Dietary Guidelines for Indians- A Manual
<p>The dietary guidelines emphasize promotion of health and prevention of disease, of all age groups with special focus on vulnerable segments of the population such as infants, children and adolescents,
Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR)
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A Lancet To Puncture Your Pocket
The alarming new trend of asking patients to undergo surgery they could do without With the burgeoning of hospitals, medical malpractice has only grown. While in the past, doctors were known to prescribe
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Containing cancer: a call for comprehensive, decisive action
Cancer is often considered a disease of developed nations. In developing countries such as India, the focus has been on curbing communicable diseases. This has resulted in a dramatic improvement in life
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India to raise malaria toll figure 40-fold
NewDelhi:India may, in a few weeks, officially acknowledge that malaria kills 40 times the current estimate of 1,023 people a year. A 16-member committee set up by the National Vector Borne Disease
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Pharma cos need to compensate clinical trial victims, rules govt
New Delhi The government has made it mandatory for pharmaceutical companies sponsoring clinical trials in the country to pay financial compensation to volunteers in case a trial-related death or injury
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Community with low diabetes has more risk gene: study
A study on the apparent diabetes resistance of a tribal community in Rajasthan has found that they have the highest occurrence of the HLA gene, which makes the body predisposed to diabetes, in India, and
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Workshop on stem cell therapy in Kolkata
Kolkata, 26 Dec: The field of stem cell research and therapy has witnessed enormous expansion in basic and clinical aspects and much is expected from this rapidly growing sector of science which may alleviate
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WHO caution ignored, 1.75m wrongly diagnosed with TB
NEW DELHI, 20 DEC: A World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation to ban use of rapid test kits used to detect tuberculosis in developing countries notwithstanding, there is rampant use of this kit in
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Cancer not linked to Malwa water: Chief Secy
Cites an ‘exhaustive’ survey conducted by govt in affected areas; PTU expert rubbishes claim Disparaging reports linking high prevalence of cancer to brackish water in Malwa belt of Punjab, Chief Secretary
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Over 26K people have died of cancer in Gujarat this year
Ahmedabad: Cancer is on the rise in India, with an estimated 5.35 lakh people dying of the disease this year, minister of state for health Sudip Bandyopadhyay informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. In Gujarat,
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Superbug scare meant to hit medical tourism
The scare abroad over the superbug or NDM-1 (New Delhi Metallo beta lactamase) in 2010 was deliberately created to tarnish India’s image as a medical tourism destination, says V.M. Katoch, director-general