-The Hindu Tuberculosis (TB) has remained a major infectious disease in developing and poor countries despite all efforts from health agencies to manage and control it. In fact, even an easy and effective way to diagnose the disease has remained a challenge. Emergence of drug resistant strains has made its management more complex. The steps It makes the situation in countries like India, with the highest TB burden in the world, even more...
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Fixing policy govt’s job: SC
-The Telegraph The Supreme Court has said it wants to end judicial monitoring of social welfare schemes, saying the task should be left to experts and courts “can’t be setting economic policy”. The court had earlier taken umbrage at the government for fixing the poverty line at a measly Rs 32 per day per person in urban areas and suggested free distribution of foodgrain, causing consternation in the government which felt that...
More »Bihar orders inquiry into cases of removal of uterus: Centre -K Balchand
-The Hindu The Centre on Tuesday said Bihar and Chhattisgarh had initiated investigation into the alleged removal of uteruses of BPL women as part of a fraud to corner insurance money. Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad laid a copy of his statement, made in response to a calling attention motion sponsored by a host of MPs led by Lok Jan Shakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan, in the Rajya...
More »UN Population Fund to Work for Women Welfare in MP
-PTI The United Nations Population Fund will participate in women empowerment schemes in Madhya Pradesh, fund's country head Fredrica Major has said. Terming them as wonderful, Major lauded the women welfare programmes being conducted in the state, during a meeting with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here last evening, an official release said today. Chouhan informed her about the 'Beti Bachao Abhiyan' (save the girl child campaign) and various women empowerment schemes going...
More »Mobile base station radiation limit will be cut from September 1 -Shalini Singh
-The Hindu No adverse short- or long-term health effects from emissions, government tells Parliament The Union government has told Parliament that the exposure limit of radio frequency fields (base station emissions) will be brought down to one-tenth of the existing level from September 1. This was to have been implemented from April 1. However, on an examination of the impact of the revised Electric and Magnetic Field (EMF) exposure limit on area coverage...
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