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Adopt Clinical Establishment Act, Health Ministry urges states
Also, families without shelter, destitute, those living on alms, manual scavenger families, primitive tribal groups, legally released bonded labour in rural areas will be included.For urban areas, 11 defined occupational categories, including rag-pickers, beggars, domestic workers, cobblers, hawkers, construction workers, plumbers, painters and security guards are entitled under the scheme.
Facebook junks project to collect patients’ health data: Report
“The project could have raised new concerns about the massive amount of data Facebook collects about its users, and how this data can be used in ways users never expected.”
Want to protect your brain from ageing? Stay away from stressful life events
“Having more midlife fateful life events, particularly relating to divorce/separation or a family death, was associated with advanced predicted brain ageing,” said Sean Hatton from University of California, San Diego in the US.
Starbucks coffee in California must have cancer warning, judge says
“While plaintiff offered evidence that consumption of coffee increases the risk of harm to the fetus, to infants, to children and to adults, defendants’ medical and epidemiology experts testified that they had no opinion on causation,” Berle wrote in his proposed ruling. “Defendants failed to satisfy their burden of proving … that consumption of coffee confers a benefit to human health.”
Walmart may buy health insurer Humana
Americans spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2016, or $10,348 per person. It’s roughly 18% of the nation’s gross domestic product, dwarfing retail’s 6% share. As Amazon expands into bigger and higher margin sectors, Walmart is scrambling to keep up.
Par panel recommends fixing of minimum compulsory period of working within country for docs
The committee observed that medical health care system encompasses health professionals working in the area of para medical disciplines like physiotherapy, optometry and other allied fields where there is no standardisation of curriculum or regulation of the quality of education and practice.
India to generate 775.5 tonnes of medical waste daily by 2020: Study
Inadequate waste management can cause pollution, growth and multiplication of vectors like insects, rodents and worms and may lead to transmission of diseases like typhoid, cholera, hepatitis and AIDS through syringes and needles, the report stated.
Modicare to be ready for launch by July end, to get Rs 10k funding from centre
Nadda, along with his two Ministers of State Ashwini Kumar Choubey and Anupriya Singh Patel, would hold zonal meetings with the states to fine-tune the system. Design of IT system along with NITI Ayog would be done by May 30 and testing of IT systems and finalization will be done in June.
65% claims for waterborne diseases made for children and millennials :SBI Gen Study
“ Making up majority of claims for waterborne diseases, the millennial generation is more likely to be exposed to risk of contamination as they often have eating habits that may include contaminated food and water”
Cabinet approves Modicare,provides a budgetary support of Rs160 billion for 2018-19 and 2019-20
“Benefits of the scheme are portable across the country and a beneficiary covered under the scheme will be allowed to take cashless benefits from any public or private empanelled hospitals across the country.To ensure that nobody is left out (especially women, children and elderly) there will be no cap on family size and age in the scheme,”said the govt statement