Also in the article: the health ministry’s efforts to tackle tobbaco India accounts for nearly three- fourths of over a quarter million deaths worldwide caused by smokeless tobacco while millions more have their lives shortened due to its ill health effects, a new study has found. “Nearly 85 per cent of the total burden attributable …
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Views include those of Sankalp Sharma and Bill Gates According to Sankalp Sharma, since independence, India’s healthcare systems have undergone a sea change. He is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Competitiveness, India. He mentioned some statistics which according to him reveal a remarkable transformation: The life expectancy at birth has more than …
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Senior author Rohit Kulkarni, M.D., Ph.D., at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, said that complications were a major cause of serious diseases in type 1 diabetes, which affect the cardiovascular system, kidneys, eyes and nerves. Even with very good glycemic control, people with type 1 diabetes …
There has been an outpouring of emotions on social media sites such as facebook and twitter on the passing of Dr. Suniti Solomon.Dr. Suniti Solomon was India’s foremost HIV/AIDS researcher. She documented the nation’s first HIV case before setting up the first voluntary testing and counseling center Y R Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and …
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An article in the NY times by Seth Berkley talks about the new Ebola vaccine. According to interim results in the Lancet p, the rVSV-ZEBOV candidate vaccine is currently undergoing phase 3 trials – the final phase before vaccines can be licensed . It is safe in the short-term, but also highly effective at protecting …
GBC Health report presents a snapshot of health-related corporate investments in India, with a focus on business action on the MDGs. Based on survey findings from 23 leading Indian and multinational companies, the report documents the key characteristics of health CSR programs and provides an informative look at how participating companies are currently investing their …
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