Will not allow dilution of AIIMS brand: J P NaddaUnion Health Minister J P Nadda vows to maintain high standards at new AIIMS, ensuring no dilution in teaching and faculty. Highlights majo...
20 Oct, 2024, 09.08 PM IST
New govt digital locker to store, access, share your medical history: What is ABHA number, eligibility, benefits, how to enrolABHA ID card or health ID: Gone are the days when you need to save each and every documents of your medical record for your treatment and i...
23 Jun, 2024, 07.49 PM IST
More than 3.4 lakh women get diagnosed with cervical cancer in India: ReportThe support is provided on the basis of the proposals received from the states and subject to the resource envelope.
02 Feb, 2024, 11.36 PM IST
Over 32 cr people have been screened for oral, breast, cervical cancer at Ayushman Arogya MandirsThe Indian government reveals that over 1,63,000 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs nationwide have screened millions for oral, breast, and cervical c...
15 Dec, 2023, 05.57 PM IST
Govt to launch Ayushman Bhav prog to achieve 100% coverage of health schemesThe Union health ministry is planning to launch 'Ayushman Bhav' programme to ensure optimum delivery of all state-run health schemes to eve...
23 Jul, 2023, 04.00 PM IST
Studies underway on cases of sudden cardiac arrest among youngsters after Covid, says governmentSudden deaths have been reported in some young people after COVID-19 but sufficient evidence is not available to confirm the cause, Union H...
21 Jul, 2023, 03.26 PM IST
World Health Day: Why preventive is the new curativeThe need of the hour is to understand and adopt the right 'prevention-first' behaviour. For instance, we tend to think about our health onl...
05 Apr, 2023, 10.59 PM IST
70,000 Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centres operationalised ahead of schedule: GovtThe feat of scaling up primary health care facilities at this pace despite the COVID-19 pandemic was enabled by a high degree of coordinati...
21 Mar, 2021, 01.00 PM IST
South Asian nations keen to replicate India's NCD screening programmeIntroduced in 2017 by the Union health ministry, the NCD screening programme has so far enrolled 80 million persons across 29 states and Un...
09 Mar, 2021, 04.30 PM IST
Operational guidelines launched for integration of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with NPCDCS"Over the last two decades global burden of NASH has more than doubled. Globally, NASH caused 40 lakh prevalent cases of compensated cirrho...
22 Feb, 2021, 04.42 PM IST
View: India can take a leadership role in treating NCDsPrimary care for NCDs is now being provided in 120,000 newly established health and wellness centres. Ayushman Bharat and Pradhan Mantri Ja...
13 Nov, 2020, 11.42 PM IST
National policy, improved immunisation programme highlights on health front in 2017The nod to the draft National Medical Commission Bill, 2017, by the Cabinet, towards the end of the year, despite opposition from some quar...
28 Dec, 2017, 12.10 PM IST
India may have 120 mn diabetes patients in the next 20 yearsOn an average, a person suffering from diabetes spends about Rs 25,000 annually to manage the disease.
19 May, 2017, 02.09 PM IST
People above 30 years to be screened in 100 districts for NCDsGradually, it will cover the entire country and around 50 crore people will be screened under the programme to reduce the disease burden in...
16 May, 2017, 06.09 PM IST
8% men in 15-49 yrs age group have high blood sugar levelsThe government has launched the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke.
21 Mar, 2017, 04.42 PM IST