Why India has restricted chlorpheniramine, phenylephrine medicines for children under 4 | Explained
The government’s action does not mean every medicine containing either ingredient individually has been banned
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Smoking isn’t the only risk factor: busting myths around lung cancer
The gap between what people believe about lung cancer and what medicine can actually offer has never been wider
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Environmental lead exposure linked to greater neuronal damage: ICMR-NIN
Understanding these cellular changes can help us better understand how environmental exposures may influence neuronal health, says ICMR-NIN’s Head of Cell Biology Suresh Challa
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Medical device rules eased for outsourced sterilisation; EU added to stringent regulatory jurisdictions
The amendments to the Medical Devices Rules, 2017, seek to simplify regulatory requirements, standardise testing fees and facilitate faster market access for eligible medical devices
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Thaimaman Thanga Mothiram scheme: Vault-like enclosures for gold ring storage at Tamil Nadu’s 107 CEmONC centres
The State Health Secretary has written to the Engineer-in-Chief and Chief Engineer (Buildings), Public Works Department (PWD) to put in place safety enclosures for the storage facilities at these centres.
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ChatGPT, internet searches and ‘dhuk dhuk’: Rajnath Singh highlights challenges of self-diagnosis for doctors
Mr. Singh said patients sometimes reached doctors not merely with their symptoms but with the diagnosis they had arrived at through internet searches
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The future of eye health needs more women leading it
Community models led by women have demonstrated what changes when women are given responsibility and authority, not simply participation. The same principle must extend upward through the profession, to hospital departments, academic institutions and policy tables
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All you need to know about: squint eye
Squint, medically known as strabismus, is a condition in which the two eyes do not align properly. It can affect children and adults and, when it develops during childhood, can interfere with the normal development of vision
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TNMSC to procure assistive devices, retrofitted scooters for Differently Abled Welfare Department
It has floated online tenders for fixing of rate contracts for supply of various types of battery-operated wheelchairs, sewing machines, tricycles, hearing aids, and reflective folding stick, among other things
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‘Breakthrough’ mRNA cancer drug curbs melanoma in large trial
Researchers have for years been trying to apply mRNA treatments against cancer, but this was the first time such a drug showed positive results in a large, late-stage clinical trial
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