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India’s health allocation has been hiked by 14 percent in the budget for 2012-13 to Rs.30,702 crore (Rs.307 billion/$6.1 billion) for the sector with special focus on cheaper life saving drugs and better health facilities for the rural and urban poor. Presenting his seventh budget, Mukherjee proposed to extend concessional basic customs duty of five percent with full exemption from [...]
Eating more white rice may up the risk of type 2 diabetes, especially for Asian populations, researchers said. Patients who ate the greatest amounts of the grain had a 27% greater risk of developing the disease than those who ate the least, and the relative risk was higher among Asian patients, Qi Sun, PhD, of Harvard, and colleagues, reported in [...]
Government is fully prepared to meet the nutritional challenges being faced by the country. Presenting the Budget 2012-13 in LokSabha today, the Union Finance Minister ShriPranab Mukherjee announced Multisectoral Nutrition Augmentation Programme to combat malnutrition. Intervening decisively to address the problem of maternal and child malnutrition, the Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee announced a multi-sectoralprogramme in selected 200 high burden districts. [...]
There has been an increase in public health investment in the country. The combined revenue and capital expenditure of the Centre and states on medical and public health, water supply and sanitation and family welfare has increased from Rs.53,057.80 crore in 2006-07 to Rs. 96,672.79 crore in 2010-11 (BE). In addition to increasing resource allocation for the Health Sector the [...]
Running is the most natural exercise for a human being. When a small infant starts walking, he tries to run as it is more natural for him. Due to the benefits of running, millions of people all over the world are running and the numbers are constantly increasing. The advantages of running are enumerated below: Heart: The maximum benefits occur [...]
The life of a less-than-a-year-old cancer-hit baby was saved when doctors transplanted the liver of a 37-year-old man in her. Karen and Carl — parents of now two-year-old Ellie-Mae Wolfenden — celebrate an extra birthday each year for their daughter, marking the day of her surgery as the day she was given a second life, the Daily Mail reported. “I [...]
Over sixty percent people do not seek medical help for mental illness only due to the stigma associated with the term, experts said here Saturday. “Mental illness is like any other physical illness and is treatable. Early intervention leads to better outcomes and can prevent people from reaching the crisis point,” said Sudhir Joseph, director at St. Stephen’s hospital in [...]
Arthritis sufferers have 40 percent higher risk of developing erratic heartbeat which can trigger heart attacks and death, warn researchers. The researchers believe the inflammation of joints in arthritis may cause irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation, besides formation of blood clots and stroke. Rheumatoid arthritis tends to strike between the ages of 40 and 70 years and is more [...]
A single dose of psychedelic drug LSD helped heavy alcoholics cope with the after-effects while lowering the possibility of a relapse, according to several studies. The results of these studies demonstrated that LSD patients were less likely to relapse into problematic alcohol use and had higher levels of total abstinence, said Teri Krebs and Pål-Ørjan Johansen, researchers at the Norwegian [...]
A new aspirin compound, the latest to join the armoury of drugs against cancer, has shown great promise in fighting and shrinking 11 different types of human cancer cells, without harming normal cells. The new designer drug curbed the growth of cancer cells including that of colon, pancreatic, lung, prostate, breast, and leukemia, in the lab, according to a team [...]
It’s an anxious yet exciting countdown for Congress leader and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi, who is expecting to get rid of the wheelchair and become perhaps the first in India to walk with the help of robotic legs. The 66-year-old politician, who has been confined to wheelchair since April 2004 after a near-fatal road accident, will reach India’s [...]
Premature babies, thrust into a highly specialised neo-natal unit which protects them from the ravages of untimely birth, sorely miss the soothing maternal sound. But, new research shows how it can be revived. Research conducted by Amir Lahav, director of the Neonatal Research Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and colleagues linked exposure to an audio recording of a mother’s [...]
Last year, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) examined the accounts of the National Rural Health Mission funds spent in Uttar Pradesh and found shocking evidence of large scale embezzlement. The state health department failed to give proper details of spending worth around Rs.5,000 crore of the Rs.8,657 crore given to the state. It was also found that the entire [...]
The Government of India has coordinated a massive effort to rid our country of the terrible scourge of Polio that has scarred the lives of thousands of thousand of children in India and elsewhere in the world. So it is a matter of satisfaction that we have completed one year without any single new case of polio being reported from [...]
A senior official of the White Ribbon Alliance said Wednesday that women in India are still dying due to lack of birth planning among families and communities, and access to facilities. “Progress has been made on the issue of safe motherhood. But a lot still needs to be done,” said Aparajita Gogoi National Coordinator of the White Ribbon Alliance. “Advocacy [...]
Minimal physical activity, unhealthy diet, smoking and drinking are some of the reasons that are resulting in an increased number of chronic kidney diseases – especially among women – in both rural and urban India. With World Kidney Day celebrated March 8, doctors opined that immediate measures should be taken to the curb the rising numbers. “Diseases like diabetes, high [...]
In a study delving into the causes of backache among women, the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC) Wednesday said postural changes during the pregnancy months is when back pain problems begin in over 50 percent of cases. Out of 510 patients reporting back pain, nearly 43 percent were women. Among them, nearly 82 percent had done no exercises at all [...]
Weight loss supplements are not really effective in helping you shed weight and may have unpleasant or serious side-effects. Melinda Manore, from Oregon State University, reviewing evidence surrounding hundreds of weight loss supplements, concluded that no single product results in significant weight loss and many have side-effects. “What people want is to lose weight and maintain or increase lean tissue [...]
Cuba has unveiled a new AIDS vaccine which has successfully been tested on mice, and the country is ready to begin human testing soon, a media report said. The Teravac-HIV-1 vaccine designed to fight AIDS is the result of cutting edge genetic engineering techniques, and has been presented to more than 600 scientists from 38 countries attending the 24th International [...]
Blocking a brain compound may have a magical effect in burning fat, even if you gorge yourself and avoid the gym, a study reveals. For instance, mice modified to limit production of the brain compound, an endocannabinoid called 2-AG, did not gain any weight, even after being fed high fat diets and becoming sluggish. Neither did they develop any signs [...]
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