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...
Face off between LG and Kejriwal over sexually accused principal of BSA Medical College
Amid the ongoing political crisis in the national capital, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Thursday launched a fresh attack at chief minister Arvind Kejriwal alleging that the transfer file of the accused principal...
QR Code to scan human brain, Google map for neurosurgery at AIIMS
The Department of Neurosurgery AIIMS, New Delhi, on Wednesday announced a series of transformative initiatives aiming to revolutionize patient care. With innovative training modules and technologies, the department of...
India’s fertility rate projected to fall to 1.29 in 2050
Continuing on a declining trend from 6.2 in 1950 to just under 2 in 2021, India’s fertility rate is projected to fall further to 1.29 and 1.04 in 2050 and 2100 respectively. In line with the global trends, where total...
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