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Mental health should be recognised as basic right: Kerala CM
Pinarayi Vijayan,Chief Minister,Kerala It is not merely the absence of mental disorders but a positive state of mental and emotional well-being. This definition aligns with the broader conception of human rights as not only freedoms from harm but freedoms to lead a...
INSIGHT-Down syndrome families’ fight for access to Alzheimer’s trials, treatments
Down syndrome affects 400,000 people in the United States and more than 6 million globally. When Lianor da Cunha Hillerstrom of Lexington, Massachusetts, learned her now 9-year-old son Oskar had Down syndrome, she was concerned but not panicked. As a child, Lianor...
Losses from China disasters reach $42 billion in first nine months of 2023
The emergency management ministry unveiled the unprecedented toll wrought on the nation of 1.4 billion by calamities that ranged from sandstorms to rains that brought massive flooding and historic rainfall in Beijing, the capital BEIJING: China suffered direct...
80 per cent Indians with mental health issues don’t seek treatment, say doctors
'The treatment cost is quite high in the private sector while at government setups there is a lot of rush and people do not want to go through that inconvenience,'' said Asthana who was the chief coordinator of the mental health festival organised recently by Mental...
Modify insurance policies, hold awareness drives: NHRC advisory for welfare of people with mental illness
Insurance policies and schemes should include treatment for mental illnesses to increase the accessibility and affordability of mental health care. To boost accessibility to treatments for mental disorders for financially disadvantaged populations, it is necessary to...
Over 1 crore OPD tokens generated using ABHA-based scan and share service: National Health Authority
Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir have emerged as the top-performing states in the implementation of this digital OPD registration service, it said. The paperless service, launched in October last year under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM),...
Union Health Minister Mandaviya inaugurates ‘Centre for Brain and Mind’ in Bengaluru
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya ''The primary focus of the centre involves a comprehensive investigation into a large cohort of severely mentally ill patients including those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
Ambani pips Adani to become richest Indian on Hurun list
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Pune-based Cyrus Poonawalla of vaccine maker Serum Institute of India has retained the position as the third wealthiest Indian, with a 36 per cent jump in the fortune at Rs 2.78 lakh crore, while Shiv Nadar of HCL...
IMF raises India’s GDP growth forecast marginally to 6.3 pc for FY24
'Growth in India is projected to remain strong, at 6.3 per cent in both 2023 and 2024, with an upward revision of 0.2 percentage point for 2023, reflecting stronger-than-expected consumption during April-June,'' the 'World Economic Outlook' said. China's growth...
RBI bars Bank of Baroda from more customers on bob World app
"This action is based on certain material supervisory concerns observed in the manner of onboarding of their customers onto this mobile application. Any further onboarding of customers of the bank on the 'bob World' application will be subject to rectification of the...
CCI plans market studies on impact of artificial intelligence on competition landscape
``We are looking at doing some market studies on that, so that we can understand the market better. We can look at whether there is any possibility of anti-competitive practices and if so, how they can be addressed. Whether we can even do a self-regulation. That is...
Sundarbans records highest drowning mortality rate among children across globe: Report
In the Indian part, Sundarbans is spread over 100 islands and has around 40 lakh inhabitants. Of the total population, around 15.9 per cent are children aged between one and nine and has a mortality rate of 38.8 per lakh population among children aged between five and...
Rising air pollution may cause inflammation in the brain, warn health experts
Dr Nand Kumar, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), told IANS that apart from air pollution, "environment changes marked by frequent and extreme weather events such as floods and storms affects mental health.People...
Global coal industry expected to layoff over 4 lakh miners by 2035: Report
Climate commitments to phase out coal power generation could accelerate ongoing trends in coal-mining job losses, even as employment in renewable energy and construction now exceeds 50 per cent of total energy employment Dorothy Mei, project manager for the Global...
Allahabad HC instructs state to form high-powered committee on fire safety measures
A bench of Justice AR Masoodi and Justice OP Shukla passed the order on a PIL registered by the court earlier, taking suo motu cognizance of a fire that broke out last year in Levana Suites Hotel in the city capital. The bench said had such a committee been...
Insurers Vs Hospitals: GI Council wants to sort out issues with AHPI through constructive dialogue, Tapan Singhel
Tapan Singhel, MD & CEO Bajaj Allianz General Insurance and Chairman, GI Council said,`` As an industry, we are working towards developing a platform for a 100 per cent cashless payment for all health insurance claims. It will be transparent, straight-through...
American Heart Association proposes adding kidney disease to heart risk
Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic affects nearly every major organ in the body, including the heart, brain, kidney and liver. However, the biggest impact is on the cardiovascular system, affecting blood vessels and heart muscle function, the rate of fatty buildup in...
Asia Pacific Employee Medical Plan Costs for businesses to rise in 2024, highest since 2015: Aon
"Health and wellbeing costs have become an important concern for companies as year-over-year medical plan costs continue to rise. These rising rates often bring unexpected or unbudgeted cost increases and make affordability for employers and employees more difficult,"...