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50% of 8 billion vaccine doses worldwide manufactured in India: Union health secretaryIndia has manufactured half of the world's vaccine doses in the past year, says Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava. The country...
WHO felicitates India for elimination of trachoma as public health problemIndia was honored by the WHO for eliminating trachoma, following Nepal and Myanmar. Other recognitions included Bhutan for achieving cervic...
Sports can push our young out of torporPhysical activity regimes are usually conducted sporadically, if at all. Increasingly for our young, it's on par with 'Eat your greens', so...
Here's why Hong Kong and Singapore have announced a recall of MDH and Everest productsHong Kong and Singapore have recalled popular Indian spice products from MDH and Everest due to the presence of carcinogenic ethylene oxide...
Test fail, India, get diagnostics rightA preliminary inquiry in Delhi's mohalla clinics reveals at least 65,000 medical tests were 'fake or manipulated,' raising questions about ...
Focus shifts to healthcare delivery in 2023 as Covid stress easesA major initiative this year has been the launch of the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in...
Pandemic hasn't been good for cancer research: Harold E VarmusCovid-19 hasn't been good for cancer research as all the focus was on the pandemic. Despite important learnings from Covid-19 on immunother...
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...
WHO urges India to stick to safety guidelines for hepatitis preventionSingh said the health sector needed to improve infant vaccination rates including birth dose of hepatitis B within first 24 hours of delive...
India, US ink MoUs on health infrastructure, cancer research, technologyAnother agreement was signed between the CDC, DHHS (USA) and the ICMR (DHR) on collaboration in environmental and occupational health and i...
- Air pollution is world’s top environmental health risk, WHO says
Air pollution is the world’s biggest environmental health risk, causing at least one in eight deaths around the globe, the World Health Org...
Youngsters need to be warned over 'killer tobacco' to curb oral cancerAn alarming 30% of the Indian population use some form of tobacco. Two days from now, when everyone takes a pledge to fight this addiction,...
Surveillance of foodborne diseases: Lack of labs, personnel biggest hurdleWe do not have enough labs and Epidemoilogists in the country at the district level to investigate such diseases.
Main threat is from HIV virus: Robert GalloThe conference, organised by the Kerala Chapter of Indian Medical Association (IMA) as part of its annual state conference.
HIV model can beat hepatitis, say doctorsOn World Hepatitis Day on Monday, World Health Organization called for using similar strategies and infrastructure to check the spread of i...
Apollo Hospital undertakes vaccination drive against preventable diseaseApollo Hospitals, has undertaken a large scale campaign wherein city’s adult and adolescent population will be provided vaccination.
- Govt to examine Sun’s breast cancer drug
The government will examine Sun Pharma’s post marketing surveillance studies (PMS) and clinical trials report of breast cancer medicine Let...