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Future Generali India Insurance launches Disability Income Protection insurance Plan
The Disability Income Protection insurance plan from FGII is a...
No data to establish correlation of death exclusively due to air pollution, govt tells Rajya Sabha
“There are no conclusive data available in the country to establish...
Most states haven’t enhanced health budget share to over 8 pc: Parliamentary panel
The Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare, in its report tabled in Parliament on Thursday, recommended that all the states and Union territories should emulate Delhi and Puducherry and increase the share of health spending in...
Using artificial intelligence to red-flag emerging pandemics
Raina MacIntyre AI filtering and analysis of open-source data could stop future epidemics from becoming global pandemics Raina MacIntyre Serious infectious diseases have become more frequent in the past decade. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases...
Covid-19 deaths: SC allows Centre to conduct inquiry into fake claims
A bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagarathna said the government can verify 5 per cent of claims in four states -- Maharashtra, Kerala, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh -- where the gap between number of claims and recorded deaths was wide The top court also set a period...
Private vs. public: predicting and preparing for future pandemics
COVID-19 turned into a US$22-trillion disaster killing more than six million people globally partly because the dots between warning and action were not connected. Some governments took quick and precautionary action, especially those that had invested in their public...
MHA ends COVID-19 containment measures from Mar 31; wearing of face mask to continue
In a communication to the chief secretaries of all states, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said that over the last 24 months, significant capacities have been developed for various aspects of management of the pandemic, such as diagnostics, surveillance, contact...
Star Health launches exclusive cover for people above 50 years
The Star Health Premier Insurance Policy offers benefits such as Home Care Treatment for specified conditions (up to 10% of the sum insured subject to a maximum of Rs.5 lakhs), cover for inpatient hospitalization expenses and day care treatments under Ayush Treatment,...
Parliamentary panel for framing price control regime for COVID medicines, medical devices
''The Committee recommend that all medical devices critical to COVID-19 treatment like ventilators, oxygen concentrators etc. should be covered under the National List of Essential Medicines for effective price control,'' the report said New Delhi: Parliamentary panel...
No country met WHO air quality standards in 2021 – data
India's overall pollution levels worsened in 2021 and New Delhi remained the world's most polluted capital, the data showed. Bangladesh was the most polluted country, also unchanged from the previous year, while Chad ranked second after the African country's data was...
Global Covid caseload tops 472 mn, fatalities surge past 6.09 mn
The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 79,775,780 and 972,603, according to the CSSE The second worst hit country in terms of cases is India (43,009,390 infections and 516,510 deaths), followed by Brazil...
Telemedicine booms in S.Korea amid COVID,President-elect Yoon backs practice
A total 2 million people are under home care for COVID in the country. While there are two doctors per 1,000 people on average in South Korea, only six of 17 cities and provinces meet the average, showing how health care is thinner in many parts This gap in...