Drug controller bans use of Buclizine in children to induce hunger
Government of India has prohibited the use of anti-allergy drug Buclizine as an appetite stimulant. In an order issued earlier this month, the Central Drugs and Standards Control Organisation...
British scientists develop virtual reality model for new treatment against cancerBritish scientists at Cambridge have built a novel virtual reality (VR) 3D model of cancer that will help increase the understanding of disease as well as in finding new...
Study from Mexico sounds alarm bells in Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world
As Delhi battles chill and air pollution there is more bad news, coming all the way from Mexico.
Air pollution in Mexico City has...
Researcher analyses the cost of bidis, a low cost tobacco alternative
Bidi smoking cost India 805.5 billion rupees in ill health and early deaths in 2017 alone. These are the findings of research published in the journal Tobacco Control.
The poor already...
Prior to the launch of the programme in 2014 immunisation cover rose by 1% per year
Prime minister Narendra Modi's Mission Indradhanush programme has catapulted the annual rate of increase in immunisation cover from a measly 1% to 4%.
Earlier this...
The 2018-19 flu season is on us, could last anything between 3-5 months
The Holiday season is here. So is the 2018-19 flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared.
CDC monitors and analyzes key flu activity indicators...
Developed by Duke university, the device has now been successfully tested at All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Since the 19th century when J Marion Sims the father of gynaecology perfected the speculum on slave women who had been bought...
Zika cases were reported from Rajasthan some time backThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US have issued an advisory forbidding pregnant women to travel to India as Zika is "endemic" in the country. More than 50...
Junior health minister Anupriya Patel informs Lok Sabha about the status of NDA government's flagship health scheme
Government has closed down 62 fake mobile application and shut down or blocked 23 websites for spreading misinformation about Prime Minister Jan Arogya...
Earlier this year a Parliamentary committee had told the Govt expansion pointless without filling vacancies
The fact that the Union cabinet continues to approve new AIIMS without plugging gaps in the existing ones, though understandable in an election year, belies...
