The Goa Medical College and Hospital in Bambolim is to establish a postgraduate course in physiotherapy, responding to a reported rising demand for the practice in India. A memorandum of understanding will be signed between the College and the Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences University, based in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. “Physiotherapy is beneficial to those who …
India has witnessed its first confirmed case of novel coronavirus, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has announced. The novel coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan, the capital city of China’s Hubei province. The disease has spread throughout mainland China and resulted in 7,771 infections and 170 deaths at the time of writing. Outside …
The Union Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) has spoken out about the coronavirus outbreak, suggesting that homoeopathic and unani remedies could be effective in preventing the disease. The Ministry advised that symptoms of coronavirus could be managed utilising traditional Indian medicine. “At the instance of Ministry of AYUSH, Central …
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Sanitation is one of India’s most pressing challenges in health and development. The improvement of sanitation standards in the country has been a priority of the BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi since it first came to power in 2014 – perhaps most notably through its Swachh Bharat Abhiyan campaign. To further these …
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The Union Cabinet has approved extending the timeframe in which a woman can avail an abortion to 24 weeks, in what has been described as a “progressive reform”, compared to the current upper limit of twenty weeks at present. This move marks a significant step towards abortion reform law. The approval of the Medical Termination …
Polls have handed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal a vote of confidence on healthcare accessibility as Delhi prepares to go to the polls to elect the next Legislative Assembly. The majority of citizens in the national capital polled approved of the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) performance on the issue. In a survey by the IANS-Neta App, …
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The Union Cabinet has approved amendments to a homoeopathy bill, which itself will amend a decades-old piece of legislation creating a homoeopathic council analogous to the Medical Council of India to regulate the practice in India. Systems of alternative and traditional medicine, such as homoeopathy, have been gaining popularity in India in recent years and …
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Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, has urged India to respond calmly to the novel coronavirus outbreak in China. At the time of writing, more than 6,000 individuals are infected and the death toll exceeds 100. The coronavirus outbreak has sparked global panic, with the Government of India planning evacuations of …
Multiple stakeholders from the Indian pharmaceutical and healthcare industries are calling for increased digitisation, arguing that a trend towards ‘digital pharma’ is fuelling the sector’s growth. “To understand how the digital transformation is occurring in pharma marketing, we would need to look at both the patient’s side and the healthcare professional’s side,” asserted Atul Sharma, …
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In an era of climate change driving extreme weather patterns, natural disasters seem to be becoming the norm. Indeed, recent months have seen the eyes of the world captivated by wildfires ravaging Australia – the country’s worst in decades. India is no stranger to environmental catastrophes and extreme weather patterns, witnessing calamities ranging from heatwaves …
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