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Rare diseases India foundation to form Hunter’s Alliance
``The financial strain on families affected by Hunter's Disease is...
Lenders to Reliance Capital accuse IIHL of using delaying tactics
According to sources, lenders claimed that IIHL's move to seek...
Bajaj Allianz Gen launches product to provide global health insurance coverage
Tapan Singhel, MD and CEO at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Global Health Care product offers one of the widest sum insured ranges available in the Indian market which starts from Rs 37.50 lakh to Rs 3.75 crore (USD 1,00,000 to USD 10,00,000) Mumbai: Bajaj Allianz...
Digital ads dominate FY22, ASCI takes help of AI-based tracking system
In this, the education sector remains the single largest violative sector, followed by health care and personal care The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) on Tuesday said it has set up a digital tracking system and is using Artificial Intelligence-based...
Make cancer notifiable disease, waive GST on drugs, check radiation therapy cost: Par panel to govt
According to various health organisations, including the World Health Organization, cancer cases are gradually rising in India and it is one of the leading causes of death, with 7.84 lakh fatalities recorded in 2018, and 13.92 lakh cases reported in 2020 At the...
At flooded cancer hospital in northeast India, chemotherapy given on the road outside
Located in the Barak valley in Assam state, the 150-bed Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre has been inundated by for days, and the situation has become so dire that its administrators have requested life-jackets and an inflatable raft to transport patients and...
NITI pegs India’s gig workforce at 2.35 cr by FY30; pitches for social security measures
According to the report, it is estimated that in 2020-21, 77 lakh workers were engaged in the gig economy and they constituted 2.6 percent of the nonagricultural workforce or 1.5 percent of the total workforce in India New Delhi: India's gig workforce is expected to...
Covid patients at higher risk of serious neurodegenerative disorders: Study
''More than two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the precise nature and evolution of the effects of COVID-19 on neurological disorders remained uncharacterized,'' Pardis Zarifkar, lead author from the Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet, Denmark,...
NHA to host hackathon series under Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
Under the innovation track there will be challenge for innovative solutions to power digital health in an open network around various use cases such as teleconsultation, ambulance booking, lab tests, physical consultation booking and lab tests booking New Delhi: The...
Over 42 lakh deaths in India prevented by Covid vaccines in 2021: Lancet study
''For India, we estimate that 42,10,000 (over 42 lakh) deaths were prevented by vaccination in this period. This is our central estimate, with the uncertainty in this estimate ranging between 36,65,000-43,70,000 (over 36.6 lakh to 43.7 lakh),'' lead author of the...
Calif. top court to consider employer liability for COVID infections
It was the first ruling of its kind. Business groups have said allowing employers to be held liable for so-called "take-home" COVID infections will prompt lawsuits not only by workers' family and friends but by anyone infected by that circle of people. Companies...
Covid vaccines in time saved an estimated 20 million lives in the first year of the rollout: Study
High- and upper-middle income countries accounted for the greatest number of deaths prevented -- more than 12 million More could have been done to extend the benefits of vaccines to a wider number of people, according to a commentary in the same journal. Inequitable...