Air pollution biggest, most pressing environmental threat to health: WHO Medical Dialogues Bureau5 May 2018 9:57 AM ISTKolkata:Â Air pollution is the biggest and most pressing environmental threat to health and responsible for 1 in 9 premature deaths around the...
WHO announces new high-level commission of world leaders to beat NCDs savita thakur thakur18 Feb 2018 9:30 AM ISTGENEVA:Â WHO is announcing a new high-level commission, comprised of heads of state and ministers, leaders in health and development and entrepreneurs....
100 African docs to be trained in medical care in India Medical Dialogues Bureau7 Feb 2018 9:50 AM ISTNew Delhi: Hundred doctors from 10 African nations are to be trained at various facilities across the country, by experts of a private hospital, in...
Global Recognition to Dr Vinod Paul, WHO confers the prestigious Award savita thakur thakur1 Feb 2018 10:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: Dr Vinod Paul, Member, NITI Aayog has been awarded the prestigious IhsanDoğramacı Family Health Foundation Prize by the World Health...
TB patients may soon get monthly social support from govt savita thakur thakur15 Jan 2018 9:30 AM ISTNew Delhi: The government plans to give Rs 500 a month to Tuberculosis (TB) patients to help them buy nutritious food and compensate them for travel...
Two-third of children suffer from sexual abuse in India savita thakur thakur9 Jan 2018 9:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: Almost two-thirds of the children in the country suffer from sexual, mental, emotional and physical abuse before the age of 18 years, said...
Report stating 57 percent fake doctors in India Erroneous: Centre Slams WHO savita thakur thakur7 Jan 2018 10:45 AM ISTNew Delhi: The government termed as "erroneous" a World Health Organisation (WHO) report which claimed that 57 percent of allopathic doctors in India...
Govt launches door to door campaign against TB savita thakur thakur15 Dec 2017 9:01 AM ISTNew Delhi:Â On the lines of its anti-polio drive, the health ministry has launched a 15-day door-to-door campaign across the country for early...
Soumya Swaminathan to take charge as WHO Deputy DG in December savita thakur thakur27 Nov 2017 1:29 PM ISTNew Delhi: ICMR chief Soumya Swaminathan, a globally recognized researcher on tuberculosis and HIV, is set to assume the charge of deputy...
ICMR centre in UP on anvil, verbal autopsy study from January savita thakur thakur24 Nov 2017 9:20 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is likely to get a new regional centre in Gorakhpur soon, to carry out research on Acute...
90 percent of mental health patients deprived of medical care: President savita thakur thakur5 Nov 2017 10:45 AM ISTNew Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind warned that India was staring at a possible mental health epidemic and said over 90 percent of those affected by...
Kerala govt plans mass campaign against antibiotic abuse savita thakur thakur23 Oct 2017 9:30 AM ISTThiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government is gearing up to launch a campaign against the abuse of antibiotics in the state in the wake of reports that...
