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Your favourite pani puri may increase risk of cancer, asthma & more
“Use of an excess amount of artificial food colours and flavouring...
Paytm launches ‘Paytm Health Saathi’ for merchant partners
At Rs 35 per month, Paytm Health Saathi offers a range of services...
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...
India’s new COVID-19 cases hit seven-month high of 117,100
The health ministry also reported 302 new deaths, taking the total to 483,178. Total infections stand at 35.23 million Government officials have privately said they are working under the assumption that daily infections will surpass the record of more than 414,000 set...
Omicron spreads in India’s big cities but hospitalisations still low
Nearly 90% of new patients had shown no symptoms and only 8% were hospitalized, city officials said in a daily health bulletin. COVID-19 cases nearly doubled in a day in Delhi to 10,665 on Wednesday, but the state said only 7% of its COVID beds were occupied New...
Make history and eliminate cervical cancer for ever, urges WHO chief
Cervical cancer is also the second most common cancer type for women, with the highest incidence and mortality rates, generally impacting low Human Development Index countries Nearly 90 per cent of 2018 deaths occurred in low and middle-income countries, where the...
India logs 90,928 new COVID-19 cases, positivity rate stands at 6.43 pc
The country has reported 2,630 cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 so far, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare As many as 325 patients lost their lives taking the death toll in the country to 482876. With this, the active caseload in the country...