Delhi-NCR generates 5900 tonnes of medical waste per annum: ASSOCHAM
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IBNS): With a increase in the number of healthcare facilities, Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad collectively generate over 5900 tonnes medical waste annually, most of which remain untreated and dumped with municipal waste and thus cause serious health and environment hazard, reveals the ASSOCHAM.
New York, Feb 7 (IBNS): The supplement nicotinamide riboside (NR) – a form of vitamin B3 – prevented neurological damage and improved cognitive and physical function in a new mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.
Premature babies make fewer friends, but not for long, finds study
London, Feb 6 (IBNS): Premature babies make fewer friends, feel less accepted by peers and spend less time socialising in early childhood – but this improves when they get to school – according to new research by an international research collaboration, including the University of Warwick, UK.
Only 3% workers worry their health care: ASSOCHAM Survey
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IBNS): Despite increase in life-style diseases, only 3% of workers are worried about their future health since majority of it is hardly able to spare resources beyond meeting their daily needs and the absence of any affordable health services provided by corporates to majority of its employees, reveals ASSOCHAM survey.
Roving Robot visiting Kolkata Hospitals
Kolkata Feb 3 (IBNS): Cancer is a relentless disease. Damaging organs and tissue in its wake, cancer can be insidious in its onset, hiding malignant cells and tumours in the most unreachable parts of the body. Early detection is a daunting challenge. Once detected, patients find it hard to accept its presence wasting time in exploring alternatives. Eventually calling for surgery, medication and a combination of Radio and Chemotherapy.
Life expectancy gains are slowing in both rich and poor countries
New York, Feb 3 (IBNS): Increases in human life expectancy have slowed dramatically across the world since 1950, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IBNS): With nearly 4.8 million children in WHO South-East Asia Region missing measles vaccination every year, the ‘big six’ countries of the Region today shared their immunization challenges and lessons learnt for accelerating efforts to eliminate measles and control rubella by the year 2020.
Breast cancer treatments may increase the risk of heart disease
Dallas, Feb 2 (IBNS): Breast cancer patients may be at an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases including heart failure and may benefit from a treatment approach that weighs the benefits of specific therapies against potential damage to the heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal Circulation.
World's largest govt healthcare scheme to cover 10 cr Indian families: Jaitley
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS) Presenting the Union Budget 2018, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said a National Health Protection scheme is being launched to cover 10 crore poor Indian families offering up to Rs 5 lakh in hospitalisation a year.
South-East Asia region aims to close immunity gap, wipe out measles by 2020 – UN health agency
New York, Feb 1 (IBNS): The so-called ‘big six’ countries in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) South-East Asia region are meeting today in New Delhi on an accelerated strategy to wipe out measles and rubella in the next three years by targeting as many as 500 million children with vaccines.
Over $46 billion lost to premature cancer deaths in BRICS economies, UN research finds
New York, Feb 1 (IBNS): Premature deaths as a result of cancer is costing major emerging economies tens of billions of dollars a year, a new United Nations health study has found, underlining the need for context-specific strategies for both prevention as well as treatment for those suffering from the disease.
Liverpool to lead international diabetic eye disease research project: Study
London, Jan 31 (IBNS): Liverpool is to lead on a £1.15 million international research project to help transform early detection of diabetic eye disease in developing countries.
High rates of diabetes, hypertension found in India, finds study
New York, Jan 30 (IBNS): Rates of diabetes and hypertension are high among middle-aged and elderly people across all geographic measures and sociodemographic groups in India, according to the first nationally representative study of those conditions in the country.
Medicaid expansion linked with better, more timely surgical care
New York, Jan 30 (IBNS): The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion was linked to better access to surgery and higher quality surgical care, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
War in Ukraine has escalated HIV spread in the country: Study
London, Jan 30 (IBNS): Conflict in Ukraine has increased the risk of HIV outbreaks throughout the country as displaced HIV-infected people move from war-affected regions to areas with higher risk of transmission, according to analysis by scientists.