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“Our collaboration with the WHO on the GIDH is a testament of our shared commitment towards transforming the digital health ecosystem.”

Mr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare at the launch of WHO's Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH)

Feb 22,2024: The Delhi High Court on Thursday took a stern stance on the delay in enacting legislation to regulate clinical establishments, including laboratories, within the national capital, and asked Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and Health Secretary S.B. Deepak Kumar to appear personally before it on March 21. Read More...

Feb 28,2024: The Supreme Court chastised Patanjali Ayurveda for breaking the law and carrying on with its "misleading" advertisements about herbal remedies in defiance of the court's ruling. It received a notice of contempt from the SC and MD Acharya Balkrishna, prohibiting it from promoting its pharmaceuticals till further instructions. Read More...

Feb 26,2024: The surrogacy using donor gamete is allowed subject to the condition that the child to be born through surrogacy must have at least one gamete from the intending couple, it stated. Read More...

Feb 24,2024: Machines still can't think, but now they can validate your feelings, based on new research from New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Jorge Fresneda. Read More...

Feb 22,2024: Vadodara consumer forum ruled in favor of Vijay Joshi's complaint against National Insurance Company for not covering the BiPAP machine used for his sleep apnea treatment. The forum stated that the machine should be included in the cost of treatment and post-hospitalization expenses. Read More...

Feb 20,2024: To get more accurate figures, the UN health agency models the numbers each year, with its latest estimate indicating that there were 9.2 million cases and 136,216 measles deaths in 2022. Read More...

Feb 22,2024: Roughly 37 million Americans have diabetes. People with the disease aren't able to effectively regulate their blood sugar because their bodies either don't make enough of the hormone insulin or they have become resistant to insulin. Read More...

Feb 20,2024: Researchers at the University of Leeds have analysed more than 145 million records covering every adult patient admitted to hospital over a nine-year period to establish the risk of long-term health outcomes following a heart attack - in the largest study of its kind. Read More...

Feb 20,2024: Taking note of the challenges faced by a father in getting blood transfusion done for his three year old son suffering from thalassemia at a hospital in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chief has asked all states and Union territories to issue circulars to hospitals to provide blood transfusion therapy to such patients free of cost and step-up compliance with the health ministry guidelines on treatment. Read More...

Feb 24,2024: The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has recommended to the government to persuade private insurance companies to include Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (Ayush) treatments in their products and look at global acceptance for these systems of medicines through legalisation and insurance support in other countries. Read More...

Feb 24,2024: Scientists have long believed that a newborn's immune system was an immature version of an adult's, but new research from Cornell University shows that newborns' T cells – white blood cells that protect from disease – outperform those of adults at fighting off numerous infections. Read More...

Feb 22,2024: The chatbot, currently a pilot project, represents what many hope will be part of the impact of AI on health care around the globe: to deliver accurate medical information in personalized responses that can reach many more people than in-person clinics or trained medical workers. In this case, the chatbot's focus on reproductive health also offers vital information that - because of social norms - is difficult to access elsewhere. Read More...

Feb 26,2024: People in the UK were treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy less often than in comparable countries and faced long waits for treatments, according to two new studies published in The Lancet Oncology. Read More...

 

Feb 22,2024: However, after the surgery, he developed hoarseness in his voice, which, the operating surgeon said, could have been caused due to the excision of a tumour, along with lymph nodes, around the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve. He assured the patient that he would regain his voice within eight months with nebulisation and voice therapy. Read More...

Feb 21,2024: The GIDH is a WHO managed network which was unanimously adopted by all G20 countries, invited countries and international organizations and collectively launched as a key deliverable of India's G20 Presidency during the Health Ministers' Meeting in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on August 19, 2023. Read More...

A study by researchers at the University of Edinburgh has found that paracetamol can have a detrimental effect on the liver and the effect can grow up to an extent where it can cause liver failure. The scientists have observed the effects of taking the drug on mice. Read More...

Feb 27,2024: A division bench of Justice R Subramanian and R Sakthivel also imposed Rs 5 lakh cost on the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), the Greater Chennai Corporation and Rs 2 lakh on the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) for failing to check the illegal construction. Read More...

Feb 27,2024: The high court said there was no merit in the public interest litigation filed by Dr Namit Gupta seeking quashing of the December 24, 2023 public notice issued by DMC, directing that any person practising modern scientific system of medicine (Allopathy) in Delhi to be mandatorily registered with the DMC in terms of provisions of the Delhi Medical Council Act. Read More...

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