Health

Border Security Force (BSF) handed over 1500 certificates to Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, pledging to donate their organs at a function organised in collaboration with National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO), here on Saturday. Speaking on this

Before a patient buys medicines it would be soon possible to check the price with the help of a mobile app. The drug pricing watchdog National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) will soon extend its "Pharma Jan Samadhan" facility to smart phones. Later more features will be added to this app

Members of the Musahar tribe, who have been living on the margin of society in Palamu, will soon get toilets. The tribal community, however, is reluctant to use toilets as they are habituated to defecating in the open. Report of TOI must be read.

Many prominent religious heads came together at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai to talk on encouraging their followers to become organ donors. Mostly refusal are based on the perception that their religions do not sanction such an act. However, it was pointed out that while accepting

Jharkhand has come out with a unique scheme to promote construction of toilets under the Swachh Bharat mission. Brothers have been asked to gift a toilet to their sisters on the occasion of Rakhi this year. The government plans to promote this in a very big way. Special camps will be organised in

The duty and functions of National Dairy Development Board are to promote, plan and organize programmes for the purpose of development of dairy and other agriculture based and allied industries and biological on an intensive and nation-wide basis and to render assistance in the implementation of

With the construction of 30 lakh toilets in three years Jharkhand will become 'Open Defecation Free' state. Addressing a meeting of the Jharkhand Corporate Social Responsibility Council, Chief Miinister Raghubar Das gave this information. He said this is the priority of the state government

The Ministry of AYUSH has created Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) in collaboration with Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) for digitalization of traditional medicinal knowledge. Under TKDL, more than 2.90 lakh formulations from the texts of Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha

Sri Aurobindo Society and the Institute of Palliative Medicine (IPM) have joined hands to work on a project called SANJEEVAN, for the development of a comprehensive system of community based palliative care for the incurably ill, chronically bed ridden, elderly and dying people. SANJEEVAN Is based

Jharkhand government has decided to set up trauma centres at Dhanbad and Hazaribagh. These centres will cater to the victims of road accidents on the stretch between the two cities on NH2 (Barakar near Dhanbad and Barachatti near Hazaribagh). It may be mentioned that there is very heavy traffic of

Modern-day Ayurveda specialists will try to find what Hindu god Hanuman moved a mountain for — the mythical and elusive, all-curing Sanjeevani Booti herb. The department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (Ayush) in Uttarakhand has formed a committee for the purpose

Delivering a lecture in Kolkata recently an expert in clinical oncology, Jack Cuzick, said that taking aspiring every day may help prevent gastrointestinal cancer. According to him aspirin, which is cheap and most commonly used drug, not only reduces the risk of GI cancers but also prevents its