All men and women above 30 to be screened for diabetes in 100 districts by March 2021 The Union health ministry has released the findings of the results of the first round of the nation-wide campaign for screening diabetes in rural areas. Pathanamthitta district of Kerala has the maximum number of diabetics—16 per cent people in the district suffer from the lifestyle disease. Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh has the least...
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Tuberculosis breakthrough as scientists get funds for 'electronic nose' by Mark Tran
A mobile device that detects TB by 'sniffing' a person's breath will make a huge impact in villages far from health facilities A team of Indian researchers are planning to have a prototype of an "electronic nose" that can detect tuberculosis from a person's breath in hospitals by October 2013, after receiving a $950,000 grant on Monday. Working on the same principles as a breathalyser, the device – if successful – could...
More »History wasn't made by ‘can't doers': Kalam
-The Hindu Allays apprehensions about Kudankulam nuclear plant If the great Chola emperor Raja Raja Chola I had believed for a moment that his monumental structure will be brought down in an earthquake, would we have got the magnificent Brihadeeswara Temple? Or, if Homi Bhabha had decided that radiation is too harmful for citizens, will the country be running a safe and successful atomic power programme for the last 40 years, producing 4,700...
More »ICMR urges govt to make cancer a notifiable disease by Kounteya Sinha
India recorded 9.8 lakh new cases of cancer last year, an increase of about 80,000 new cases as compared to 2009. Top cancer scientists from across the country along with Union health ministry officials and experts from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) met at the annual review meeting of the National Cancer Registry Programme in Guwahati to discuss the worrying trend over the last two days. This figure was...
More »Fertility drug ban after 4 years of use by GS Mudur
The Union health ministry today banned the manufacture and sale of a drug called letrozole to treat infertility in women, four years after its own drug regulators had waived safety studies and relaxed rules to approve the medicine. In a statement notifying the ban, the ministry said the drug “is likely to involve risk to human beings and safer alternatives are available”. The drug has been used to treat breast cancer in...
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