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Narayana Health launches its first cover Aditi
With an annual premium of Rs 10,000, Aditi,' aims to cover a family...
ICICI Lombard launches new health insurance product powered with AI
Mumbai: ICICI Lombard General Insurance has launched health...
Govt controlled price of over 800 medicines required for treating diseases like cancer: PM
''If we look at the figures of this fiscal, then medicines worth over Rs 800 crore have been sold from the jan aushadhi kendras. This means that this year itself, the poor and the middle class were able to save about Rs 5,000 crore…till now, about Rs 13,000 crore have...
US scientists detect Omicron variant for first time in deer
'Our finding that some of these animals harbour SARS-CoV-2 suggests the presence of another potential threat,'' said Kurt Vandegrift, associate research professor at Penn State, and lead author of the paper ''While there is no indication so far of any of the...
Irda asks insurers to put details of health covers for transgender persons in public
Earlier, IRDAI had asked insurer to evolve a health insurance underwriting policy covering approach and aspects relating to offering health insurance coverage not only to standard lives but also to substandard lives Hyderabad: The insurance regulator IRDA has...
Star Health Insurance launches a holistic policy for women
In addition to regular hospitalization, Star Women Care Insurance Policy provides cover for assisted reproduction treatment, Delivery (pre and post-natal cover), multiple medical consultations, preventive health checkups, voluntary sterilization as well as child...
Latest diet trends can cost people more than their weight loss, says research
"In Australia, around 12.5 million adults are overweight or obese. That's two in every three adults, or 67 per cent of our adult population," Assoc Prof Karen Murphy said. "Not surprisingly, interest in weight loss diets continues to rise, yet very rarely are the...
Less amount of exercise makes it even difficult: Study
Unfortunately, many people fail to exercise enough, for reasons such as injury and computer usage. This puts people at more risk of disease. The less people exercise, the less fit they become, often leading to a downward spiral." A recent research has suggested that...
Two years into the pandemic, is the end in sight?
Countries such as Israel and Sweden have started administering fourth doses, but experts fear that an endless number of booster shots is a short-sighted strategy. An Israeli trial in January also found that a fourth dose was less effective against Omicron Pharma...
Experts question study predicting fourth Covid wave in India in June
“Active cases are decreasing quite fast — and from looking at the current trends we certainly cannot say anything about a new wave in the future,” said Sithabra Sinha, professor at Chennai's Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) New Delhi: Forecasting models are...
Exposure to green outdoors had positive mental health impact during pandemic
Surprisingly, the study found no association between being diagnosed with COVID and having poor mental health. But respondents reported that having symptoms, no diagnosis and no way to test was distressing. Those who lost income or felt they were working in an unsafe...
Covid-19: Omicron is 40% deadlier than seasonal flu, study finds
The decline in mortality with omicron could reflect both the reduced virulence of the strain, particularly in comparison to the delta variant, and the benefits of vaccination, the researcher said The omicron strain of Covid-19 is at least 40% more lethal than seasonal...