Health
Up one levelInternational panel to review India's rural health mission
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) An international panel led by Jeffrey Sachs, special advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, will review India's flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
Sustainable development challenges and CSR activities in India
With glaciers receding, a major water crisis, greenhouse gas emissions growing with GDP and looming food shortages, India is beginning to experience some of the severe negative impacts of climate change and environmental destruction.
Women's health crucial for development
African governments have been called to "ensure that women are in a state of physical, mental and social being" capable of carrying out their numerous responsibilities.
Kerala Promotes Health Tourism The Ayurvedic Way!
Kerala, the name almost synonymous with the word 'Ayurveda', is now all set to reap the benefits of Ayurveda through health tourism. The reason for this is the popularity of Ayurvedic treatments and the manner in which Kerala is marketing Ayurveda in medical tourism.
India attractive destination for Health Tourism
We have an opportunity to create a niche in the health and wellness tourism market
Sri-Lanka Govt offers medical treatment through broadband link
The Sri-Lankan Government has equipped a rural hospital with computer facilities and a broadband link, which will offer remote consultation, diagnosis, and treatment through telemedicine, to patients in rural areas.
Vitamin E intake linked to fetal growth
Pregnant women who have high intake of vitamin E tend to have bigger babies.
Ramdev calls colas toilet cleaners
Controversy seems to have become the middle name for cold drinks in India.
Eat fruits & veggies, cut miscarriage risk
Including fruit and vegetables in one's daily diet could reduce the chances of miscarriage by almost half, says a new research that stresses the importance of a healthy, balanced diet during pregnancy.
Eleventh Plan ignores food and nutrition insecurity
The Plan must have a goal of providing food security to all Indians. The public distribution system must be strengthened and made universal.
What motivates kids to do their homework?
Why do some students work hard on their homework, while others do not? Recent research suggests that students' general level of conscientiousness predicts how much effort goes into their homework
Ensuring rights and dignity of people living with HIV/AIDS
Institutional responses to HIV & AIDS at individual, familial and community level have tended to mirror personal responses including stigma and discrimination and a varied level, degree and composition of acceptance with infection and overcoming stigma and discrimination. It is a complex and variable impeding factor in the recognition of infection; it arouses stigma and discrimination towards persons living with the infection.
Low-carb diet benefits type 2 diabetics
In motivated people who are overweight and have type 2 diabetes, a low-carbohydrate diet with some caloric restriction has lasting benefits on body weight and blood sugar control, Swedish researchers report.
Meditation benefits heart disease
Adults with coronary heart disease (CHD), who are stable and receiving optimal medical care, transcendental meditation (TM) not only leads to significant reductions in blood pressure, but also improves heart rate variability and insulin resistance, which is associated with an increase risk of diabetes. These beneficial health effects are achieved without changes in body weight, medication or psychosocial variables.
Mother's diet can tinker with baby's genes
A SIMPLE vitamin supplement in a pregnant mouse's diet can make her offspring fatter, according to research presented recently at the Human Genome Organization meeting in Helsinki, Finland.
US approves first cancer vaccine
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have approved a new cancer vaccine that might turn out as a "small step for man and a giant step for mankind."
Winds of change in health sector
Regulation and standardisation through a system of accreditation for the healthcare sector in India may be just round the corner with the Confederation of Indian Industry's National Healthcare Committee president, Naresh Trehan, submitting the first draft report on "accreditation system for hospitals" to the Quality Council of India (QCI).
Winds of change in health sector
Regulation and standardisation through a system of accreditation for the healthcare sector in India may be just round the corner with the Confederation of Indian Industry's National Healthcare Committee president, Naresh Trehan, submitting the first draft report on "accreditation system for hospitals" to the Quality Council of India (QCI).
Anti-tobacco campaign to target youth
Oncologists want taxes on the sale of tobacco products increased # 50 per cent of the 1.3 billion smokers worldwide will die prematurely of tobacco-related diseases # In India, the number of deaths due to tobacco-related diseases is 8,00,000
Health services hit in the Capital
Health services in hospitals attached to medical colleges in the Capital were affected on Saturday with patients bearing the brunt of the anti-reservation strike as resident doctors and medical students struck work for the second day running.
Are you drinking pure water?
