Health

New Delhi, April 11 : In a faux pas, Jammu and Kashmir was excluded from the Indian map at an event organised by the Health Ministry on Wednesday.The map showed Jammu and Kashmir as distinct from other parts of India and Aksai Chin as part of China.T…

Imphal, April 11 : Normal life in Manipur was crippled on Wednesday due to a day-long shutdown called by an insurgent group opposing the proposed shifting of a hospital to Keirao from Sagolmang in Impahl East district.All educational institutions, bu…

New Delhi, April 10 : Weakening the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC-PNDT) Act, 1994, implemented to put a check on illegal sex determination, will encourage sex-determination tests, experts said on Tuesday.The Act, which was br…

Panaji, April 10 : Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is responding well to treatment in the US for advanced pancreatic cancer and will return from abroad by next month, BJP General Secretary Sadanand Shet Tanavade said on Tuesday.”He is resp…

New Delhi, April 10 : Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley could not undergo the kidney transplant surgery at the AIIMS, where he had been admitted for three days till Monday, as the donor’s organ “did not match”, hospital sources said on Tuesday.”The…

Panaji, April 10 : The Goa Health Ministry on Tuesday ordered a probe into the state’s first organ harvesting and transplantation exercise, five days after the kidneys and liver of a 60-year-old patient in Goa were transported to Mumbai and transplan…

New Delhi, April 10 : Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Janet Tobias says she admires the fact that India is striving to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025 — well before the global target date of 2030.She feels that India can not only eliminate the infe…

New Delhi, April 9 : The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Manish Bhandari – the oxygen supplier to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur where a large number of children died in 2017.Told that Bhandai had been in jail for seven months, a ben…

New Delhi, April 9 : The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Monday launched ‘Project Dhoop’, an initiative aimed at shifting the school assembly time to noon to ensure maximum absorption of Vitamin D in students through natural s…

New Delhi, April 9 : Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley left for home on Monday evening after undergoing dialysis for three days at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where he will have a kidney transplant surgery soon.”Jaitley has gone…