Category: Health

The All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) has announced the names of 18 winners of pan-India Ayush Master Chef Competition that was launched on March 31, 2022. The winners have been selected out of 30 contestants, who battled it out in the final round of the competition held at the Global Ayush Investment & Innovation […]

Exposure to certain traffic-related air pollutants is associated with a greater likelihood of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus, claims an observational study of young adults. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, showed associations between infection risk and exposure to particles with a diameter less than 10 micrometres (PM10) and 2.5 micrometres (PM2.5), two days […]

A Keralite doctor in Abu Dhabi wrote himself into record books when he performed the first paediatric stem cell bone marrow transplant in the UAE. Dr Zainul Aabideen, a native of Kannur, presently Head of the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Burjeel Medical City successfully performed the advanced allogeneic procedure on a five-year-old […]

US scientists have created a first-of-its-kind roadmap that traces each step in the development of blood stem cells in the human embryo. The map will provide scientists with a blueprint for producing fully functional blood stem cells in the lab. The research, published in the journal Nature, could help expand treatment options for blood cancers […]

SATO, a well known name in accessible hygiene and sanitation solutions, has always worked towards the betterment of the community. With an objective of reaching and connecting with people where there is still a lack of accessibility and information related to handwashing, SATO has launched its new campaign #DhuDial to make hand hygiene easy and […]

Doctors at a private hospital here performed a rare surgery on a 60 year-old male patient with a tumour in the lower part of neck and protruding into the upper part of chest causing breathing difficulties. The size of the tumour was found approximately 6 cm in the lower part of neck and upper chest […]

Scientists have constructed the first single-cell atlas of postnatal lung development in humans and mice. The map will help answer how lungs develop after taking their first breaths outside the womb and what cellular events and changes early in life give rise to lung malfunction and diseases. The research could also help provide a more […]

Special Olympics Bharat, a registered charitable trust that uses sports as an equaliser for those with intellectual disability, on Wednesday launched an initiative to offer free health screening to 75,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities in over 75 cities in India that includes health screening of over 10,000 such athletes across 33 districts in Gujarat. Of […]

All India Institute of Ayurveda (AllA), the apex institute of Ayurveda in India under the Ministry of AYUSH, and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital (VMMC & SJ Hospital) have signed an MoU to develop a unique centre of excellence model Integrative Health Facility in the country for tertiary care. As per the agreement, […]

As a part of Apollo’s initiative of providing advanced treatment to people across the country, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi conducted a Press Conference with the healthcare fraternity of Ahmedabad at Hotel Fairfield by Marriott. Lead by, Dr M S Kanwar, Lead Lung Transplant and COVID Team, Senior Consultant & Advisor Department of Pulmonology, Critical […]