The virus known to cause microcephaly (abnormal development of the brain usually resulting in incomplete growth) has been deemed a major public health by the World Health Organisation’s director general: Margaret Chan. India is now part of a coalition of 5 countries that are trying to develop a vaccine for the disease that is affecting newborns …
By the early 2010’s, it is estimated that 1 million people will succumb to tobacco related diseases in India. The habits of tobacco consumption in India is specific to the country and difficult to accurately measure, as they are many forms of smokeless products which are produced locally in small settings. In an effort …
In 2013, doctors were sounding the alarm as they were increasingly confronted with mycobacterium strains that were resistant known treatments. In a study performed at a hospital in Mumbai that year, two thirds of the 300 patients enrolled were deemed untreatable as their level of viral resistance would render any treatment obsolete. This, year, …
The Union Health Ministry has decided to start random testing for the Zika virus in patients who show viral fever-like symptoms in the dengue season which starts end of April. This comes after Bangladesh confirmed the presence of the Zika virus in a sample from a patient admitted in 2014-15 who had tested negative for …
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The number of Indians suffering from kidney failures has doubled in the last 15 years with a rise of 10 percent in the number of citizens undergoing dialysis due to chronic kidney diseases (CKD). According to experts, several Indian population-based studies in the past estimated the incidence of End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) is 150-230 per …
J J Hospital’s gynaecology department has scored a perfect 100 in one of its most trying tasks: delivering 100 HIV-free babies of HIV-positive mothers since March 2014. The hospital is considered a referral centre for HIV-positive pregnant women who are turned away from other hospitals. “We have been working on reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV …
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The average Indian faced more particulate pollution than the average Chinese in 2015, the first time on record, Greenpeace India said in a study.Air pollution levels in India, especially North India, have risen over the past decade, with 2015 being the most polluted year on record. Pollution exposure for the average Chinese peaked in 2011 …
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The is the first year of the new global development framework- Sustainable Development Goals and the new global targets will influence the lives of Indian children. India was the first country in the world to have launched a National Programme for Family Planning in 1952. One of the goals was to stabilise the population at …
Finance Minister for India, Arun Jaitley announced in this year’s health budget that the government will: provide Health Protection Scheme of Rs 1 lakh to cover unforeseen illness in poor families with an additional Rs 30,000 for senior citizens set up 3000 new drug stores across the country to handle the shortage of drugs, especially …
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