Health

New Delhi [India], May 31 : The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India, has launched the world’s first national tobacco control mass media campaign to warn people of the increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and dying from TB …

Washington D.C. [USA], May 31 : A study has recently found that a genetic change that may cause jaw malformation can also trigger hearing defects.Researchers from the University Of Southern California – Health Sciences explained that the structures sup…

New Delhi [India], May 31 : If you think smokeless tobacco or sheesha is not harmful for your health, think again.According to statistics, about six million people in India die every year due to tobacco consumption and approximately 163.7 million users…

New Delhi [India], May 31 : India is the second largest consumer of tobacco and related products. The country records over 8 to 9 lakh deaths every year due to tobacco-related diseases. It has also been observed that a majority of these are premature d…

New Delhi [India], May 31 : That one puff kills it all! In today’s time, smoking has not only become a part and parcel of daily life, but also ever increasing among people.Though people feel like quitting it, the call of addiction creates an obstructio…

New Delhi [India], May 31 : Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in the country today.Dr Santosh Kumar Agarwal, senior interventional cardiologist, Kailash Hospital and Heart Institute, Noida states, statistics indicate that nea…

New Delhi [India], May 31 : Medication that helps smokers to quit is safe for people with chronic lung conditions, research suggests.Experts say smokers with smoking-related diseases should be prescribed the drug to stop their illness from progressing….

New Delhi [India], May 31 : According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tobacco kills more than seven million people each year.Over six million deaths are a result of direct consumption, whereas 890 000 are the result of passive smoking. Nearly 1…

New Delhi [India], May 30 : Antibiotics or antimicrobial agents have been used for the last 70 years to treat patients who have infectious diseases.However, these drugs have been used so widely and for so long that the infectious organisms the antibiot…

New Delhi [India], May 30 : Bringing out the benefits to patients undergoing dental procedures and expanding dental technology, experts elaborate on how dental treatments can be painless, affordable and long lasting.Patients no longer have to wait to r…