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Odisha’s health budget doubled in 3 years: Patnaik
The budget provision during the 2019-20 financial year was more...
Japanese Encephalitis claims 1 more life in Assam; toll reaches 38
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is the leading cause of viral...
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.
Nine more children die in Bihar, toll rises to 63
Since June 1, 178 and 72 children were admitted in SKMCH and Kejriwal hospital respectively with suspected cases of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) but most of them were found to be victims of hypoglycemia.
Peak Re develops a new cancer multi-protection solution for Vietnam
It is part of the company’s strategy to support the evolving needs of the emerging middle class and address the protection gaps in emerging Asia.Peak Re plans to offer more solutions that boost affordable and simple insurance products in Asia beyond Vietnam, Peak Re is also actively engaging in developing customised solutions for different protection needs in other Asian markets, including China, India, Thailand, the Philippines and Cambodia.
A drug that can cure cancer without chemotherapy and side effects!
The complex biological medicines, called antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), have been in development for decades, and are now generating renewed excitement because of the success of one ADC in late-stage testing, a breast cancer treatment called DS-8201.
Indian Millennials prefer buying larger Health Cover:Policybazaar
The latest trend of shifting preference towards buying policies with higher sum insured is in sharp contrast to the millennial buying trends five years back, when Rs. 3 lakhs and 2 lakhs were the most sought after health cover marks.
Life expectancy in India down by 2.6 years due to air pollution: Study
“The deadly tally broken up by diseases shows that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to air pollution at 49% is responsible for close to half of deaths, followed by lung cancer deaths at 33 per cent, diabetes and ischaemic heart disease at 22 per cent each and stroke at 15 per cent. It is disturbing how COPD, lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease dominate the dubious tally,” it said.
Govt plans to re-introduce National Medical Commission Bill
After its introduction in the Lower House of parliament in 2017, the Bill, which aimed at replacing the Medical Council of India Act, 1956 and included the contentious provision of a “bridge course” to allow practitioners of alternative medicines to pursue allopathy, was referred to a Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee following massive protests from the medical fraternity.