New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) India and Britain have signed an agreement for cooperation in the health sector with specific focus on strengthening primary health care and technological development, an official said here Monday. A memorandum of understanding was signed between union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi [...]

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) An advanced digital breast cancer detecting machine with the capability to see the lesions in breasts with much more clarity than ever before was unveiled in the national capital Sunday. The mammography machine ‘Amulet’ by Fuji films is claimed to be India’s first low dose [...]

Shimla : Reputed Grewal Eye Institute (GEI) has cautioned about vision problems among children going undetected, the costs that society has to be bear for such oversight and has offered to collaborate with government agencies under ‘mission vision’ for early detection and timely treatment.  Talking to reporters, Dr SPS Grewal CEO [...]

Gaza, May 19 (IANS) Fouad Yahya, a resident of the Gaza Strip, had never expected that one day a fish will help treat his skin disease, a therapy that he learnt about via the internet. “I smiled as I inserted both of my feet in a vessel filled with warm [...]

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) What began as an impulse to help those in need of dire medical attention in isolated areas of Assam, where the mighty river Brahmaputra is both a lifeline and a curse, is today a unique mission to reach healthcare to almost a million people spread [...]

London, May 18 (IANS) A stressful job can change the way body handles fat, resulting in raised cholesterol levels and even a heart disease, almost fatal for anyone. According to Spanish researchers, stressful situations affect how the body metabolises fat – ultimately leading the body with too much ‘bad’ cholesterol,” [...]

New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Eighteen-year-old Priyanka Sharma says she feels like an outcast when fellow commuters get up as she sits beside them or her friends call her a cow. The reason: A white patch on her forehand five years ago that soon spread to other parts of her [...]

Bhubaneswar, May 18 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has summoned the Odisha chief secretary for failing to submit a report on the problems faced by patients and Ayush doctors in the state, a petitioner said Saturday. “Such doctors are being forced to prescribe allopathic medicines although they are [...]

Lucknow, May 18 (IANS) A woman died here of swine flu late Friday, health officials said Saturday. Neelam Singh had recently returned from Delhi and had complained of breathlessness and other complications. Her husband, a doctor at the King George’s Medical University (KGMU) here, got her admitted to a medical [...]

Washington, May 17 (IANS) Expected to be the hardest, polio eradication was made possible in India thanks to social mobilisation and mapping of houses refusing the vaccine, according to Microsoft’s Bill Gates. “The two things that were done super well were social mobilization and mapping where the houses were,” Gates, [...]