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“As a convenient tool, the user-friendly Vision Check establishes the need for vision correction through a screening test. This innovative offering is customer centric,” Titan managing director Bhaskar Bhat told reporters at a preview of the test facility.
Even a single exposure to anesthesia before age 3 was associated with significantly increased risk for a disability in language and cognition.
Studies on the effects of early exposure to anesthesia on developmental...
John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
The Nobel Priz...
A study in healthy young women confirms that treatment leads to trouble.
Many clinicians treat patients who have asymptomatic bacteriuria (AB), but studies have confirmed that AB treatment provides no benefit in ma...
The controversy surrounding the alleged abduction of Gonda chief medical officer SP Singh has brought into focus the ongoing recruitment of ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy (Ayush) doctors. With a change in policy opening the doors for the pr...
The judges observed that the prices of the drugs were so high that it left the patient with the option of either to die or buy medicines by selling one’s land or ornaments.
New Delhi: Protecting the interest of the common man, the...
New Delhi: The government will further strengthen food safety in the country by introducing standards regulations to bring quality of Indian food items at par with international quality levels, a senior official said on Friday.
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The teams will be headed by AYUSH doctors along with three other paramedics. Every block will have to have at least one team.
NEW DELHI: In the largest ever exercise to detect the three Ds — deficiency, disease a...
Dr Norman Haughey
Washington: The way the body metabolizes a commonly prescribed anti-retroviral drug that is used long term by patients infected with HIV may contribute to cognitive impairment by damaging nerve ce...
“Two lakh (200,000) people take advantage of this scheme every day. Some patients have benefitted more than once. They are being given free essential medicines at 15,355 medicine distribution centres and in all the government hospitals,” a senior ...
NEW DELHI: In a major move aimed at checking unnecessary medical tests and procedures, the health ministry on Sunday said it was working on a plan to make it mandatory for all private hospitals to declare and display the treatment costs of different diseases.
NEW DELHI: Here's a warning from a medical expert you won't get too often: Do not follow your doctor's prescriptions blindly and question whether you really need to undergo the diagnostic tests he or she asks for.
"On many occasio...
BHADERWAH, :Former minister and sitting MLA Bhaderwah Mohammed Sharief Niaz has appealed to the state government to open a new hospital under centrally sponsored scheme (AYUSH) Ayurvdea, Yoga, Unani, Sidha and Homeopathy in the building of old sub-district hospital Bh...
Lack of Accountability and transparency in procurement and services has led to big scams in the country, alleged Dr Virender Mahajan president of Federation of AYUSH Drug Manufacturers India. Dr Mahajan who has developed one of the most effective herbal drugs.
This study is damning of the entire pharmaceutical industry and its minions, the drug testing industry and the medical system that relies on and promotes them. Influenza vaccines produce no benefit and cause serious harm.
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Risk for pertussis increased 42% each year after the fifth dose of DTaP.
In 2010, California had a large pertussis outbreak among children, many of whom were fully vaccinated. Investigators examined the duration of protect...
This short term course is detrimental to the growth and development of homeopathy and other AYUSH systems of medicines. Since new generation students after plus two opt for this short term course for better prospects and career. Nobody interested for ...
A 'Twisted' Health Scheme Editorial- Economic and Political Weekly Vol - XLVII No. 38, September 22, 2012
State health insurance schemes are being abused to profi t private care providers.
The...
Imphal : Ayurvedic Yoga Unani Association has said that the advertisement issued by MPSC for the recruitment of seven regular posts of Homeopathic Physicians has violated the rules of AYUSH system.
In a press release, the associ...
The safety of calcium supplements has come under further scrutiny as recent reports suggest they may be linked with higher risks of myocardial infarction (MI) and kidney stones.
“Calcium supplements have been wid...
Hyderabad, September 20:
Dr. Niyaz Ahmed Khan, President, Old Boys’ Association and member of Development Committee of Nizamia Tibbi College, and Dr. A.A.Khan, State President of Unani Medical organization in a statement issued y...
MNS:- After the launch of NRHM, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has taken several steps for strengthening health care facilities by integrating AYUSH systems in national health care delivery systems. The integration is facilitated by appoint...
New Delhi, Sep 19 (ANI): Recognizing the popularity of the Indian systems of medicine in other countries, the Department of AYUSH under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has re-defined its strategy for international co-operation.