Health

One medicine for man, animal and plants to treat diseases including the dreaded cancer let alone other life endangering threats like fatty liver, dengu and checkengunia or the excruciatingly painful ailments like spondilitis, slipped disc, frozen shoulders and scoliosis. The ayurveda medicine is

For promotion of toilet usage across the country’s villages, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has come out with an aggressive new campaign called Darwaza Bandh starting on May 30th, 2017. Iconic actor, Shri Amitabh Bachchan, who leads the campaign, is proposed to be joined by Union

Government has recently approved a scheme for enhancing the Tertiary Care Cancer facilities in the country under NPCDCS to grant financial assistance to 20 State Cancer Institute’s and 50 Tertiary Cancer Care Centres in different parts of the country, Ms Anupriya Patel, Minister of State for Health

In what has come as respite amid rising medical expenses, a clinic at Mumbai’s Ghatkopar station is treating patients for a fee of Re1. The 12-hour outpatient ward of the clinic in Ghatkopar has three MBBS doctors and visiting MD specialists The clinic, a first-of-its-kind initiative by brothers Dr

The President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Florence Nightingale Awards to 35 nurses from across the country on the occasion of International Nurses Day at the Rashrapati Bhavan, here on Friday, in the presence of Shri J P Nadda, Minister for Health and Family Welfare. The President

For two years, eight-year-old Yashwant could only watch as his friends played and ran around in the neighbourhood. Even a small walk would leave him tired and breathless. Even after two years of medication the condition of the boy from East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh only worsened. “His

National Health Mission in Haryana launched a mobile-based application to create awareness among pregnant women, parents & health workers about the importance of antenatal care, institutional delivery, post-natal care and immunisation. The mobile application would deliver free, weekly, time

This is the story of 41-year-old Bheshaj Ramteke, a government doctor who is the sole medical link for nearly 200 villages in the state’s Kanker district, braving dense forests and left-wing extremists on foot, bicycle and motorcycle. Most other “outsiders” don’t dare venture into these villages

Adulteration in Milk is harmful to health even while it is an unfair trade practices. Further, it is a market fraud and affects the honest efforts of the milk producers. Government of India has enacted Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act -2006 in August 2006 to consolidate the laws relating to food

An inspiring story from Jharkhand where doctors of a government hospital in Daltonganj town of Palamu district, donated blood for an unidentified 14 year old boy. When the boy was brought to the hospital he had near-zero pulse rate and severe external injuries. The doctors and staff of this hospital

It is estimated that more than 8,000 species of herbs / medicinal plants are found in India. The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Ministry of AYUSH is presently implementing following schemes to encourage farming/ cultivation, conservation, and promotion of medicinal & herbal plants

In Bastar’s Maoist land, healthcare, education and social indicators are often low, but the Bijapur hospital is an anomaly, a symbol. There is a new blood bank, new operation theatres, and a 50-bed maternal and child healthcare section, strung up with the latest technology. In this report by