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5 days ago |
thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan
Public Primary Health Centres (PHCs) are better prepared for diabetes and hypertension care than Sub-Centres, Community Health Centres (CHCs), and Sub-District Hospitals, a study undertaken by the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (ICMR-NCDIR), Bengaluru has found. A cross-sectional survey of health facilities was conducted in 19 districts of seven States in India, which included an assessment of both public and private health facilities.
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1 week ago |
thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan
The Indian Medical Association on Friday (May 30, 2025) condemned the proposed introduction of an integrated course combining MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) and BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery) programmes at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry. Calling the move “unfortunate”, it said this “unscientific mixing of various systems of medicines will not benefit doctors or patients’‘.
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1 week ago |
thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan
Terming the criminal charges against associate professor of Political Science Ashoka University, Ali Khan Mahmudabad, “outrageous and absurd”, the ‘Constitutional Conduct Group’, comprising 79 former civil servants, in a statement on Thursday (May 29, 2025) said that Mr. Mahmudabad’s two social media posts related to Operation Sindoor, for which he has been charged, were in fact “thoughtful and measured”.
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1 week ago |
thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan
The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised all member states, including India, to continue applying a risk-based, integrated approach to manage the incidence of COVID-19. Since mid-February 2025, according to data available from sentinel sites, global SARS-CoV-2 activity had been increasing, with test positivity rate reaching 11%, levels that have not been observed since July 2024, the global health body has confirmed.
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1 week ago |
thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan
One of the critical gaps in cancer care in India is the lack of adequate diagnostic services, finds the latest report by the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), an advisory body to the Central government for health policy and planning. India is recording nearly 200,000 new cancer cases each year, the report adds.
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