A Parliamentary panel has flagged affordability gaps, with private providers delivering most of the country’s care. The threat, today, may therefore not be a single catastrophic medical bill but the slow erosion of household income through medicines, consultations, tests and repeated treatment
Read article →The virus no longer carries the deterrent power it once did, but changing sexual behaviour is putting young people at risk of other sexually transmitted infections. The numbers seeking care at the 23 District STI/RTI Centres under the Kerala State AIDS Control Society have been rising steadily
Read article →The researchers cautioned that the findings represent an early stage of biomedical research and require extensive validation before any clinical application becomes possible
Read article →According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s monsoon data for June, July, and August, 441 cases of H1N1, and 4,485 malaria cases were recorded
Read article →The joint venture is structured to create a single, integrated diagnostic pathway for patients and clinicians.
Read article →After 15 years of helping people manage their health and fitness, coach Arvind Ashok decided to try a GLP-1 drug for three weeks. It changed the way he understood one of the biggest challenges many of his clients face: food noise — and what it really takes to keep the weight off
Read article →Scientists are looking for a universal pneumococcal vaccine that can target all the hundred or so forms of Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria, and prevent some undesirable outcomes created by existing vaccines that also keep the threat of pneumonia, meningitis, and other pneumococcal diseases alive in the population
Read article →A transplant solves two problems in a single operation: it removes every tumour, eliminates the scarred field that keeps producing them, and restores completely normal liver function
Read article →The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on August 28, has proposed that the warning initially apply to products high in two or more of the three “nutrients of concern” — added sugar, added saturated fat and salt — as well as specified highly sweetened beverages
Read article →The UDF government’s first Budget allocated ₹10 crore to support a range of welfare initiatives for the State’s rapidly ageing population.
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