The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad today launched mass Screening Camps for early detection of diabetes and hypertension amongst slum dwellers in Delhi.
Two United Nations agencies, namely Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), have recently urged all countries to be vigilant when dealing with traders and producers that affect the supply line, given the weaknesses in food safety systems around the world.
A new World Bank report titled Population Issues in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank, released recently warns that poor countries, wealthy donors, and aid agencies are losing sight of the value of contraception, family planning, and other reproductive health programs so as to boost economic growth, and reduce high birth rates which are strongly linked with endemic poverty, poor education, and high numbers of maternal and infant deaths.
Can antioxidants already present in the human diet protect against genotoxic damage induced by exposure to x-rays?
Staying in shape can be just as beneficial for the brain as the body, a large-scale study released suggests.
Countries in the Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus have made significant progress in working toward some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but efforts to achieve others have slowed or even regressed.
According to Robert Bullard, a professor at Georgia’s Clark Atlanta University and the director of that university’s Environmental Justice Resource Center, it is always the poor and the vulnerable who reside near land fills and thus suffer from them. This has something to do with institutional racism since these people are minorities
A US$30 million project that will use cutting-edge brain imaging technologies to map the circuitry of the healthy adult human brain.
The credibility of genetic screening, which is being thought of as a panacea for the older women opting for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment to have a child, is now under threat.
Researchers from the University of South Australia have developed a garment with integrated electronic technology, which enables it to monitor the wearer’s cardiac and respiratory functions, without the tangle of any wires.
GAO says DOD and VA are making progress on interoperability, but management improvements are needed.
A recent findings from a national survey in India by Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health, an organisation work in the field of public health in India and other developing countries reveals that exposure to mass media may impact the use of tobacco in India which is a major source of illness and death.
World Health Organisation has declared Artemis Health Institute (AHI), a multi-specialty hospital in Gurgaon, as the winner for its Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award for the year 2010.
