Health experts across the country have urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reject the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) before 19 July, deadline for ratifications.
With fears of Covid resurgence and the southwest monsoons knocking at the door, health experts at Kolkata Municipal Corporation are asserting strict dengue-malaria preventive measures to be followed by the citizens in the prevailing situation.
Amid detection of two cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) from Karnataka, Union Health Minister J P Nadda on Monday categorically said it is not a new virus and there is no reason to worry.
Lung cancer, long known to affect smokers, is seeing a significant rise in people who do not smoke, said doctors on Monday, raising concern over the shift.
Amid the rising pollution that has adversely impacted the health of adults and children alike, city experts underscored the dangers associated with the menace informing that 22 micrograms of particulate matter (PM2.5) is equivalent to smoking one cigarette in terms of damage.
Even as cancer cases are also rising in smaller cities in India, health experts stressed the need to expand oncology services to the country's tier-II cities.
With an alarming positivity rate of nearing 15 per cent covid-19 has already claimed 11 lives including a 15-yearold boy in the state during the last two weeks.
Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre (RGCIRC) organised a Neuro & Spine Onco Update at RGCIRC Rohini Delhi.
A special programme with the theme “To hear for life, listen with care” was organised by the Department of ENT, AIIMS Bhubaneswar in the campus to mark the occasion of World Hearing Day.
She praised the doctors and medical staff of IMS and SUM Hospital for their dedicated efforts to treat children with cancer.
