India- heat-wave warnings to advise people to stay indoors
New Delhi|More than 100 people are feared dead in India in an early-summer heat wave which forced schools to close and halted outdoor work like construction, government officials said on Thursday.
Neighboring Pakistan, which...
95% of India’s population lives in malaria-endemic area
New Delhi|
India's malaria eradication drive may soon get a boost with the health ministry likely to tie up with drugmaker Sun Pharmaceuticals for a state-specific programme against the mosquito-borne disease that could be...
Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao- improvement in child sex-ratio at birth in 49 districts
New Delhi|HL Correspondent
Beti Bachao drive has improved : About 49 of 100 districts where government's ambitious 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign to save and empower the girl child was launched last year has recorded...
20.8 percent of boys between the age of 13 and 18 years were using...
New Delhi|HL Correspondent
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The Delhi government ordered the prohibition of the sale, purchase and possession of all forms of chewable tobacco, saying violators can be imprisoned for up to six months and fined up to...
Experts predict the polio disease could be wiped out for good within a decade
London: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a new vaccine swap to eradicate the last few strains of the disease in 150 different countries.
Over the next two weeks, the countries will engage in...
Indian pharmacist to go in International Pharma exhibition
New Delhi|HL Correspondent
A group of Indian pharma will go to attend International pharma exhibition ‘Pharmaconex2016’.
The exhibition will be held in Cairo from April 19 to 21. A 44-member delegation from India will...
Punjab’s CM give nod to center for autism in mohali
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday gave in-principle approval to the setting up of a state-of-the-art Advanced Research and Treatment Centre at Mohali for people suffering from autism.
He took the decision...
Chewing tobacco ban in Delhi for a year
New Delhi |HL Correspondent
Government of Delhi has taken a step ahead for tobacco industry and banned the chewing tobacco products in state for a year.
Manufacturing, selling, purchasing and storage of all kinds...
JIYO- platform for self care
New Delhi|Ekta Purohit
Apollo Life a group of Apollo hospitals launched a wellness platform ‘JIYO’ along with Dr.Chopra a wellness expert and co-founder of JIYO on Thursday.
JIYO is a personalized platform for health...
Modi urged to revamp of Medical Council of India
New Delhi| Charging that Medical Council of India (MCI) has lost its "credibility and moral standing", former health secretaries and doctors have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revamp it to ensure that hospital...
