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Head and Neck (HN) Cancer on rising trends in India: Experts

July 27, 2024

Second only to lung cancer in men and ranking third after breast and lung cancers in women, head and neck cancers have become more common in the cancer incidences in India. Head and neck cancer includes a range of cancers...

Indian coastal area, rice belt populations at high risk of Brain Infections during monsoon

July 20, 2024

Doctors at Amrita Hospital, Faridabad have raised an alarm about the surge of brain infections in coastal and rice belt regions of India during the rainy season. The high humidity and increased mosquito breeding in these...

Global life expectancy for males to be above 75, females above 80 years by 2050: Study

July 20, 2024

A recent study published in Lancet titled “Burden of Disease Scenarios for 204 countries & territories, 2022-2050: forecasting analysis for Global Burden of Disease(GBD) study-2021” has predicted that globally life...

Adequately spaced pregnancies can improve maternal, child health outcomes: Centre

July 20, 2024

Adequately spaced pregnancies can significantly improve maternal and child health outcomes, Union minister Anupriya Patel said on Friday, underlining that this also reduces risks and empowers women to make informed choices...

WHO calls for strengthening efforts to identify unvaccinated, under-vaccinated children

July 17, 2024

The World Health Organization on Tuesday called on countries in the South-East Asia Region to further strengthen efforts at all levels to identify and immunize unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children. As per the...

RML hospital performs 24 plastic surgeries in 24 hours

July 17, 2024

City’s Ram Manohar Lohia hospital on Tuesday operated 24 plastic surgeries in the last 24 hours to commemorate the World Plastic Surgery Day held on July 15. The plastic surgery OT began on patients from 9 AM of July 15 to...

Indian Patent Office rejects J&J’s application for paediatric formulation of lifesaving TB drug

July 17, 2024

The Indian Patent Office has rejected the US pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) application for a patent on the paediatric formulation of World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended TB drug...

All medical colleges to set up ‘tobacco cessation centres’

July 14, 2024

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed medical colleges across the country to set up ‘tobacco cessation centres’ to combat the adverse effects of tobacco use and promote public health. This initiative...

Doctor removes over 1 foot size and 7.5 kgs abdominal tumour

July 14, 2024

Doctors at a hospital here have removed large tumour mass of more than one foot size even bigger than a size of football in from the abdomen of a 58-year old male patient who has visited the hospital with heaviness and...

Amid Dengu rises, JP Nadda orders for special wards, central helpline

July 11, 2024

In view of the onset of monsoon and the rise in dengue cases, union health minister JP Nadda on Wednesday directed officials to primarily focus on high burden states and regions where outbreaks are frequently reported and...

Head and Neck (HN) Cancer on rising trends in India: Experts

Indian coastal area, rice belt populations at high risk of Brain Infections during monsoon

Global life expectancy for males to be above 75, females above 80 years by 2050: Study

Adequately spaced pregnancies can improve maternal, child health outcomes: Centre

WHO calls for strengthening efforts to identify unvaccinated, under-vaccinated children

RML hospital performs 24 plastic surgeries in 24 hours

Indian Patent Office rejects J&J’s application for paediatric formulation of lifesaving TB drug

All medical colleges to set up ‘tobacco cessation centres’

Doctor removes over 1 foot size and 7.5 kgs abdominal tumour

Amid Dengu rises, JP Nadda orders for special wards, central helpline

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