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Covid patients at higher risk of serious neurodegenerative disorders: Study
''More than two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the...
NHA to host hackathon series under Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
Under the innovation track there will be challenge for innovative...
WHO guidelines: Management of physical health conditions in adults with severe mental disorders
People with SMD have a 2-3 times higher average mortality compared to the general population, which translates to a 10-20 year reduction in life expectancy . People with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have been shown to have higher rates of mortality in both high and low-income settings. The majority of these premature deaths are due to physical health conditions.
Italy’s Generali to stop insuring new coal plants
Generali’s action, which comes ahead of a United Nations climate change conference in Poland in December, is the latest by a big insurance company that targets the coal industry as part of efforts move towards a lower carbon economy.In late 2017, French insurer AXA said it planned to disinvest further from the coal industry. Others that have taken steps include Scor, Swiss Re and Zurich Insurance.
Baby boom for some nations, bust for others: study
Ninety-one nations, mainly in Europe and North and South America, weren’t producing enough children to sustain their current populations, according to the IHME study.But in Africa and Asia fertility rates continued to grow, with the average woman in Niger giving birth to seven children during her lifetime.
Superbugs to ‘kill millions’ by 2050 unless countries act
As humans consume ever more antibiotics – either through prescriptions or agriculture and livestock products given medicines to stave off infection – strains of bacteria are developing that resist the effects of drugs designed to kill them.
China’s Biggest Insurer, Ping An, Plans $2B IPO of Health Tech Unit
Ping An Healthcare Technology covers the medical data of more than 800 million Chinese citizens, its parent company’s deputy chief executive officer, Jessica Tan, told investors in November last year. It has been able to help local governments in 250 Chinese cities reduce medical insurance expenditures an average 10 percent by preventing fraud, Tan said at the time.
How Bill Gates aims to save $233 billion by reinventing the toilet
“Human waste that is properly handled can be a very economically attractive investment due to the health benefits,” said Guy Hutton, a senior adviser for water, sanitation and hygiene with Unicef in New York, in an interview. “Given the unmet need of 2.3 billion people still without basic sanitation, there is a potentially very substantial market and economic gain to be had.”
Insurers can’t reject health claims after eight years of continuous renewals: IRDA Panel
The panel has recommended that all health conditions acquired after policy inception, other than those that are not covered under the policy contract (such as Infertility and Maternity) should be covered under the policy and cannot be permanently excluded. Thus, exclusion of diseases contracted after taking the health insurance policy such as for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, AIDs/HIV infection, Morbid obesity, etc.cannot be permitted.
Microsoft gears up for another digital revolution with quantum computing,
A quantum computer can solve complex problems that would otherwise take billions of years for today’s computers to solve. This has massive implications for research in health care, energy, environmental systems, global warming, smart materials and more.
Clinical trials on Ayurvedic medicine against dengue underway: Health minister Shripad Naik
“Through Ayurveda, it is possible to take Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Ayushman Bharat scheme to over six lakh villages of the country,”
‘Pollution in Delhi akin to smoking 15-20 cigarettes a day’
“Air pollution has reached alarming levels in Delhi and is causing severe damage to the health of the citizens. We have to act immediately to control this menace, otherwise the health consequences will be disastrous. We are already seeing an increasing number of patients in our hospital continuously complain about cough, irritation in throat and nose”, said Dr SP Byotra, vice-chairman, Board of Management, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.