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Rajasthan finds some MDH and Everest spices unsafe for consumption
Rajasthan checked samples of many spices and found a batch of...
WHO confirms human case of bird flu in India, 2nd case since 2019
While the H9N2 virus typically tends to cause mild illness, the...
78% of Indians feel insurance is an important part of financial planning: SBI Life Survey
But 38% of the Indians feel that the situation could worsen over the next three months and their top three worries attributed to (1) Rising medical/ treatment cost (2) Instability of Jobs (3) concerns around Health of family/self Mumbai, January 12, 2022: SBI Life...
India reports 1,94,720 fresh COVID-19 infections, 442 fatalities
``Plateauing of hospital admissions is an indication that the wave may have peaked. We may see a decline in cases in two to three days.Cases have started declining in Mumbai and Delhi is likely to follow the same trend,'' Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said New...
No complete ban on cannabis, medical use allowed: Centre to Delhi HC
The petition, which is listed for further hearing in March, has challenged provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act which prohibit the use of cannabis and has contended that the drug has medicinal and industrial benefits. New Delhi: The...
Too soon to treat COVID-19 like flu as Omicron spreads – WHO
"At this rate, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts that more than 50% of the population in the region will be infected with Omicron in the next 6-8 weeks," Kluge said, referring to a research centre at the University of Washington Fifty out of 53...
Government finalises medical insurance for retired Air India employees
Retired employees will get the Central Government Health Scheme facility for their OPD requirement and National Health Insurance Scheme for their hospitalisation requirements," a top government official told the paper. The airline has around 50,000 retired staff in...
Non-life insurance cos register over 7 pc rise in gross premium at Rs 18,953 cr in Dec 2021
The five standalone health insurance companies registered a 31.3 per cent rise in their gross underwritten premium at Rs 1,740.15 crore during the month, against Rs 1,325.03 crore a year ago Hyderabad: The gross direct premium underwritten by non-life insurance...
Contacts of confirmed cases don’t need to get tested unless identified as high risk: Govt advisory
Asyptomatic patients undergoing surgical/non-surgical invasive procedures including pregnant women in/near labour who are hospitalised for delivery should not be tested unless warranted or symptoms develop, the advisory said. New Delhi: Contacts of confirmed Covid...
In a medical first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
While it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center say the transplant showed that a heart from a...
7-day home quarantine mandatory for all international arrivals in India, Covid test on 8th: Govt
Contacts of the suspect cases are the co-passengers seated in the same row, three rows in front and three rows behind along with the identified cabin crew, the guidelines said Also, all the community contacts of the travelers who have tested positive (during home...
Next Covid variant after ‘mild’ Omicron could be more virulent: Expert
While the study showed that the new variant, dominant in the UK and now sweeping parts of India, is infecting the cells found in the lungs less, the virus itself is not intending to become milder. "There is this assumption that viruses become more benign over time but...