You may turn the tap on and find that the water that flows from it is pure. The suppliers may even tell you it is safe enough to drink it but the advertisements may emphasise that it is not. It is time for you now to think for yourself whether the water you drink is safe.
Alzheimer's linked to diabetes?
A provocative new theory suggests that one root cause of Alzheimer's disease is linked to diabetes - a theory about to be tested in thousands of Alzheimer's patients given the diabetes drug Avandia in hopes of slowing brain decay.
Right to family planning: A new human right
12 apr 2006) The right to family planning was recognized for the first time as a human right in the 1968 declaration of Teheran, which resulted from the International Conference on Human Rights. In the following year it was included in the eclaration on Social Progress and Development by the UN General Assembly. In the 1970s the issue was constantly debated at the General Assembly and in world conferences.
Just 3 primary healthcare workers for every 10,000 population in India
(9 apr 2006) There is a shortage of 4.3 million health workers worldwide, particularly in the poorest countries where they are needed the most, according to the World Health Report, 2006 released.
Online programmes in health care management
10 Apr 2006: The Kovia Medical Centre and Hospital and MaxValue Online Business School of Tamil Nadu would be offering online programmes in health care management.
Health, not crime poses problem for working women: Assocham study
10 apr 2006) Contrary to expectation, a rising crime-graph against women poses no deterrent for a majority of working women across the country who, according to a survey do not feel insecure working in night shifts.
Doctors in short supply in developing world: WHO
13 Apr 2006: A severe shortage of healthcare workers in 57 developing countries is seriously impacting their ability to fight disease and improve healthcare, warns World Health Report 2006, outlining the need for more investment in the health workforce.
The unasked question in the foeticide debate
5 Apr 2006: Are we, as a country, becoming more sensitive to the issue of female foeticide and sex selection practices? Pamela Philipose in The Indian Express clearly puts forward some key issues under debate.
Indian Government appoints professionals to monitor rural health mission
4 Apr 2006: The Indian Government has employed 700 management and financial professionals to monitor use of funds released to the States under the ambitious National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
Reproductive and Child Health phase 2 funds on hold
4 Apr 2006: With the World Bank putting on hold as much as $1 billion in funding for health projects after corruption complaints˜as first reported by The Indian Express today˜the Finance Ministry has written to states and Central departments to ensure complete “transparency and integrity” in awarding contracts.
Insurance for those with HIV, AIDS by May
5 Apr 2006: Insurance for persons with HIV, AIDS and those at high risk will be launched by May end, according to Ashok Rau, Director of Freedom Foundation, a voluntary organisation in Banglore. Freedom Foundation in association with the United Nations Development Project, the Union Government and the National Insurance Company, is working on the insurance policy.
Health Agencies outline maximising public health with limited resources
5 Apr 2006: International aid agencies have outlined how developing countries can maximise public health benefits with limited resources.
Free treatment for AIDS patients: Government
New Delhi: The government could achieve its goal of providing free anti-AIDS drugs to one lakh people in the next two months by opening up 48 additional centres across the country.
Poor nations' health concerns UN
New York: Expressing concern that more than half of the people in the poorest countries of Asia and Africa lack regular access to medicines, the United Nations has called for steps to ensure that they get existing and new products for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases.
Nine million children made motherless by AIDS
Nine million children in Africa will spend Mother's Day this year with no one to cherish because they have lost their mothers to AIDS, according to a British charity.
Health education in schools
With a view to giving a curriculum-based impetus to the World Health Organisation's goal of `Health for All in the 21st century', Health Education and Promotion International Inc., an NGO, has brought out a set of course material for total health education in schools.
Medical colleges to provide medical services to the PHCs
Private medical colleges in Mangalore have come forward to offer their medical services to primary health centres (PHCs) and community health centres (CHCs) in Mangalore limits on an experimental basis, said H.V. Parshwanath, Deputy Commissioner in Manglore.
On road to better health?
Dr Prabhat P. Ghosh, Director of the Asian Development Research Institute in Patna, when quizzed on the dismal healthcare situation in Bihar, particularly in the rural areas, says with a half-smile, "That is true; you're right. The Primary Health Care Centres of Bihar are in a pathetic condition. But do you know that the average life span of a Bihari is almost on par with the national average?"