ICMR transports mid-surgery tissue sample via drone for advanced testing
As part of ICMR’s trial run, a tissue sample was transported mid-surgery from a peripheral hospital in Karnataka for advanced pathological testing at a tertiary setting for deciding if the resected tissue was...
Cancer catching Indians at very early stage: Study
The average age for cancer diagnosis in India is much lower than to other nations like U.S., U.K., and China. The average age of diagnosis of breast cancer in India is 52 against 63 in the U.S. and UK, while for lung cancer...
SC rejects apology: Baba Ramdev gave non-existing flight ticket to avoid appearance
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the second apology filed by Patanjali Ayurved and its Managing Director Acharya Balkrishna in the contempt case over the publication of misleading medical advertisements. The bench...
Over 3500 people die daily from hepatitis viruses: WHO
Over 3500 people die every day globally due to hepatitis B and C infections and the disease has emerged as the second leading infectious cause of death globally, as per the World Health Organization Global Hepatitis...
Include funding support for rare disease in Poll Promises: Advocacy group to PM
Advocacy groups for rare disease patients have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP manifesto committee head Rajnath Singh for including sustainable funding support for such patients in the party’s Lok Sabha poll...
Prostate cancer cases to be double in 20 years
Prostate cancer cases are expected to be double, while deaths are expected to increase by 85 per cent between 2020 and 2040, according to The Lancet Commission on prostate cancer. The low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)...
Health minister reviews Public Health Preparedness for heat-related illnesses
As temperature has started soaring with the onset of summer, union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday chaired a meeting to review public health preparedness for management of heat related illness and called for...
Cesarean delivery rise from 17.2 % to 21.5% in five years in India
There has been a sharp increase in the number of caesarean section deliveries between 2016 and 2021 in the country, as per a new study published in the BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. The study has revealed that the prevalence...
Women with premenstrual syndrome at higher risk of post-pregnancy depression
Women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS), or symptoms experienced before their periods, are at a higher risk of developing post-pregnancy depression, according to a new research. Conversely, it also found that women with...
Are we consuming spurious drugs, over 1680 samples failed test in three years
In a response to questions raised in Himachal Assembly by two MLAs – Kewal Singh Pathania and Vipin Singh Parmar to health department of the state, the house said a total of 1,683 samples had failed quality tests, till...
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