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28% UG, 15% PG med students diagnosed with mental health conditions: Survey
Thoughts of self-harm or suicide in the last 12 months were...
Pakistan & Sweden report cases of more infectious form of mpox first identified in Congo
WHO said there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 deaths in...
Centre to host 3-day ‘Health Summit’ at Gujarat’s Kevadia from May 5
In order to boost "Ayush", the Centre has also announced that they will be issuing a separate category of visas for those who want to travel to India for medical reasons and would want to avail of AAYUSH facilities New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya...
China contagion threatens to derail the world’s emerging markets
“Given China’s importance in global supply chains and importance to global growth prospects, further disappointments in the nation’s growth may lead to more contagion risk. We see countries with high trade linkages to China as being the most vulnerable” Johnny Chen...
Nobody can be forced to undergo COVID-19 vaccinations, says Supreme Court
Regarding segregation of vaccine trial data, subject to privacy of individuals, all trials conducted and to be subsequently conducted, all data must be made available to the public without further delay, it said The apex court also directed the Union of India to...
AM Best maintains its negative market segment outlook on India’s non-life insurance
The Best’s Market Segment Report, titled, “Market Segment Outlook: India Non-Life Insurance,” states that key lines of non-life business, including health, motor and crop insurance, have been challenged for several years by poor underwriting performance. Despite an...
Omicron sub-lineages likely evade vaccines, natural immunity: South African scientist
The BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages appear to be more infectious than the earlier BA.2 lineage, which itself was more infectious than the original Omicron variant, Tulio de Oliveira, the head of the institutes JOHANNESBURG: New Omicron sub-lineages, discovered by South...
WHO calls for end to ‘insidious’ online marketing of baby formula
The study found companies are paying social media platforms and influencers to gain direct access to pregnant women and mothers at some of the most vulnerable moments in their lives, through personalized content that is often not recognizable as advertising. The $55...
It may take 12 years for Indian economy to overcome COVID losses: RBI
The output losses for individual years have been worked out to Rs 19.1 lakh crore, Rs 17.1 lakh crore and Rs 16.4 lakh crore for 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23, respectively Mumbai: The Indian economy is likely to take over 12 years to overcome the COVID-19 losses,...
Govt working on digitisation of healthcare services under ‘One Nation, One Health’: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi PM Modi said the government focused on seven things in terms of health including preventive healthcare including through yoga and swachhta campaigns, early detection through new testing centres, primary healthcare centres in every...
ManipalCigna Health’s new product to provide cover to diabetes, obesity patients with 90 days waiting period
Prasun Sikdar, managing director and CEO, ManipalCigna Halth Insurance The product offers cashless services even for OPD expenses, industry first feature `Switch Off' that allows customers to switch off the cover while travelling abroad from second year onwards, for a...
Irdai proposes to standardise administration of group health insurance products
''All risk factors per unit of coverage such as individual, family, group floater, etc, should be separately analysed and priced,'' it said. Further, pricing should be based on sound actuarial principles, supporting data considering all the relevant aspects of pricing...