by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Briefs, Health, Non-Life
On World Cancer Day, SBI General, announced that it has joined hands with CanKids, the National Society for Change for Childhood Cancer in India, an NGO working across the entire spectrum of childhood cancer care. This partnership will help the children suffering from...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Citing results of a study published in an American science journal, JCO Global Oncology, World Economic Forum (WEF) said cancer rates are rising rapidly across India and one in nine of the country’s 1.3 billion citizens will develop the disease during their...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Briefs, Life
Life Insurance Corporation on Thursday said it was roping in insurance aggregator Policybazaar.com to distribute its products. “LIC, the country’s pioneer in life insurance and Policybazaar.com have joined hands to offer a wide range of term and investment...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
According to health experts at government hospitals in Agra, there is a 50-60 per cent rise in the number of oral cancer patients. Tobacco, tooth powder-based on tobacco, smoking and alcohol were among the primary reasons for the disease, they said. “If we compare...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
Widespread immunity from vaccines and infections, combined with the change of season, also puts Europe in a better position to fend off any resurgence in transmission WHO Europe director Hans Kluge said. Two years after the outbreak of Covid-19, Europe could soon...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Health, Indian News, Technology
In a letter to the prime minister, AMASI President Dr Jugindra Sorokhaibam said the Executive Committee of AMASI has learnt that certain mobile apps were being utilised in the country “to direct patients to surgeons/doctors without examination, who have signed...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Data, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
“In vaccinated versus unvaccinated, death was 10 per cent (91 per cent co-morbidities) vs 22 per cent (83 per cent co-morbidities). So really nine out of 10 had co-morbidities in this young population who died and were vaccinated. Of the unvaccinated, 83 per cent had...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Health, International News, Pandemic
The BA.2 sub-variant has begun to replace Omicron’s more common “original” BA.1 variant in countries such as Denmark. Data from there suggests no difference in disease severity, according to another WHO official. “BA.2 … has been reported in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 4, 2022 | Health, Indian News, Pandemic, Policy
“Our study published in the journal Science estimates 3 million COVID deaths in India until mid-2021 using three different databases,” Chinmay Tumbe, an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad who co-authored the study, told...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 3, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance, Risk Management
If there is war between Russia and Ukraine, teams and broadcasters could also suffer war-related losses themselves, as war involving the five so-called “superpowers” of the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia is often excluded from...
