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"Government is working relentlessly to ensure people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) get due medical care."

 
Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda

Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

New Delhi: BJP National President and Union Minister JP Nadda said that the government is working relentlessly to ensure people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) get due medical care. Read More...

New Delhi: With the city enveloped in a haze, the demand for pollution aids is rising. According to chemists at Yusuf Sarai, Khan Market, Connaught Place and Khanna Market in various parts of the capital, the demand for N95 masks has gone up in the past few days. The sellers expect sales to increase in the coming days. Read More...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday suggested the Centre to come out with a policy relating to the construction of feeding rooms and childcare rooms in public places. Read More...

New Delhi: A separate central law to deal with offences against health care professionals is not required as the state laws have adequate provisions to address day-to-day minor offences and serious ones can be addressed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023, the National Task Force (NTF) has recommended. Read More...

Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Thursday said that the Centre has sanctioned Rs 104.66 crore for providing health care facilities in the hill districts of the state. Read More...

Mangaluru: Health and family welfare minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Saturday said chief minister Siddaramaiah will inaugurate 10-bedded chemotherapy day care centres in all district hospitals next month. Read More...

Lucknow: Over one and a half years since the launch of e-rupee vouchers in Uttar Pradesh, the govt has issued more than 14.5 lakh e-rupee vouchers, enabling pregnant women to access essential diagnostic services, particularly ultrasounds, at private centres across the state. Read More...

Delhi: Boston Scientific Corporation, a leading medical device manufacturer, has announced the launch of its multi-modality guidance system, AWIGO. This system is designed to generate IVUS vessel images and draw physiological graphs to assist in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures. Read More...

New Delhi: Abbott has launched a pacemaker in India for the treatment of patients with slow heart rhythms. Abbott has introduced AVEIR VR single-chamber ventricular leadless pacemaker which has been approved by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, the company said in a statement on Friday. Read More...

India's pharmaceutical industry, often called the "pharmacy of the world", is seeing a slowdown in voluntary licensing and technology transfers—mechanisms essential for improving access to medicines in low- and middle-income countries (LMlCs), according to the 2024 Access to Medicine Index. Published biennially by the non-profit Access to Medicine Foundation, the report is supported by the I-JK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Dutch Ministry. Read More...

HYDERABAD: In a big boost to state's pharma sector, six companies have come forward to establish green pharma units and expand their operations in the Green Pharma City. The firms MSN Group, Laurus Labs, Gland Pharma, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Aurobindo Pharma and Hetero Labs signed MoUs with the state government in the presence of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday. Read More...

Canada's public health agency on Friday confirmed the first case of clade I mpox in Canada, in an person in Manitoba. The Public Health Agency of Canada said this travel-related case was associated with an ongoing outbreak of clade I mpox in central and eastern Africa. Read More...

 

Ludhiana, Punjab Health Minister Dr Balbir Singh on Monday said 20 lakh students from schools and colleges will be trained in detecting dengue larvae and providing first aid. The minister made the announcement during a review meeting on vector-borne diseases at the Ludhiana Civil Hospital. Read More...

New Delhi: The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) comprehensively reviewed sector-specific enforcement actions taken by the concerned NCR State governments/Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) and Punjab to abate air pollution in the region. Read More...

Not for everyone. Small amounts of alcohol may stave off heart disease, and lower the odds of stroke and diabetes, too. But heavy drinking ups your chances for liver and heart damage, plus breast, colon, and other cancers. If you don't drink, don't start. If you do, limit yourself to one drink a day if you're a woman, or two if you're a man.

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Monday said north India is facing a medical emergency due to hazardous air quality caused by stubble burning. Addressing a press conference here, Atishi said the BJP-led central government has been doing politics over the issue of pollution but has taken no step to check stubble burning in states like Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh all ruled by the saffron party. Read More...

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has said that the state government has been very serious about the medical education and services, adding that Medicity will be built in Ujjain district. Read More...

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