Women with some heart disease are more likely to give birth to girls, says a study conducted by a university in Iran. It found that 75 percent of the 216 children born to 200 pregnant women with diagnosed heart diseases were girls. “We believe that this is the first study looking at the relationship between [...]
In order to enhance the Rural Healthcare and Innovation in Bihar, Bihar Innovation Lab is being setup by Centre for Knowledge Societies with the collaborative effort of Bihar Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Lab will enable collaboration amongst various partners of the Foundation such as (but not limited to) Care, BBC World Services Trust, World [...]
Timely intervention by intensive care unit employees saved 64 young lives from choking to death at a hospital here Saturday. A major tragedy was averted at the Guwahati Medical College and Hospitals (GMCH) when employees detected dense smoke coming out of the neo-natal intensive care unit around 1 a.m. and took immediate steps to ensure [...]
The World Heart Federation (WHF), a global NGO dedicated to prevention of heart diseases in low- and middle-income countries, elected its first ever Indian president, a federation statement said Saturday. K. Srinath Reddy is currently the president of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and former head of cardiology at the All India Institute [...]
A cancer patient who stabbed a doctor in a Beijing hospital has been sentenced to 15 years in jail. The Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court Friday also ordered Wang Baoming to pay a fine of 530,000 yuan ($84,048), Xinhua reported. Wang, 54, stabbed Xu Wen, a surgeon at Tongren Hospital, 18 times in her arms, [...]
Bihar Government has come up with a unique way to identify the medical history of Children. Each Child would be wearing Taveez or amulet fitted with a radio frequency identification chip with their complete medical history. The initiative is part of the Bihar Innovation Lab project by innovation consultancy firm Centre for Knowledge Societies (CKS), [...]
Rajasthan:- Arti Dogra, a young IAS officer of 2006 cadre in Rajasthan, has won accolades for her unique initiatives to check Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) as the District Magistrate of Bundi district The first-of-its-kind High Risk Pregnancy Tracking System Programme, a brainchild of 32-year-old Dogra after she took over as the DM in 2010, helped [...]
More than a million people across India are expected to be part of a ‘Yogathon’on Saturday performing ‘Surya Namaskars’ (Salutations to the Sun) to mark World Health Day. The ‘yogathon’ is being organized by the Bangalore-based Art of Living (AoL) founded by spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. “This unique nation-wide initiative by The Art [...]
Brushing your teeth twice daily may be sensible advice, but rubbing toothpaste on your gums after lunch also hugely lowers the risk of developing cavities. “Rubbing toothpaste on to your teeth (and gums) increases the flouride protection by 400 percent,” said Anna Nordstrom from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden who led the study. “This ‘massage’ [...]
Drugs against Cancer are getting developed day by day strenthening the cure for this disease. Recently an Iranian scientist has developed a gas-filled aspirin that can boost the cancer-fighting ability of the drug, the Iranian Students News agency (ISNA) reported. Khosrow Kashfi, associate medical professor and Chemistry, Physiology and Pharmacology coordinator at the City College [...]
