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10,000 new cases of Thalassemia patients reported each year in India: Health secy
Union Health Secretary also advocated for inclusion of compulsory...
Bombay HC allows maternity benefits for third child
"The right to reproduction and childrearing has been recognised as...
Omicron cases doubling in 1.5-3 days in areas with local spread: WHO
The WHO warned that with cases rising so rapidly, hospitals could be overwhelmed in some places The Omicron coronavirus variant has been reported in 89 countries and the number of cases is doubling in 1.5 to 3 days in areas with community transmission, the World...
CDC advisory prefers Pfizer , Moderna Covid vaccines over J&J shot
The CDC's advisers said Thursday that it was time to recognize a lot has changed since vaccines began rolling out a year ago. More than 200 million Americans are considered fully vaccinated, including about 16 million who got the J&J shot Most Americans should be...
Ban drug ads to promote health
In the US alone, USD 20 billion was spent in 2016 to convince doctors to prescribe brand-name drugs. The problem needs tackling at two ends: better regulation of promotion and making doctors less susceptible to it. Turning over-regulation to the drug companies, as is...
Global community steps up with $93 billion support package to boost resilient recovery in World’s poorest countries
The funds will be delivered to the world’s 74 poorest countries under the 20th replenishment (IDA20) program, which focuses on helping countries recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. In these countries, the ongoing pandemic is worsening poverty, undermining...
US health tab hit $4T as gov’t opened spigot to fight COVID
The $4.1 trillion tab for 2020 represents an increase of about $365 billion from national health spending in 2019. It works out to $12,530 per person Washington:U.S. health care spending rocketed to $4.1 trillion last year as Congress opened the spigot of federal...
Cabinet clears proposal to increase legal age of women to 21: Report
After the Union cabinet's approval, the government will amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, Special Marriage Act, and the Hindu Marriage Act to implement the new decision to increase the legal age of marriage of women," sources said. New Delhi:The Union...
San Francisco to require sick leave for nannies, gardeners
An employer would pay one hour of wages into the sick leave fund for every 30 hours of service from a domestic worker The measure would affect 10,000 people in the city who work in private homes cleaning, cooking, tending children, garden or providing non-medical care...
Omicron thrives in airways, not lungs; new data on asymptomatic cases
"By infecting many more people, a very infectious virus may cause more severe disease and death even though the virus itself may be less pathogenic. Therefore, taken together with our recent studies showing that the Omicron variant can partially escape immunity from...
Health facility registry & health account will together create interoperable system: NHA CEO
R S Sharma,CEO ,National Health Authority 'Similarly, we are going to have the health professionals registry, which means the registry of the doctors and all the health workers of various categories. So that will help people in locating the nearest doctor. Similarly,...
Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eventually be fired – CNBC
Employees who have not complied with the vaccination rules by Jan. 18 will be placed on "paid administrative leave" for 30 days, CNBC reported, followed by "unpaid personal leave" for up to six months and termination. Alphabet Inc's Google told its employees they...