Tag: Disease
Becton Dickinson to acquire Bard for $24 billion
Will build on BD’s leadership position in medication management and infection prevention besides the increase of opportunities in innovative fast-growing clinical areas...........
Mentoring frontline health workers as the champions of NCD prevention
National consultation highlights the need to optimize the skills of health workforce to tackle non-communicable diseases in India......
“Future answer to hemophilia cure could lie in gene therapy”
"Large-scale community awareness critical to improve accessibility to diagnosis, treatment, and standards of care for any lifelong disease like hemophilia," senior doctor and expert, Dr Alok Srivastava tells us.......Click to Read.
Candlelight vigil at India Gate marking world tuberculosis day
The signatories, who lit candles at the site, have lent their complete support to achieve India’s goal to eliminate TB by 2025..........
Health minister’s fund for cancer patients
The programme covers patients affected with non-communicable diseases irrespective of the financial status of the patient....
World Kidney Day: High prevalence of obesity among CKD patients, reveals...
While close to 50% prevalence of obesity seen in the 1500 kidney disease patients recruited for the study, the overall prevalence of obesity is seen at a whopping 57% among women.....
India hosts first ‘SAARC Epidemiology Networking Forum’ meeting
India shows commitment towards building collaborations for joint animal disease surveillance and control programmes...
Hope for new treatment for Huntington’s disease
The discovery, published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, opens the way for new approaches to treating the currently untreatable and deadly neurodegenerative disease....
“WHO should take note of positive attributes of e-cigarettes”
Mentioned Prof Rajesh N Sharan, an accomplished biochemist and molecular biologist working in the fields of cancer and radiation molecular biology for last over 3 decades....
ICMR survey on diabetic patients in India reveals variations in prevalence
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in the latest survey focused on diabetes across various states in India has revealed the variation of prevalence from 4 percent to 13 percent....