Health

Hyderabad, April 17 : GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. (GHIAL) on Tuesday announced that its cargo terminal has been certified with the World Health Organisation’s Good Storage and Distribution Practices (WHO-GSDP), awarded by SGS India, a le…

New Delhi, April 16 : Delhi has almost twice the concentration of the more lethal pollutant PM1, or particles with diameter less than one micron, as compared to other cities where its being measured, data from government agency showed.According to th…

Panaji, April 16 : Demanding to know the exact medical condition of ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, a Congress spokesperson on Monday said that even Governor Mridula Sinha was reluctant to give a health update on Parrikar to the Oppositio…

Mumbai, April 16 : Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, who is increasingly supporting social causes and cinema with a purpose, says helping a cause and spreading awareness among people makes him happy.Akshay has come on board as the face of a Happy Heart In…

According to the “OECD Health Statistics 2014: How Does India Compare” report, the overall health spending accounted for only four per cent of the GDP in India in 2012, out of which only 33 per cent of health spending was funded by public sources.Furth…

Gurugram, April 15 : Akanksha Gupta and Shelly Soni have been crowned winners at the third edition of Mrs Delhi-NCR that witnessed 60 contestants waking the ramp to spread the message of “beauty with a cause” and create awareness about breast cancer….

Bijapur (Chattisgarh) April 14 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the first Health and Wellness Centre to mark the launch of Ayushman Bharat Yojana here.The insurance scheme was approved by the Union Cabinet on March 21 with budge…

Our pursuit of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is largely dependent on equality in the distribution of resources and inclusive growth.In the 2017 SDG Index and Dashboards Report, assessing the performance of countries in terms of achievin…

New Delhi, April 14 : The Supreme Court on Friday said that a central government employee during service or after retirement can’t be denied the reimbursement of bill merely on the ground that during a medical emergency he took treatment from a priva…

New Delhi, April 13 : The Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern that a number of quacks practicing medicine are playing with the lives of people and posing a great risk to society.”A number of unqualified, untrained quacks are posing a great risk…