An alarming rise in the prevalence of swine flu has occurred this year. As of the 9th July the H1N1 virus has affected 12,460 people and has been responsible for 600 deaths. This increase is considerable. Only 1786 infections occurred in 2016, with 265 deaths associated with the virus. Experts are particularly concerned at the …
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Key healthcare services will become more expensive under India’s new Goods and Services Tax (GST). According to the Union Health Ministry, pacemakers and kidney dialysis are among the healthcare amenities which will witness price increases due to tax hikes. The ministry was responding to a question submitted online. It says tax increases will be 5 …
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One of India’s leading cancer specialists has called for an investigation into the country’s tobacco lobby; its influence over the government; and efforts to derail the country’s tobacco control efforts. A full-scale inquiry Kailash Sharma – academic director of the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai (and a member of an NGO anti-tobacco coalition) – wrote …
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Has limited access to medications caused a preventable disease to continue to claim lives in India? Diphtheria is a disease that has largely been reduced in a number of developed nations; in India however diphtheria still persists. Explanations for this typically dwell on the lack of access to both medical treatments and to the vaccinations that …
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A seven hour long brain surgery has been performed in India, all while the patient played his guitar. The first surgery of its kind in India, the procedure was hailed as a landmark for Indian neurosurgery. Abhisek Prasad, 37, suffered from a neurological condition called musical dystonia. The condition involves involuntary muscle contractions associated with …
India’s first ever nutritional atlas goes live online, thanks to Telangana’s National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). An essential tool In an exclusive interview with Health Issues India, Dr M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao of the NIN says he hopes that the atlas will useful to “policy makers, programme managers, researchers, media, students and other stakeholders.” Given the …
Many millions of Indians are descended from groups of fewer than a hundred people. As a result, they are more prone to some inherited diseases, according to a new study described in Nature. India is currently the second most populous nation in the world, with a population exceeding 1.3 billion. In such a large population, …
Fears that the Zika virus could continue to spread in India are increasing. A fourth case of the virus has been detected in the state of Tamil Nadu. What’s noteworthy – and perhaps concerning – about the case is that the infected individual was uncovered not by national surveillance programmes, but by a Manipal University …
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Hospitals are home to some of the most vulnerable in society: the sick and the elderly. What if these hospitals are putting these vulnerable people at risk of potentially more deadly conditions than they arrived with? This is currently the case in many hospitals in Lucknow, where the hospitals themselves have become breeding grounds for …
The UN estimates that India will surpass China as the world’s most populous country in around 14 years, at which point the population will number 1.45 billion. Unlike China, which has attempted to implement controversial governmental strategies such as the one child policy, India’s population is still rapidly growing. India is currently the second most …
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