Lung cancer continues to pose a significant public health challenge in Karnataka, accounting for over 6% of all new cancer cases in the State. According to data released by the…
Read article →India, which has a long history of addressing the challenges of undernutrition, has to pivot to attack the curious phenomenon of overnutrition that evolving lifestyles have now laid at its…
Read article →The prevalence of prediabetes and obesity among adolescent school children in Chennai has risen sharply over the past 17 years, according to a new study that compared data collected in…
Read article →To promote healthy eating habits among children, the Karnataka Food Safety and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory prohibiting the sale, free distribution, advertisement and promotion of food products…
Read article →People who want to give birth at home or without the help of doctors are going to Reddit, Instagram, and YouTube to both give and take medical guidance. Lives have already been lost
Read article →Prevalence in India was also higher among people in rural areas, most likely because of underdiagnosis of the risk factors contributing to dementia
Read article →Chaired by the Prime Minister with Union Ministers as trustees, all donations qualify for 100% deduction under the I-T Act, and count as CSR expenditure under the Companies Act, yet the Fund remains ‘outside the ambit of the RTI Act, parliamentary scrutiny, and audit by the CAG’, RTI activists say
Read article →The latest National Commission for Indian System of Medicine circular reinforces the legal status of registered AYUSH practitioners and seeks to prevent their public mischaracterisation while affirming their place in India’s healthcare workforce
Read article →Doctors say myths when it comes to reproductive health do more than spread misinformation: they often delay medical evaluations, increase emotional distress and reinforce gender stereotypes around infertility
Read article →Why NCISM says Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, and Sowa-Rigpa doctors cannot be called “quacks”
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