The World Health Organisation(WHO) has passed legislation that will no longer categorize being transgender as a mental disorder. The decision was taken following a major resolution to amend its health guidelines was approved earlier this week on May 25. According to the newly-updated version of the International Classification of Diseases (known as ICD-11), published by […]
Doctors at Narayana Health City have performed a rare procedure on conjoined twins who shared a single heart and successfully managed to save the life of one of the twins. The doctors performed what they claim the world’s first PDA stenting as well as the region’s first thoracopagus separation surgery to separate the twins. The […]
Burnout! We all know what it is and how it feels like to face that situation. A feeling of extreme stress, it is so common that everyone in any career is susceptible to burnout. The World Health Organisation, for the first time, has recognised burnout in the International Classification of Diseases, or the ICD-11, the […]
Doctors are often considered as lifesavers! While their long run to save lives keep them locked in the OP’s and OPD’s, several young physicians are going beyond their duty. They also find time to spend in labs to create gadgets that could make the patients’ lives easier. Ranging from a stethoscope to the pacemaker, some […]
The World Health Organisation has recently disclosed a new plan to cut reduce the deaths from snake bites and injuries, foreseeing that lack of antivenoms could lead to a “public health emergency” soon. Every year, nearly three million people are bitten by poisonous snakes, with an estimated 81,000-138,000 deaths. As per the WHO statistics, the […]
India is considered as the capital of coronary diseases globally. In India, sudden cardiac arrests kill over seven lakh people every year which means almost 2,000 people per day or about 80 every hour! The key reasons behind these staggering numbers are lack of life-saving equipment and the cost of treatment. In an attempt to […]
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has instructed the state health departments to increase conducting screening camps for students at schools. The decision was following the findings of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on an increased burden of non-communicable diseases in every state. “Looking at the findings of ICMR, we have found […]
The Union Health Ministry is Planning to offer peritoneal dialysis(PD) facility to kidney patients at their homes. The Health ministry has framed this proposal under Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme (PMNDP). PMNDP was launched in 2016 to provide free dialysis care to the patients in district hospitals. But PD, which is another form of standard […]
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority(NPPA) has slashed the retail prices of nine anti-cancer drugs, including commonly used chemotherapy injections to treat lung cancer by up to 87%. This major step aims in making cancer cure affordable to all the patients. According to the new order, the maximum retail price of chemotherapy injection pemetrexed (500mg) has […]
The government has ordered the state drug controllers not to allow companies to sell the drug formulations in which the composition has been changed while retaining the old name. This order may affect several widely selling old household brands of medicine. According to the official sources, the Drugs Controller General directed state regulatory authorities on […]