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AIIMS Delhi moves to cashless system with introduction of digital patient care card service
Calling it a significant step for digital India, the Health...
JN.1 Covid variant has increased transmissibility, immune escape: Study
The researchers found that the reproductive number of JN.1 was...
LIC launches health insurance plan, cover upto 80 years
An individual can insure himself/herself(as principal insured(PI), his/her spouse, all children and parents under one policy.The plan is available for principal insured/spouse/parents aged 18 years to 65 years and children of age 91 days to 20 years.
The cover period available for PI/spouse/parents up to age 80 years and for children up to 25 years.
This plan provides benefits like flexible benefit limit to choose from,flexible premium payment options,valuable financial protection in case of hospitalisation, surgery etc,lump sum benefit irrespective of actual medical costs, Increasing Health cover by way of Auto Step Up Benefit and No Claim Benefit.
HDFC Life net profit declines 33 pc to Rs 302 cr in Q1 FY22
”In the quarter gone by, we witnessed a steep rise in death claims with peak claims in wave two at around 3-4 times of the peak claim volumes in the first wave. We paid over 70,000 claims in Q1.The gross and net claims provided for amounted to Rs 1,598 crore and Rs 956 crore, respectively. It appears that claims on individual business have peaked in June and expect them to normalise in the coming months with more people getting vaccinated and a fall in the absolute number of infections,” HDFC Life said on the impact of the pandemic on the business during the quarter.
WHO warns world in early stages of third Covid wave
The reversal has been attributed to low vaccination rates, the relaxation of mask rules and other precautions, and the swift spread of the more-contagious delta variant, which WHO said has now been identified in 111 countries and is expected to become globally dominant in the coming months.
Covid can make one more susceptible to active tuberculosis: Health Ministry
The ministry said notification of tuberculosis cases had decreased by about 25 per cent in 2020 due to Covid-related restrictions and special efforts are being made to mitigate this impact through intensified case findings.
New study suggests COVID-19 virus piggybacks only black carbon emission
The researchers found that the concentration of black carbon ”directly corresponds to the speed at which infections spread after the onset of winter and stubble burning period and then reduced with a declining trend in BC with a reduction in stubble fire counts”.
Seeds of Innocence to add 20 IVF & fertility centres across India by FY22
New Delhi: IVF and fertility centres chain Seeds of Innocence is looking to add 20 such centres across the country by the end of 2021-22 and also planning an international foray during the period, a top company official said. The company has 10 in vitro fertilisation...
Healthcare to have special focus in coming decades: Cadila Healthcare
”Innovation has been a gamechanger for us and it will continue to be an arrowhead for us in the decade ahead. Innovation also in terms of how we reach out to customers, that’s going to be the most critical part of what we do,” Cadila Healthcare Chairman Pankaj R Patel said .
China’s first human infection case with Monkey B virus dies: Report
The 53-year-old male vet, who worked for an institution researching on non-human primates, showed early-onset symptoms of nausea and vomiting, a month after he dissected two dead monkeys in early March, the state-run Global Times reported on Saturday, citing English Platform of Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
It said that there were no fatal or even clinically evident BV infections in China before, thus the vet’s case marks the first human infection case with BV identified in China.
Virus transforms hajj in Mecca and future of the pilgrimage
With no clear or agreed upon standard for a vaccine passport, vaccine inoculation rates vastly uneven and new variants of the virus threatening the progress already made in some nations, it’s unclear when Saudi Arabia will play host again to the millions more Muslim pilgrims it planned to receive in years to come.
Kids aren’t just littler adults – here’s why they need their own clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine
Clinical research studies of the mRNA-based vaccines for children under 12 are ongoing, and authorization of a vaccine for this younger age group is still at least several months away. These trials are necessary because children have important differences in physiology and responses to vaccines from those of adults. Conducting separate studies in children under age 12 is a vital step toward ending the pandemic.