Health

Government has launched “LaQshya” (Labour room Quality improvement Initiative) to improve quality of care in labour room and maternity operation theatres in public health facilities. It’s a multipronged approach focused at Intrapartum and immediate postpartum period. Aim: To reduce preventable

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences is set to perform a lung transplant — a procedure that had so far been unavailable in both government and private hospitals in Delhi. The country’s premier medical institute received the licence for performing lung transplants from the Delhi government in

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, while giving a written reply to a question on check on drug prices in the country, in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, stated that the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has taken important measures to check the prices of drugs,

The nearest railway station in Balharshah is 100 km away but doctor-couple Anant Jadhao, an obstetrician, and Ashelesha Gadbail, an anaesthetist, have made Aheri in Gadchiroli their home, spending most of their time at the 50-bed sub-district hospital. In drought-prone Kavathe Mahakal in Sangli,

We have all seen children playing with drones. We have also seen drones being used for photography. But, here is a story of how this device can be used to save lives, specially in remote areas with difficult terrain. An experiment was conducted on Friday in Uttarakhand, in which a drone was used to

The Government of India, Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN) and the World Bank have signed a $287 million loan agreement, on Tuesday, for the Tamil Nadu Health System Reform Programme. The programme aims to improve the quality of health care, reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and

The first cases of multiple sclerosis (MS) were diagnosed in India in the 1960s. On June 4, the first MS clinic will be opened at AIIMS, in the pursuit of better diagnoses and treatment for the 2 lakh people living with the disease. MS is a condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord,

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), M/o Science and Technology and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), on Wednesday signed an MOU for supporting joint collaborative research programmes in the area of Cancer. Signing the MoU, Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary DBT and K N Vyas, Secretary DAE expressed

In a big relief to cancer patients and their families, the retail prices of nine anti-cancer drugs have been reduced by up to 87 per cent by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA). These nine drugs include commonly used chemotherapy injections to treat lung cancer as well, according to

India has more than halved the annual deaths among children under five years, from 2.5 million in 2000 to 1.2 million in 2015, but wide disparities remain between states, a Lancet study has found. Assam’s under-5 death rate is close to eight times that in Goa, which reported 9.7 such deaths per 1

Schools across the country will soon get a special grant from the Centre to develop “nutrition gardens” on their campuses where students would not only grow fruits and vegetables but also savour them in their mid-day meal, said a senior government official familiar with the matter. The plan, chalked

Aiming at reducing the number of deaths from heart attacks, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Thursday launched ‘Mission DELHI’ to deliver good post-attack care at the doorstep. With four bike-ambulances and 12 nurses trained to handle emergency cases, Mission DELHI (Delhi Emergency Life