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From 60% of global cases to zero: India celebrates 15-year milestone in polio eliminationIndia achieved a historic milestone, completing 15 years without a wild poliovirus case. This success highlights strong political will and ...- As high-tech era tips the scale in favour of newer devices, stethoscope's fate hangs in balanceThe revered art of “auscultation”— the act of detecting maladies from listening to sounds from the heart, lungs or other organs—might actua...
- Addicted to vaping? Experts warn that long-term use of e-cigars may lead to drug abuseIt is imperative to take urgent comprehensive action to prevent the emergence of a new generation of e-cigarette smokers.
- Pakistan health authorities seek government permission to import mosquito nets from India after malaria cases surge due to floods: reportThe development came after a deadly malaria onslaught wreaked relentless havoc in flood-affected regions of the country, where hundreds of ...
- New study explores why brain cancer returnsThe team also found that lower-grade tumours often develop a new mutation that allows the cells to start dividing more rapidly, potentially...
- ICMR announces new standard treatment norms for 54 common illnesses for use by physiciansWith growing new scientific evidence and rising healthcare costs, the healthcare providers regularly require simple standard treatment guid...
- Covid in babies: Here's what to expect & what you should doThe good news is, most babies experience mild illness. Here's what to expect if your baby tests positive.
- Central government hospitals asked to conduct manpower ‘gap analysis’The Union Health ministry has advised all central government health institutions, from AIIMS to autonomous Covid-19 hospitals and ESIC heal...
- Covid-19 vaccine programme: Adverse events data show jabs safe for useThis data comes as states have reported hesitancy during the immunisation drive, especially among those being injected with Covaxin as it r...
- Covishield and Covaxin: Key concerns over the two vaccinesET tries to clear some concerns around the development with experts’ views on how the two vaccines can be used for India’s public vaccinati...
- View: Coronavirus is feeding off other treatmentsExperts have red-flagged serious setbacks to the fight against cancer and TB, both already grappling with dropouts due to traumatic side-ef...
- Untreatable infections caused two of three newborn deaths in Delhi hospitalThe data for AIIMS, Safdarjung and Lok Nayak, which cater mostly to inborn babies, was published in The Lancet in 2016. It showed nearly 25...
- Don’t let flu paralyse you! Yes, it's possible and here's how to prevent itAlthough our immune system creates antibodies to fight the flu virus, sometimes these antibodies can also attack the protective sheath arou...
- Are vaccine makers influencing India’s immunisation plan?Immunisation guidelines are tweaked to include products of the funding companies. Paediatricians, in turn, get hefty margins, a letter has ...
- Kerala set to adopt policy on antibiotic resistanceIt is launching the first antibiotic stewardship programme, which will cover public and private health services.
- Indian scientist Yusuf Hamied appointed to high-level panel on healthAn eminent Indian scientist has been named by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to a high-level panel on health technology innovation and access.
- Tobacco indeed causes cancer: Kerala medical communityEconomic burden for four specific diseases including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, tuberculosis, and respiratory disease in Kerala for t...
- National Basketball Association seeks to understand working of Nutritional Rehab CentreThe NBA team also wanted to see how the nutrition rehabilitation centre is run in the medical college.
- Is the recent hate crime against an Indian in New York a wake-up call for organisations?Racial stereotyping and attacks because of skin colour are something that Indian Americans have had to live with, particularly after 9/11.
- Companies lose appetite for junk food adsA group of food & beverages (F&B) companies, including Hindustan Unilever, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Kellogg’s, have come together to stop mar...
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