London, March 7 (IANS) Those red meat balls and ready-to-eat nuggets that you pick up from the supermarket may actually put you at an increased gut cancer risk, scientists warned. In humans, they found the link between red and processed meat intake and cancer to be relatively small in magnitude but consistent. “Therefore, it may still […]
Parents of children aged 12-13 years are being urged to take advantage of the free Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination available through the school-based National HPV Vaccination Program. Males aged 14-15 years are also eligible to receive the free vaccine until the end of the year as part of the national catch-up program. The program consists […]
London, March 6 (IANS) Actress Cameron Diaz has irked anti-smoking charities after confessing at a chat show that “one cigarette once in a while is not going to kill you”. She left the critics fuming after claiming that cigarettes were healthier than diet coke. The 41-year-old star used to smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day […]
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) India needs greater convergence of all stakeholders towards the common goal of an improved health care delivery system, President Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday. “It is also important not to lose focus on the fact that a powerful driver of health is education,” the president said after receiving recommendations from the Healthcare […]
Here is a method that can potentially nip the threat of cancer in the bud. A team of researchers from University of South Carolina has developed a new way to detect a handful of lurking tumour cells – even if they are in the ratio of a billion to one in the bloodstream with healthy […]
Listen to your grandmother when it comes to garlic and its health benefits. Don’t throw ‘sprouted’ garlic – old garlic bulbs with bright green shoots emerging from the cloves – in the garbage as it has more heart-healthy antioxidant activity than its fresher counterparts. People have used garlic for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. […]
Broccoli may not be your favorite food, especially kids who run just by the name of this vegetable. But a number of researches have suggested that this vegetable can be considered a ‘Super Vegetable’ with all its qualities which sends your health soaring, from boosting immunity to strengthening your skeleton and joints to cutting cancer […]
China has prosecuted over 10,000 people in last three years since 2011 for production and sale of substandard and poisonous food, Chinese Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) said here Friday. According to statistics from SPP, the highest agency at the national level responsible for both prosecution and investigation in the People’s Republic of China, prosecutors also […]
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday laid the foundation stone for a super speciality wing and an emergency block at the Safdarjung Hospital here as part of its redevelopment project. One of Delhi’s oldest and among the first hospitals, it is visited by hundreds of patients every day. The infrastructure upgradation of the hospital is […]
A new vaccine has been included under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) in the past three years, parliament was informed Friday. “Based on the recommendation of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI), one new vaccine – haemohilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine as Pentavalent vaccine combination (DPT+Hib+Hepatitis B) has been included under UIP […]