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Bengaluru: Cipla Foundation Wednesday announced a partnership with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to set up the Cipla Foundation Centre for Pulmonary Medicine at the Tata IISc Medical School. The facility will provide diagnostics, outpatient and inpatient care, a dedicated intensive care unit, and high-dependency services for the treatment of respiratory illnesses.The Centre for…
NEW DELHI: With Chikungunya continuing to leave thousands of Indians with prolonged and debilitating joint pain, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has moved to fast-track a potential antiviral treatment, inviting Indian companies to help develop and manufacture an experimental RNA-based therapy.The initiative comes amid a sustained disease burden. World Health Organisation surveillance data…
File photo (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) firmly rejected claims linking eggs to cancer risk, saying eggs sold in India are safe for consumption and that recent reports and social media posts are scientifically unsupported and alarmist.Clarifying concerns over alleged presence of nitrofuran metabolites (AOZ), the…
NEW DELHI: What if spotting a cluster of fevers or sudden diarrhoea cases in your neighbourhood could help stop an outbreak? A new nationwide system launched by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is now making that possible — by turning ordinary citizens into the country’s earliest disease sentinels.At the heart of the system…
NEW DELHI: With 75% of new human diseases originating in animals, India is stepping up efforts to bridge the gap between human, animal and environmental health. Govt is set to launch ‘National One Health Mission’, a Rs 383 crore cross-ministerial initiative to build coordinated surveillance, research and response systems to prevent outbreaks like Covid, Nipah,…
NEW DELHI: Noting that India continues to report one of the world’s highest rabies-related mortality and there has been disturbing and alarming increase in dog-bite incidents making public places unsafe, Supreme Court on Friday directed that stray dogs be removed from the premises of educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus stands/depots and railway stations and…
