Health

Re 1 invested in improving sanitation helps save Rs 4.30, according to a recent study by UNICEF which was done to estimate the cost of benefits of government's Swachh Bharat Mission. Sharing the findings of the independent survey carried out across 10,000 rural households randomly selected across 12

The world’s cheapest and smallest ventilator, which looks like a clunky cellphone and can easily slip into your back pocket, has been developed by a young robotics engineer in Delhi in collaboration with a neurosurgeon at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. “It is almost 450 times smaller t

With cancer cases on the rise in the country, the government plans to set up 49 cancer centres in the next three years at an estimated cost of around Rs 3,495 crore. The centres will be in addition to 31 already functioning and upgraded since 2014-15, when the government floated the scheme. The canc

Indians could live four years longer on average, if India is able to reduce air pollution to comply with the World Health Organisation’s standards, according to the Air Quality-Life Index (AQLI) tool developed by the Energy Policy Institute at The University of Chicago (EPIC). In Delhi, which was fo

When surgeons were removing a tumour from the most sensitive part of a 10-year-old girl's brain in a Chennai hospital last Wednesday, she was playing her favourite game on her uncle's cellphone. By staying awake, talking and moving her limbs, the girl gave her doctors the confidence that they were o

Delivering his valedictory address at the 20 th National Homeopathic Congress of HMAI at Margaon in South Goa on Sunday Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH, Shri Shripad Naik said Homoeopathy being most efficacious and cost effective treatment of medicine, Government is committed

Snigdharaag Bhuyan, a 4-month old baby, suffering from acute pneumonia and on ventilation in a Guwahati Nursing Home, had to be rushed to Gangaram Hospital in New Delhi for advanced treatment. He had to be taken to the airport, without losing any time, from the nursing home for further transshipment

Some time back on this web site we had posted news of how film posters are being very effectively used to promote PM Narendra Modi's 'Swachh Bharat' mission. Another similar effort has been made by Chhoti Sadri Municipal Corp in south Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district. If one were to go by posters put

“ Walking the talk of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s speech on Independence Day 2017, the Government has fixed the ceiling prices of orthopaedic implants used in knee surgeries from today”, informed Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Ananthkumar. Based o

The year 2014-15 was a turning point in the country's cadaver organ donation movement. It saw the rise of some of the tier-two cities championing the cause and joining the bandwagon to take the movement forward. Pune, Indore, Surat and Coimbatore have emerged as prominent centres for organ transplan

Safdarjung Hospital has witnessed a record drop in the number of patients who acquire infection at its intensive care unit (ICU). According to a survey conducted at the central government hospital, 39 patients per 100 acquired infection at the ICU units in 2017. This is a sharp drop from 2015, when

Five years ago, Nerul resident Mabiya Mandal's world collapsed in an instant while she was sleeping, following a gruesome acid attack by her husband. However, she found support from several quarters in the form of contributions from well-wishers and a local hospital that has treated her free of cost