DCI picks up challenge to tame Tobacco triggered tide of oral cancer
New Delhi: Dental Council of India (DCI) takes up ‘challenge’ to tame the tide of oral cancer triggered by tobacco chewing. Tobacco use assuming epidemic proportions, the campaign towards cessation…
A test that could help 30% of breast cancer patients in India avoid chemotherapy
NEW DELHI: One out of every three breast cancer patients in India may be able to avoid chemotherapy if tests are available in India at reasonable cost to predict the…
Success stories of the Delhi government “Health for all” and “free surgery” schemes!!
Delhi Government launched a number of schemes to help individuals to get the benefit of health services at affordable rates. Around 50,000 people already availed the benefits of the “health…
Source of Nipah Virus Outbreak in Kerala is still not found!!
Brain-damaging NIPAH (NiV) virus outbreak in Kerala enhances surveillance at healthcare facilities. An incurable virus killed 12 people in southern Kerala and more than 20 are hospitalized. It was first…
Light up National Cigarettes, You will die a Martyr, a true Patriot!!!
New Delhi: Besides producing cigarettes to kill lakhs of people every year, ITC, the Indian Cigarette Major, has also invented a lethal ‘weapon’ to kill its bête noire PHFI (Public…
Lead Battle against TB ‘Challenge’ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
New Delhi: Over twenty organizations representing millions of Tuberculosis (TB) survivors, patients and eradicate TB health activists have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to attend and lead…
Osteoporosis drug may cure heart too
According to the research reports made on the patients who had a hip fracture from 2005 through 2013 were followed until late 2016. 4602(13%) of total 34,991 patients were given…
For Ayushman Bharat: UP & doing in earnest
New Delhi: Sidhartha Nath Singh, the young and feisty health minister of Uttar Pradesh is in high gear to deliver Ayushman Bharat, globally the biggest govt funded health protection scheme…
Nadda preparedness to prevent vector-borne diseases in Delhi
With the monsoon season less than two months away, Union Minister for Health and Welfare J.P. Nadda chaired a meeting to review the preparedness of concerned agencies to prevent and…