Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The bi-directional relationship between poverty and tuberculosis (TB) is well established. Poverty aggravates material disadvantage, social exclusion, discrimination in participation across a wide range of socio-economic and behavioural activities along with undernutrition, overcrowding, lack of access to healthcare and other social determinants of health. Original Source
These rules aim to make available a database of clinical establishments which are authorised to function and thereby improve public health quality by eliminating quacks The Union Ministry of public health and family welfare on July 17 has issued the Clinical Establishments (Central Government) Third Amendment Rules 2019 and the …
The NDHM has proposed to provide the technology platform for collection of core health data from the providers and patients The government has proposed mapping health data of citizens and building a National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) on the lines of the Aadhaar database, and set up ‘digital health’ as …
Based on the symptoms, doctors recommend a blood test. The samples are sent to NIV Pune, which confirms the presence or absence of the Chandipura virus. Four cases of suspected Chandipura virus infection were reported in Gujarat’s Dahod on Tuesday, two days after the blood samples of a five-year-old girl …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of State of Odisha Vs Orissa Trust of Technical Education & Others dated 15/07/2019 regarding policy on telemedicine in the state of Odisha. State of Odisha question the correctness of the interim orders passed by the High Court in a …
From providing health insurance policyholders an option to choose third-party administrators (TPAs) to proposing a hike in the fees it levied on such firms, insurance regulator IRDAI has mooted multiple changes in the regulations governing TPA-Health Services. For greater competition, it is proposed to allow the policyholders to choose the …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Alternative Use of Atomic Energy, 10/07/2019. Atomic Energy is being used for various applications which are beneficial to mankind. Nuclear energy is also used for the production of radioisotopes in the country. Radioisotopes are used in medicine, industry, hydrology, agriculture and research and constitute …
Union Budget 2019: Over the last two decades, the use of health insurance has increased many folds in the country. But it amazes me to see that in India the premium for health insurance per lakh of money is far less than car insurance premium per lakh. India is a …
MUMBAI: Pharma major Gilead Sciences has failed to deliver on promises to make an important drug available to patients suffering from a life-threatening HIV-related infection in certain developing countries including India, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said. Nearly one year ago, Gilead announced its ‘access initiative’ promising …
Dehradun: Falling two slots from last year’s 15th rank, Uttarakhand this year was relegated to the 17th position among 21 states of the country in the healthcare rankings recently released by central government think tank Niti Aayog in its report titled ‘Healthy States Progressive India: Report on Rank of States …
Kerala has emerged as the top ranking state in the second health index launched by NITI Aayog, while Uttar Pradesh is the worst, reported PTI. The health index is a composite measure of States and Union Territories based on 23 health indicators with major weightage to the outcomes. The second …
Recent news that random bad luck plays a big role in cancer has been misinterpreted as bad news, when it’s actually very useful in helping humanity understand what cancer is and what can be done to prevent it. New experiments attempt to quantify findings from 2015 and 2017 that showed …
Growing political attention to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) offers a rare opportunity for achieving meaningful action. Many governments have developed national AMR action plans, but most have not yet implemented policy interventions to reduce antimicrobial overuse. A systematic evidence map can support governments in making evidence-informed decisions about implementing programs to …
The number of cancer survivors continues to increase in the United States because of the growth and aging of the population as well as advances in early detection and treatment. To assist the public health community in better serving these individuals, the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute …
The Future Health Index 2019 explores the impact of digital health technology on healthcare professionals and patients. This latest report is based on a survey of 15,000 individuals and more than 3,100 healthcare professionals across 15 countries. Now in its fourth year, the Future Health Index examines the role of …
This analysis reflects on experiences and lessons from four country settings—Zambia, India, Sweden and South Africa—on building collaborations in local health systems in order to respond to complex health needs. These collaborations ranged in scope and formality, from coordinating action in the community health system (Zambia), to a partnership between …
Electricity outages are common in low/middle-income countries and have been shown to adversely affect the operation of health facilities; however, little is known about the effect of outages on the utilisation of health services. Original Source
The prices and the coverage of effective direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) to treat hepatitis C vary across countries. South Korea expanded DAAs coverage through national health insurance. This study aims to analyse the cost-effectiveness of scale-up of hepatitis C screening and treatment with DAAs in South Korea, a high-income country. Original …
A collaboration between a British university and Indian institutions is helping improve the survival rates associated with childhood cancer in India. The collaboration between the University of Manchester and the Tata Medical Centre in Kolkata is helping to improve cure rates in children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) in India …
Nipah Virus: The disease spreads through fruit bats or ‘flying foxes,’ of the genus Pteropus, who are natural reservoir hosts of the Nipah and Hendra viruses. Healthcare officials in Kerala are on their toes after a male student in Ernakulam district was admitted to a private hospital last week with …
