No proof of mobile radiations causing cancer: ICMR study
A latest study by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said there is no conclusive data or evidence so far to show that radiations from mobile phone or towers have adverse health effects. However,
View ArticleHealth experts to study MIT research on H1N1 virus acquiring mutations
In order to gain clarity and study the outcomes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research, the Gujarat health department has set up a panel of health experts. The MIT research has raised
View ArticleStudy on mobile radiation begins
AIIMS, IIT-D Among 17 Top Bodies Asked By Centre To Probe Its Health Impact At least 17 top scientific institutions in the country, including AIIMS and IIT Delhi, have been commissioned by the Union...
View ArticleICMR studies data to fight drug-resistant infections
Antibiotic resistance data from four big hospitals s being studied and analysed or the first time in India to help forecast drug-resistance patterns that may surface in uture. The Indian Council for
View ArticleDiabetes innovation to increase sugar tests
Health experts called the new technology on innovative low-cost diabetes diagnostic kits an important breakthrough for the 60 million patients and 70 million pre-diabetics in India. They added that
View ArticleLandmark study lies buried: How Delhi’s poisonous air is damaging its...
It doesn’t get bigger than this, in size, scale and rigour — scientists from one of India’s top cancer institutes tracked 11,000 schoolchildren in Delhi for three years. They were drawn from 36 schools,
View ArticleKamrup tops in occurrence of female pharyngeal cancer in world: Study
The age adjusted incidence rate of pharyngeal cancers in females of Kamrup-urban area is highest in the world and age adjusted incidence of gall bladder cancer in females of Kamrup-urban is second highest
View ArticleIndia tops world in lung disease deaths
According to Central Pollution Control Board trends, air quality in Vijayawada is worse than in Vizag and Hyderabad According to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the deaths due to lung
View ArticleCancer cases likely to cross 15-lakh mark by 2025
Guwahati: The Union health minister, JP Nadda, on Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that cancer cases in the country could cross the 15-lakh mark by 2025 according to estimates by the Indian Council of
View ArticleBan sale of junk food to children around schools: Panel
A committee set up by the Centre to look into growing health problems among school going children has recommended that vendors should be barred from selling junk food during school hours in a vicinity
View ArticleNon-Communicable diseases biggest killer in NE: Report
Experts identified Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) as the biggest killer in NE and advised the states to go for massive prevention and control mechanism of the diseases. Indian Council of Medical Research
View ArticleNational Health Profile 2015 repeats cancer data: 20 pc increase in next 5 yrs
Mouth cancer in men, gall bladder cancer in women show highest spike The National Health Profile (NHP) 2015, released by Health Minister J P Nadda on Tuesday, has reported the same grim predictions
View ArticleTo make trials on children safe, ICMR draws up draft guidelines
Researchers may have to comply with strin gent ethical and legal norms for testing new medicines on children. The Indian Counci of Medical Research (ICMR has issued draft guidelines for biomedical...
View ArticleNutrition bureau axed, anti-poverty schemes starved
Forty years after being established with a mandate to generate data on the nutritional status of socially vulnerable groups, the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) has been shut down by the Union
View ArticleGovt aims to arrest premature deaths from diabetes, cancer, heart &...
World Health Organisation's (WHO) statistical profile 2015 for India states that the probability of dying between ages 30 and 70 due to cancer, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and
View ArticleICMR conducts antibiotic resistance survey
In attempt to stop misuse or overuse of antibiotics, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is conducting an “antibiotic resistance survey,” based on which its latest policy on the use of these
View ArticleDengue fever vaccine Dengvaxia: Hope but with caution
Delhi was the hardest hit this year with 15,730 registered cases and 38 deaths. Punjab had 13731 cases and 18 deaths while Haryana came a close third at 8066 cases and 12 deaths. For a disease that
View Article68 die of cancer every day in Gujarat: Report
AHMEDABAD: On an average, 68 people die every day due to cancer in the state. A total of 24,667 people died of cancer in 2014. The figure was 23,966 in 2013. In response to a question from Rajya Sabha
View ArticleCSE comes up with telling stories on India's health
A number of public health catastrophes - arising largely out of environmental reasons — are staring the people of India in the face. While the debate over polluted air and how to control it rages on in
View ArticleNot just lungs, other parts too bearing brunt'
AIIMS has endorsed a concern raised by medical practitioners for months -increased air pollution in Delhi is affecting not just our lungs but almost every part of the body . In a joint statement on
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