UNICEF launch manual on 6 steps to build infodemic insights report
“When people are confused or overwhelmed with information, it can be difficult to know where to turn to for credible health information and infodemic insights can provide evidence-based recommendations on how to address such challenges, and do it quickly when time is...