Despite a dedicated national programme to control anaemia since the seventies, there has been negligible progress, a recent research found. According to Indicus Analytics, between 1998-99 and 2005-06, the incidence of anaemia actually increased in India.
eHealth Bureau Till a few days ago we thought that going at the current trends of Polio cases, India might […]
Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) is still inadequate in reaching people in India suffering from HIV-AIDS. Research says that 2.6 lakh people are still in dire need of ART in the country. According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) latest report, ‘Towards Universal Access,’ which tracks progress in achieving the 2010 target for HIV prevention, treatment and care, around 5.8 lakh HIV patients required ART in end-2009.
Deaths from complications during pregnancy and childbirth have fallen by a third in the past two decades but 1,000 women still die needlessly every day, the World Health Organisation said recently.
In a major initiative to combat TB epidemic, the World Health Organisation and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) signed a joint statement here on Sunday seeking to involve pharmacists in tuberculosis care and control.
Till a few days ago we thought that going at the current trends of Polio cases, India might be completely polio free in a few years. In 2011, only 1 case of Polio was reported in the country.
Half a dozen eye hospitals in India are collaborating with a research centre here to create the inner layer of the cornea, the vital window of the human eye. It may allow 14,000 eye transplants a year.
Leprosy cases in the country has come down from 42 per one lakh population to only seven in the last decade but fresh cases continue to be reported, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said.
Following WHO warning, India alerts doctors of unreliable TB tests that may endanger patients
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.
[This article was published in the July 2011 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org) ]
[This article was published in the July 2011 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org) ] IGNOU, School of Health Sciences, educates students at the grass root level and provide in-service training for medical, nursing and paramedical courses through a multimedia approach
Medical images could now be transmitted via mobile phones, thanks to new research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
