Shimla, March 3 (Inditop.com) A new swine flu case has been reported in Himachal Pradesh after a gap of over a month, a health department official said here Wednesday.
With this, the number of Influenza A (H1N1) cases in the state has risen to 45.
“A 54-year-old man was admitted to Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical [...]
London, March 2 (Inditop.com) Even premature babies are capable of recognising and distinguishing two objects of different shapes (a prism and a cylinder) with their right or left hands, a new study has found.
The sense organs and sensory systems of premature babies are less efficient than those of full-term babies, though the latter are also [...]
New Delhi, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) Terming heart disease a major challenge for a developing nation like India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said the country had lost 9.2 million potentially productive years of life because of the lifestyle disease.
“It has been estimated that India lost about 9.2 million potentially productive years of life in 2000, [...]
New Delhi, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) Saying the Indian Medical Mission was devoted to serving in Afghanistan despite uncertainty, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday expressed condolence to the families of Indian medical professionals who lost their lives or were injured in the Kabul terror attack a day earlier.
“As I stand before you, my thought goes to [...]
Washington, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) The roots of many adult diseases lie in poverty and other burdens on the socially disadvantaged, says a new study.
Rockefeller University’s Bruce S. McEwen, self-styled molecular sociologist, highlighted the effects such environmental stressors have on the brain and in turn other organ systems.
McEwen, neuroendocrinologist, will show how negative daily life experiences, [...]
Washington, Feb 27 (Inditop.com) Unlocking the secrets of how the body heals itself, especially when organs become diseased, a new study shows that the presence of small particles known as microvesicles helps cellular communication and enables healing.
Microvesicles are much smaller than a normal cell and contain genetic information such as messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA), other [...]
New Delhi, Feb 26 (Inditop.com) India’s health budget has gone up by Rs.2,700 crore to Rs.22,300 crore (Rs.223 billion/$4.82 billion) with special focus on rural and public health.
Presenting the 2010-11 budget to parliament, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said: “I propose to increase the plan allocation for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare from Rs.19,534 [...]
New Delhi, Feb 26 (Inditop.com) India’s public health budget has gone up by Rs.1,253 crore, with special focus on AIDS control and mental health programmes and the prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
Of the total Rs.22,300 crore (Rs.223 billion/$4.82 billion) health budget, about Rs. 3,181 crore has been earmarked for various schemes to benefit the [...]