Toxics Link appeals to Govt for a mercury-free healthcare system in India savita17 May 2017 9:11 AM ISTNew Delhi: Toxics Link, an environmental research and advocacy organization engaged in disseminating information and helping strengthen campaigns...
KMC to open first blood bank in south Kolkata savita16 May 2017 11:59 AM ISTKolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is setting up its first blood bank to be located in South Kolkata. Councillors of all wards of the...
New US policy to ban aid for overseas abortion providers savita16 May 2017 11:58 AM ISTNew York: President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly planning to expand its 'Mexico City' policy that bans U.S. funding for overseas...
NGT asks AIIMS panel to submit report on Tughlaqabad gas leak savita16 May 2017 11:57 AM ISTNew Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed an AIIMS panel, formed by the Centre after a chemical spill at Tughlaqabad depot led to...
Odisha nurse gets Florence Nightingale Award savita16 May 2017 11:54 AM ISTBerhampur: Krishna Kumari, a health worker in Ganjam district, has bagged the prestigious Florence Nightingale award 2017.The fifty-year-old woman...
Chhattisgarh: 213 HIV-positive women give birth to healthy babies savita15 May 2017 11:50 AM ISTRaipur: At least 213 HIV-infected women have given birth to healthy babies in the government-run hospitals of Chhattisgarh in 2016-17, a state health...
India introduces new vaccine to fight pneumococcal disease savita15 May 2017 11:50 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Centre introduced a new vaccine in its immunisation programme to protect children against diseases such as pneumonia in India, which...
Indian-origin doctor warned against UK health service cyber hack savita15 May 2017 11:50 AM ISTLondon: An Indian-origin doctor based in London had warned against the cyber-hack of the UKs state-run National Health Service just days before it...
Delhi will get rid of mosquito-borne diseases: Kejriwal savita15 May 2017 11:50 AM ISTNew Delhi:Â Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that Delhi would be made mosquito-free to eliminate vector-borne diseases such as dengue and...
AIIMS nurses looking after computerisation, RDA cries fowl savita14 May 2017 11:17 AM ISTNew Delhi: Despite several AIIMS departments facing shortage of nursing staff, around 100 nurses are instead working in the computer facility of the...
New 100 bed hospital inaugurated in Assam savita14 May 2017 10:40 AM ISTAssam: Assam health care sector recently took a leap as a new mother and child wing with 100 beds was inaugurated by State health minister Himanta...
Government plans to open Jan Aushadhi stores at 1000 railway stations savita14 May 2017 9:41 AM ISTNEW DELHI: Plans are afoot to open Jan Aushadhi stores at around 1,000 major railway stations across India as part of drive to make quality medicines...
