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ICMR should study more about air pollution suggest ways to handle ill-effects Par Panel
"The committee, therefore, feels that it is high time for India to...
Age criterion for Ayushman Vay Vandana Cards should be rationalised to 60 years Parl panel
The panel recommended that the number of packages/procedures...
Only 5% of India’s coal power plants meet sulphur dioxide emission norms: CSE
The Union environment ministry had specified the emission norms for coal-based power plants in December 2015. However, these have been diluted for various parameters, and deadlines have been repeatedly extended New Delhi: Even after multiple extensions, only 5 per...
More positive outcomes when elders are treated locally: Study
"Intermediate care units are the newest trend in health policy, and Norway is way ahead of the curve in this regard," says Pal Erling Martinussen, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)...
Over 1.3 billion people globally to have diabetes by 2050, finds study
Addressing racism and economic inequality will be important for controlling diabetes, a group of researchers from the US, Africa, India and Australia, wrote in a separate article in the same journal. People in low- and middle-income countries are more likely to suffer...
Delta variant, a warning the COVID-19 virus is getting ‘fitter and faster’
Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus,Director-General, WHO Almost 4 million cases worldwide were reported last week to WHO and the agency expects the total number of cases to pass 200 million, in the next two weeks. "And we know this is an underestimate", underscored...
InLife Health Care partners with Munich Re HealthTech
With SMAART, IHC executives will be able to have detailed information about key performance indicators of the business, including loss ratio, ultimate loss ratio, burning costs, incurred claims and ultimate claims Athens: Munich Re HealthTech S.A. today announced that...
Exercise may cause strokes in persons who have blocked arteries: Study
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur found that an elevated heart rate can induce a stroke in patients with highly blocked carotid arteries Contrastingly, for healthy patients and those with only slightly blocked arteries, exercise is...
FSSAI warns HP nutraceutical firms; launches drive to curb menace of spurious products
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken cognisance of reports claiming that an industrial area in Himachal Pradesh has become a hub for producing spurious vitamins, syrups, and drugs in the name of food supplements, and sent notices to the Health...
Zero tolerance on spurious medicines, 71 firms issued notices: Mandaviya on cough syrup row
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said, ''We have conducted risk-based analysis at more than 125 companies and our squads have visited their facilities. Of these, 71 companies have been served show-cause notices and 18 have been given closure notices.'' New...
WHO says toxic syrup risk ‘ongoing’, more countries hit
Rutendo Kuwana, the WHO team lead for incidents with substandard and falsified medicines, declined to name the six new countries the agency is working with, while investigations are still underway Unscrupulous actors sometimes substitute propylene glycol with toxic...
IMA calls for protection of health workers
"This is the need of the hour. How can a doctor treat a critical patient under stress and under threat? The nation is not realising how serious this issue is. After this, no good doctor will agree to treat a serious patient because they will feel threatened," said Dr...