Columbia Asia Hospitals launches a comprehensive diabetes care program savita27 Aug 2016 5:25 PM ISTBangalore : India is the global diabetes capital with the highest number of people being affected by this disease here, as per statistics from the...
China over reliant on hospitals, needs more family doctors: WHO savita22 Aug 2016 2:22 PM ISTSHANGHAI: China's healthcare system is overly reliant on large, over-burdened hospitals, which will struggle to cope with a spike in diseases linked...
AYUSH to ink pact with WHO to spread significance of Ayurveda savita24 Jun 2016 9:05 AM ISTMumbai: The Ayush ministry will sign a pact with the World Health Organization (WHO) to spread the significance of Ayurveda and Ayush all over the...
Will take traditional Indian Medicine to all parts of the world: Ayush Minister savita9 Jun 2016 2:52 PM ISTTraditional Indian medicine is going to reach all parts of the world with the World Health Organization (WHO) having signed an MOU with the Government...
Include tobacco de-addiction treatment under IT exemption: IMA savita1 Jun 2016 10:20 PM ISTThe Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) have written to the Health and Finance ministries to include treatment...
Zika: UN health agency launches database on worldwide virus research savita16 April 2016 3:56 PM ISTBrazil : The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have launched a new Zika Research Projects List, a...
Yellow fever outbreak kills 178 in Angola: WHO -Prof.RamHarshSingh25 March 2016 9:17 AM ISTJohannesburg: The World Health Organization says the first yellow fever outbreak in Angola in decades has killed 178 people.The organization said that...
Now, simple blood test that can spot TB in HIV patients savita21 Feb 2016 8:39 AM ISTWashington D.C: Most commonly-used tuberculosis (TB) tests usually fail to detect the disease in the patients with HIV, but now a team of researchers...
Genes, bugs and radiation: WHO backs new weapons in Zika fight savita18 Feb 2016 11:09 AM ISTCountries battling the Zika virus should consider new ways to curb disease-carrying mosquitoes, including testing the release of genetically modified...
Guillain-Barre on rise in 5 Latam countries, no proven link to Zika - WHO savita16 Feb 2016 9:28 AM ISTA neurological disorder suspected of links to the mosquito-borne Zika virus is on the rise in Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Suriname and Venezuela,...
WHO: Zika vaccines at least 18 months away from broad trials savita14 Feb 2016 11:41 AM ISTGENEVA: Â Possible Zika vaccines are at least 18 months away from large-scale trials, the World Health Organization said as it advised pregnant women...
Chickenpox vaccine may cause eye inflammation: study savita27 Jan 2016 4:45 PM ISTNew York: Although rare, a vaccine for chickenpox and shingles which has been in use for more than 20 years and is considered an essential medicine by...
