Pilgrims carry holy water from Sangam during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on February 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP The Uttar Pradesh jails department is making arrangements to take holy water from Maha Kumbh, Prayagraj, to all major jails across the State, allowing inmates to participate in the Maha Kumbh festival. The … Read more
NHS leaders have acknowledged a recovery plan for dentistry in England, launched by the previous Conservative government a year ago, has comprehensively failed. One aspect of the plan – ‘Golden Hello’ payments to encourage dentists to start working in underserved areas – has seen only 39 dentists appointed out of a target of 240. Another … Read more
Speaker M. Appavu meeting Governor R.N. Ravi at the Raj Bhavan in Chennai on Friday. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Ahead of the first Assembly session of the year, scheduled to commence on January 6, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Speaker M. Appavu called on Governor R.N. Ravi at the Raj Bhavan here on Friday and … Read more
Panaji: The All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) raised objections to the proposed collaboration between Swiggy Instamart and PharmEasy for ten-minute medicine deliveries via dark stores, citing potential legal standards violations and public health risks. AIOCD’s Goa president J S Shinde said that this partnership could likely ignore essential standards like proper prescription … Read more
The BJP on Sunday asserted that Centre’s schemes have not just benefited agriculture but have been instrumental in elevating Punjab on the socio-economic pedestal. This comes even as the party’s Lok Sabha candidates in Punjab continue to face backlash from farmer organisations, who blame the party for adopting an anti-farmer stance, The BJP also hit … Read more
Under the PMGKAY, free foodgrains are to be provided to about 81.35 crore beneficiaries of Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and Priority Households (PHH). Photo: Special Arrangement In the run-up to the 2024 general election expected to be held between April and May, the Central government is ensuring that the brand of Prime Minister Narendra Modi … Read more
New Delhi: Everyone takes care of their health, very few people take care of their health records. Harsh Parikh and Sohit Kapoor have had personal experiences of dealing with missing health records that created a lot of avoidable issues and stress for their families. Unlike in the US, where the network of the health insurance … Read more
Chandigarh: If all goes well, PGI’s department of telemedicine will soon start using drones for transportation of organs, besides delivering medicines at remote and tough terrain of Himachal Pradesh. This will do away with the compulsion to transport retrieved organs within a 20km radius and the need for a green corridor. The aerial radius of … Read more
Bhopal: Health technology assessment is the way forward to deliver equitable, efficient health for all, said Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, professor, Dr Ritu Priya here on Sunday. She was the keynote speaker at the Dr Ajay Khare Memorial Lecture at Gandhi Bhawan. Dr BK Iqbal was honoured with … Read more
London: Researchers have leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) technology to identify genes critical to a cancer cell’s survival, and could help deliver personalised cancer patient treatments, according to a new study. They analysed different types of cancer cells to understand different gene dependencies for identifying the genes, the study said. Researchers at the University of Sussex, … Read more