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E-cigs using synthetic nicotine come under FDA oversight
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Indians still buy insurance for “tax-saving and investment”
A whopping 98 per cent of those surveyed purchased health insurance remains financial protection against medical expenses, even as 24% gave additional weightage to a combination of factors that include tax saving, personal events such as marriage, birth of child etc.
Kerala best state on health parameters, UP ranks worst, reveals Niti Aayog
Releasing the report, Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar said the Aayog is committed to establishing the Health Index as an annual systematic tool to propel states towards undertaking multi-pronged interventions to bring better health outcomes.Niti Aayog member Vinod Kumar Paul said the Union government should spend 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product on health
Trump moves to force hospitals, insurers to disclose Prices
The Trump administration has advocated for bringing down health-care costs by making prices more visible, boosting competition and reducing regulation. The approach contrasts with proposals from many Democratic presidential candidates to expand Medicare, the government health-insurance program for older Americans, to the broader population.
Working more than 10 hours can increase risk of stroke
“The association between 10 years of long work hours and stroke seemed stronger for people under the age of 50. This was unexpected. Further research is needed to explore this finding,” said Alexis Descatha, the author of the study.
HDFC buys 51.20 % stake in Apollo Munich Health Insurance for Rs1,350 crore
Post-acquisition of the shares by HDFC, Apollo Munich shall be merged with its general insurance subsidiary, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, which will emege as the second largest private insurer in the accident & health segment with a market share of 8.2 per cent
Wall Street takes on long-term care payouts as insurers balk at costs
Around 12 million people in the United States will need such assistance by the end of this decade, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This figure is set to skyrocket as the number of retirees increases; Americans over 65 years old are projected to more than double to 98 million by 2060.
Do your Facebook posts have God references? You are 15 times more likely to have diabetes
“As social media posts are often about someone’s lifestyle choices and experiences or how they’re feeling, this information could provide additional information about disease management and exacerbation,” Raina Merchant, an associate professor at University of Pennsylvania.
Some of the Facebook data that was found to be more predictive than demographic data seemed intuitive.
WHO likely to declare Ebola an international emergency: Experts
The Ebola virus epidemic in Western Africa was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history, killing over 11,000 people and spreading to ten countries, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States
Will provide clean drinking water to every household by 2024, says PM Modi
About 54 per cent of India’s groundwater wells are declining, and 21 major cities are expected to run out of groundwater as early as next year, posing a threat to food security, according to the NITI Aayog report
Pan-India doctors go on day-long protest in solidarity with Kolkata medicos
After entire healthcare system in West Bengal was crippled over the past four days, now doctors’ in Delhi, Mumbai and other cities in India especially AIIMS hospitals in the national capital, Raipur, Patna and Punjab are observing protest shutdown. Resident doctors in several government hospitals in Kerala and Hyderabad also staged protests as they started their ‘cease work’ demonstrations in respective cities. Around 4,500 Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) stopped attending to patients in all the 26 government hospitals in the state simultaneously on Friday.