| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| “Miracle Suit” inspired by NASA rese | California, Apr 29 (IBNS) In 1969, NASA Ames Research Center received an unusual call for help: a local woman was still bleeding weeks after giving birth, despite every attempt to halt it — including nine surgeries. | 29-Apr-2016 |
| NASA helps forecast Zika risk | California, Apr 28 (IBNS) NASA is assisting public health officials, scientists and communities to better understand Zika virus and try to limit the spread of the disease it causes. | 28-Apr-2016 |
| Young gay and bisexual men six times mor | London, Apr 27 (IBNS) Young gay and bisexual men are at significantly greater risk of poor mental health than older men in that group, according to new research published in the Journal of Public Health. | 27-Apr-2016 |
| India is moving towards global polio era | New Delhi, Apr 27 (IBNS) Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said on Wednesday that India is moving towards global polio eradication. | 27-Apr-2016 |
| On World Malaria Day, a push to eliminat | Geneva, Apr 25 (IBNS) A year after the World Health Assembly resolved to eliminate malaria from at least 35 countries by 2030, WHO is releasing a World Malaria Day report that shows this goal, although ambitious, is achievable. | 25-Apr-2016 |
| CSE supports global move to urge Coke an | New Delhi, Apr 24 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) along with health groups from across the globe such as the World Public Health Nutrition Association, World Obesity Federation, Consumers International and Center for Science in the Public Interest, have called on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to adopt and enforce a policy of not marketing sugar drinks to children aged 16 and under. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Medicine Boxes unveiled at Priya | Kolkata, Apr 23 (IBNS) As part of a unique CSR campaign the entertainment industry leaders of the East, Priya Entertainments Pvt Ltd is introducing MEDICINE BANK at PRIYA and all other centres in West Bengal and at Agartala Tripura too. | 24-Apr-2016 |
| Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurates the Paragon | Kohima, Apr 22 (IBNS) Union Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr Harsh Vardhan, on his visit to the Department of Bio-Technology (DBT)-funded Healthcare Laboratory and Research Centre at the Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK) earlier this week, inaugurated the Paragonimiasis Research Lab (PRL) there. | 22-Apr-2016 |
| Patient brought back to life after his h | Kolkata, Apr 19 (IBNS): In a complex procedure that reflected its commitment to technological advancement with its path breaking work, Fortis Malar took a leap forward by by using Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) to revive a man nearly 45 minutes after his heart had stopped beating. | 19-Apr-2016 |
| Lowered birth rates one reason why women | Stockholm, Apr 19 (IBNS) Using unique demographic records on 140,600 reproducing individuals from the Utah Population Database (USA), a research team led from Uppsala University has come to the conclusion that lowered birth rates are one reason why women outlive men in today’s societies. The study is published in Scientific Reports. | 19-Apr-2016 |
| New study finds shifted sleep-wake cycle | London, Apr 19 (IBNS) A new study from the Surrey Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey, published on Tuesday in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) has found that shifted sleep-wake cycles affect men and women’s brain function differently. | 19-Apr-2016 |
| Kolkata: Fortis Hospital launches heart | Kolkata, Apr 16 (IBNS): Kolkata's Fortis Hospital, along with Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai recently launched the Heart Failure Clinic & Advanced Therapy Program for the people of Eastern India. | 17-Apr-2016 |
| Former Indian captain takes initiative t | Kolkata, Apr 13 (IBNS): Tata Medical Center recently announced their fund raising activity, ‘Dada’r Shongey Dil Sey Dijiye’, in collaboration with former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly, to facilitate the phase –II expansion of the critical oncology cure unit of Tata Medical Center hospital. | 13-Apr-2016 |
| Brett Lee in India on an awareness drive | Bangalore, Apr 11 (IBNS): Former Australian cricketer Brett Lee, Cochlear’s Global Hearing Ambassador, is in Bangalore for the second innings of the 'Sounds of Cricket' campaign. | 11-Apr-2016 |
| WHO India honours public health champion | New Delhi, Apr 8 (IBNS) At a national consultation held on Thursday at New Delhi jointly with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (GoI) to commemorate the World Health Day 2016 , the WHO Country Office for India gave out awards for Public Health Champions. | 08-Apr-2016 |
| On World Health Day, CSE calls for gover | New Delhi, Apr 6 (IBNS), : This year’s World Health Day on Diabetes is most significant for a country like India. | 07-Apr-2016 |
| Haryana joins the Call to action for a T | Kolkata/Gurgaon, Apr 7 (IBNS): Medanta – The Medicity hospital organized a conference on Lung Health and Tuberculosis (TB) on Thursday to discuss the need for improved TB diagnosis to make Haryana TB-Free. | 07-Apr-2016 |
| Union health minister launches new e-hea | New Delhi, Apr 7 (IBNS) Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, J P Nadda, on the occasion of World Health Day on Thursday, launched several new e-health and m-health initiatives, including the ‘Swasth Bharat Mobile application’, the ‘ANM Online application-ANMOL’, the ‘E-RaktKosh initiative', and ‘India Fights Dengue’. | 07-Apr-2016 |
| Robotic Surgeons to meet in Delhi | New Delhi, Apr 6 (IBNS) Nearly 200 surgeons from India converge at New Delhi, this week, to update themselves on the latest developments in Computer Assisted Robotic Surgery. | 06-Apr-2016 |
| Fortis Healthcare Executive Chairman fel | New Delhi, Apr 6 (IBNS): Malvinder Mohan Singh, Executive Chairman, Fortis Healthcare Limited was conferred with Entrepreneur of the year Award at the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards (APEA 2016) function in Delhi. | 06-Apr-2016 |
| Apollo Hospitals works with Google to ad | New Delhi, Apr 5 (IBNS): In yet another effort towards their vision of empowering people with credible and quality Healthcare information, Apollo Hospitals has worked with Google to add health information to Google’s Knowledge in India. | 05-Apr-2016 |
