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1.6 mn people worldwide fall ill daily due to eating contaminated food: WHO
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1.6 mn people worldwide fall ill daily due to eating contaminated food: WHO

New Delhi, June 6: A 1.6 million people, including 40 per cent of children under 5, worldwide fall ill due to the consumption of unsafe food, said Saima Wazed, WHO Regional Director on Thursday, ahead of World Food Safety Day.World Food Safety Day, marked annually on June 7, was established by the...
Bengaluru doctors save premature girl born at 25 weeks weighing 750 gm
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Bengaluru doctors save premature girl born at 25 weeks weighing 750 gm

Bengaluru, June 7: In a medical feat, doctors here gave a new lease of life to a pre-mature girl born at 25 weeks, weighing just 750 grams. At 25 weeks, doctors at Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, Bengaluru, diagnosed the mother with an incompetent cervix and severe urinary tract infection (UTI).While...
Climate change to drive multiple sclerosis cases, fuel treatment market: Report
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Climate change to drive multiple sclerosis cases, fuel treatment market: Report

New Delhi, June 7: Climate change is likely to have a significant impact on the rise in multiple sclerosis (MS) cases, increasing the need for effective approaches to treatment, according to a report on Friday.Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, which affects...
Energy drinks may raise deadly irregular heartbeat condition: Study
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Energy drinks may raise deadly irregular heartbeat condition: Study

New Delhi, June 6: Consuming energy drinks may raise the risk of life threatening cardiac arrhythmias an irregular heartbeat condition, especially among patients with genetic heart diseases, finds a study on Thursday. Increased caffeine content and additional unregulated ingredients in these...
Strike vote at Seoul National University Hospital raises concerns of general strike
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Strike vote at Seoul National University Hospital raises concerns of general...

Seoul, June 6: Doctors at Seoul National University Hospital were holding a vote on Thursday on whether to go on a strike in protest of the government's medical reform plan, raising concerns other doctors' associations could join the collective action. The emergency committee of the Seoul National...
India narrowed inequities in severe child food poverty in last decade: UNICEF
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India narrowed inequities in severe child food poverty in last decade: UNICEF

New Delhi, June 6: India has successfully narrowed the inequities in severe child food poverty between poorer and wealthier households in the last decade by at least 5 percentage points, according to a global report by UNICEF on Thursday.The report 'Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early...
India has opportunity to become a world leader in health tech: Experts
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India has opportunity to become a world leader in health tech: Experts

New Delhi, June 4: With the vision of 'Make in India' and 'Atmanirbhar Bharat', India has an opportunity to become a world leader in health tech, said experts on Tuesday. In the last five years, India has seen tremendous growth in robotic surgery, Sudhir Srivastava, Chairman and CEO of SS...
Need to focus more on achieving health equality in India: Poonam Muttreja
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Need to focus more on achieving health equality in India: Poonam Muttreja

New Delhi, June 4: From the Ayushman Bharat scheme to digital health innovations, India has achieved significant milestones in the health sector in the last five years, and now the focus must shift to achieving equality, said Poonam Mutreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India.We've...
Health and Defence Ministry to set up dedicated Tele MANAS cell for armed forces
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Health and Defence Ministry to set up dedicated Tele MANAS cell for armed forces

New Delhi, June 5: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch a pilot project of Tele MANAS for the armed forces.Tele-MANAS, part of India's national tele-mental health programme, was launched...
US-based Vattikuti Foundation to nurture 20 medical students in India in robotic surgery
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US-based Vattikuti Foundation to nurture 20 medical students in India in robotic...

New Delhi, May 31: US-based Vattikuti Foundation on Friday announced to launch 'Vattikuti Explorers', a national competition aimed at identifying 20 innovative medical students in India and nurturing them in the field of robotic surgery. The programme, open to third and fourth year medical students,...
Provincial govt heads in South Korea propose policy directions to solve low fertility rate
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Provincial govt heads in South Korea propose policy directions to solve low...

Seoul, May 31: Provincial government heads in South Korea, on Friday, proposed various policy directions to develop their cities as a potential solution to the country's rapidly ageing population coupled with a low fertility rate.The remarks were made during a session hosted by Yonhap News TV on...
ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 had 41 percent surrogate ads on smokeless tobacco: ICMR
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 had 41 percent surrogate ads on smokeless tobacco:...

New Delhi, May 31: About 41 percent of advertisements shown between the overs during the 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup were surrogate ads of smokeless tobacco, according to a recent study by the ICMR National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research on World No Tobacco Day on Friday. World No...
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