Tag: Health
World TB Day: Govt launches new initiatives to combat TB
The Union Health Secretary released the TB INDIA 2018 report and National Drug Resistance Survey report. besides launching the NikshayAushadi Portal and shorter regimen for Drug-Resistant TB.............
India’s medical waste growing at 7% annually: ASSOCHAM-Velocity study
Inadequate waste management can cause environmental pollution, growth and multiplication of vectors, leading to the transmission of diseases like typhoid, cholera, hepatitis and AIDS through injuries from syringes and needles..............
India to soon have its National Surrogacy Board
The union government has approved the plan to amend surrogacy (regulation) bill, 2016 to ensure effective regulation of surrogacy, prohibit commercial surrogacy and allow altruistic surrogacy to the needy Indian infertile couples................
Govt expands medical admissions under disabilities quota, J P Nadda terms...
The percentage of seats to be filled up by persons with disabilities has been increased from 3 percent to 5 percent in accordance with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016..............
More than 88,000 TB Patients notified between 2015-17
The current Axshya project consortium led by World Vision India has its roots in National TB Consortium started in 2007 with a vision of a "TB Free India".............
Modicare to become a reality as cabinet approves Ayushman Bharat
More than 10 crore families to be covered under the National Health Protection Mission in which benefit cover is upto Rs 5 lakh per family per year. The existing schemes, RSBY and SCHIS to be subsumed under Ayushman Bharat................
Health ministry releases training manuals for health workers to promote oral...
To mark the World Oral Health Day, on 20th March, the ministry of health and family welfare released the manual on oral health promotion for health workers and school teachers................
Sedentary lifestyle leading to critical illness: ICICI Lombard survey
As per the survey conducted among working women by ICICI Lombard, the women in metro cities pay more attention to their health in comparison to the counterparts in non-metro cities...........
10 predictions that will transform global healthcare in 2018
A study by the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science Study has predicted modest global spending growth of 3-6 percent per year, estimated to exceed total cost of $1.44 trillion in 2022 worldwide...............
Digital health can prove cost effective for drug development, says GlobalData
As per the leading data and analytics firm, GlobalData, the research and development in the pharmaceutical and drug companies could get a major boost due to use of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies................