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National Consumer Court asks NIA to pay Rs 1 lakh health claim linked to alcohol consumption
Clearly, nothing is mentioned in the policy relating to exclusion that treatment expenditure of any disease caused by use of alcohol or arising out of the use of alcohol will not be admissible, said the National Consumer Court..
New India Assurance had rejected the claims saying that disease of of the patient (claimant) was due to the alcohol consumption that IS not covered in the company’s policy.
Centre extends nationwide COVID-19 containment measures till Oct 31
The home secretary said there should be a continued focus on the five-fold strategy i.e. Test-Track-Treat-Vaccination and adherence to COVID-appropriate behaviour, to safely navigate through the festive season and avoid the possibility of a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Active COVID-19 cases in country lowest in 194 days
The death toll climbed to 4,47,751 with 378 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.
Govt to support 75 startup innovations for healthcare challenges
Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said India’s bio-economy is on its way to achieving the USD 150 billion target to contribute effectively to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a 5 trillion dollar economy by 2024-25.
India reports 26,041 new COVID-19 cases
At least 73 percent of Odisha’s population and over 93 percent of health workers have developed antibodies against SARS-CoV2, according to a recent serosurvey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The survey was conducted in 12 of the state’s 30 districts between August 29 and September 15 by experts of ICMR’s Regional Medical Research (ICMR), Bhubaneswar with help of the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Odisha government.
Intermittent fasting helpful in managing chronic diseases: Study
According to the study eating daily calories within a consistent window of 8-10 hours is a powerful strategy to prevent and manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.Time-restricted eating is a type of intermittent fasting that limits your food intake to a certain number of hours each day.
Women are more burnt out and considering quitting in US: McKinsey
In the last five years, women’s representation has increased at all levels, the report found. Women hold nearly 50% of all entry level jobs and around a quarter of C-suite roles, each up a few percentage points from 2016.
“Our concerns are the impact of pandemic burnout on women long-term, and what companies need to do in response,” said Rachel Thomas, co-founder and chief executive officer of Lean In.
India reports 18,795 new COVID-19 cases, lowest in 201 days
The cumulative number of COVID vaccine doses administered in the country so far has reached 87,07,08,636 of which doses 1,02,22,525 were administered in the last 24 hours.
PM Modi launches National Digital Mission to ensure health IDs for all
The key components of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission include a health ID for every citizen that will also work as their health account, to which personal health records can be linked and viewed with the help of a mobile application, a Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and Healthcare Facilities Registries (HFR) that will act as a repository of all healthcare providers across both modern and traditional systems of medicine.
This will ensure ease of doing business for doctors and hospitals and healthcare service providers.
Covid caused biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II: Study
The research team assembled an unprecedented dataset on mortality from 29 countries, spanning most of Europe, the US and Chile — countries for which official death registrations for 2020 had been published.
It took on average 5.6 years for these countries to achieve a one-year increase in life expectancy recently, while the progress was wiped out over the course of 2020 by Covid-19, they said.
The largest declines in life expectancy were observed among males in the US, who saw a decline of 2.2 years relative to 2019 levels, followed by Lithuanian males (1.7 years), they said.