May 11,2024 New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday urged doctors to pay attention towards prompt, sensitive and inexpensive healthcare, saying they can make an invaluable contribution to the society by giving their time free of cost to poor patients....
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May 12,2024 Panaji: Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has said patients will soon have access to Artificial Intelligence-powered lung cancer screening tools across all the district hospitals and primary health centres (PHCs) in the state. The state has two district...
May 13,2024 A groundbreaking study soon to be published in a reputed journal reveals that global vaccination efforts have saved a staggering 154 million lives over the past 50 years—an equivalent of 6 lives every minute, every year. Among these,...
May 12,2024 New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) has released the dietary guidelines for Indians in which it has shed light on the intake of protein supplements which is commonly in practice...
May 11,2024 New Delhi: The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that the cause of death should be certified as heat stroke or hyperthermia where the measured antemortem body temperature at the time of collapse was more than...
May 13,2024 New Delhi: India’s drug regulator has formed an expert panel to evaluate several currently prescription drugs that can be sold over the counter (OTC) after various pharmaceutical companies lobbied the regulator to make their drugs an OTC product,...
May 03,2024 Washington: US President Joe Biden’s administration will allow certain immigrants illegally brought to the US as children greater access to federally run health insurance, the White House said on Friday, addressing a sensitive issue ahead of elections in...
May 03,2024 Sao Paulo: Brazil declared itself on Thursday as free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination, and will request World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) to recognise that status as it seeks to open more markets for its...
May 03,2024 Gurgaon: Doctors at six hospitals in India may soon start using an artificial intelligence tool, called Garbhini-GA2, to improve diagnosis of foetal abnormalities and get accurate gestational age for women who come for check-ups at later stages of...
May 04,2024 New Delhi: Malaria infection is linked with genetic changes, known to be brought about by ageing, according to a new study. Researchers extracted genetic material from blood samples of more than 1,800 adults from the African countries of...