Health Ministry seeks report from Delhi Govt over death of child due to Dengue
Sep 13, 2015, at 02:19 am
New Delhi, Sept 12 (IBNS) The Health & Family Welfare Ministry on Saturday said it has sought a report from the Delhi government on the death of a child in Delhi due to Dengue and the subsequent suicide of his parents, as reported in media on Saturday.
U.S. Ambassador convenes corporate leaders for TB-Free India
Sep 11, 2015, at 04:22 am
Mumbai, Sept 10 (IBNS): The U.S. Ambassador to India Richard Verma on Thursday launched the 'Mumbai Dialogue: Towards a TB-Free India' along with legendary Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan Tata, Chairman, Sir Ratan Tata Trusts.
Focus on neglected tropical diseases: WHO
Sep 10, 2015, at 08:08 pm
Kolkata, Sept 10 (IBNS): The World Health Organization has called for renewed commitments and focused efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases - kala azar, leprosy, yaws, lymphatic filariasis and schistosomiasis - which continue to disable, disfigure and kill people in the WHO South-East Asia Region.
Urgent action needed to prevent a return to pre-antibiotic era: WHO
Sep 10, 2015, at 12:11 am
Kolkata, Sept 9 (IBNS): Cautioning that indiscriminate use of antibiotics and other drugs is increasingly leading to resistance to medicines, persistence of infections, and treatment failure, the World Health Organization has urged member countries in South-East Asia Region to urgently address this threat to public health.
Kolkata join hands to help underprivileged cancer patients at Tata Medical Center
Sep 09, 2015, at 11:24 pm
Kolkata, Sept 9 (IBNS): Leading citizens from Kolkata came together recently to raise funds for the treatment of underprivileged cancer patients, at the Tata Medical Center in Kolkata, through the 'Dil Sey Deejiye' campaign.
Columbia Asia to Build Next-Gen Hospital Management System with Microsoft
Sep 07, 2015, at 09:42 pm
New Delhi Sept 7 (IBNS) : International healthcare group Columbia Asia has partnered with Microsoft to evolve a next-generation cloud ready hospital management system to meet its emerging enterprise needs. Columbia Asia is currently using its proprietary hospital management system, Care21.
GSAT-6 put in its orbital slot: ISRO
Sep 07, 2015, at 01:42 am
Bangalore, Sept 6 (IBNS): The Indian Space Research Organisation on Sunday said military communication satellite GSAT-6 has been positioned in its orbital slot.
National nutrition week underway in West Bengal
Sep 05, 2015, at 05:58 pm
Kolkata, Sep 5 (IBNS): Like every year, National Nutrition week will be celebrated from 1st-7th September by the Dept of Child Development and Women Development and Social Welfare, Government of West Bengal in association with UNICEF Kolkata.
Soyuz heads to Space Station with new crew
Sep 03, 2015, at 03:24 am
California, Sept 2 (IBNS) Three crew members representing Russia, Denmark and Kazakhstan have launched to the International Space Station to provide a new ride home for the station’s one-year crew and continue important research that advances NASA's journey to Mars.
Medical device industry call upon government to empower domestic manufacture
Sep 03, 2015, at 03:09 am
New York, Sept 2 (IBNS) Industry leaders participating FICCI Heal 2015 have called upon the Government to take strong measures to drive the consumption of medical devices in the country, bring clarity to regulatory policy, correct inverse import duties and provide fiscal incentives to give the domestic manufacture of medical devices a strong impetus for growth and turn India into a global innovation hub for medical technology.
Ministers from South-East Asia meet in Dili to set health priorities
Sep 01, 2015, at 09:15 pm
Kolkata , Sept 1 (IBNS): Health Ministers of the 11 countries of WHO’s South-East Asia Region are meeting in Dili, Timor-Leste, from Sept 7-11 to set health priorities and discuss the health agenda for the region.
ATLAS and CMS experiments shed light on Higgs properties
Sep 01, 2015, at 07:28 pm
Geneva/Saint Petersburg, Sept 1 (IBNS): Three years after the announcement of the discovery of a new particle, the so-called Higgs boson, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations presented for the first time combined measurements of many of its properties, at the third annual Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP 2015).
First orbit raising operation of GSAT-6 held successfully: ISRO
Aug 30, 2015, at 12:30 am
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IBNS) Days after the launch of GSAT-6, the ISRO on Saturday said India's latest communication satellite has performed its first orbit raising operation.
UN health agency unveils sanitation and hygiene plan towards eradicating tropical diseases by 2020
Aug 28, 2015, at 06:12 pm
New York, Aug 28 (IBNS): The World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday announced that it is strengthening water, sanitation and hygiene services to accelerate progress in eliminating and eradicating neglected tropical diseases by 2020 that affect more than 1 billion of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations.
GSLV successfully launches India's latest Communication Satellite GSAT-6
Aug 28, 2015, at 01:50 am
Sriharikota, Aug 27 (IBNS) In its ninth flight (GSLV-D6) conducted on Thursday, India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, equipped with the indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS), successfully launched GSAT-6, the country's latest communication satellite, into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).
India launches GSLV carrying GSAT6 satellite from Sriharikota
Aug 27, 2015, at 10:46 pm
Sriharikota, Aug 27 (IBNS): India on Thursday launched communication satellite GSAT-6 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
PM Modi inaugurates two-day "Call to Action Summit-2015 in New Delhi
Aug 27, 2015, at 09:47 pm
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IBNS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day "Call to Action Summit-2015-ending preventable child and maternal deaths", organized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and the Ministry of Health, Government of Ethiopia, here on Thursday.
India has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus: PM Narendra Modi
Aug 27, 2015, at 09:08 pm
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IBNS): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India has achieved a 'milestone' as the country has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus.
Aug 27, 2015, at 04:28 pm
New York, Aug 27 (IBNS) Sierra Leone on Wednesday began its countdown to be declared by the World Health Organization as free of Ebola virus transmission as the West African nation's President described the release of the last patient treated for the disease at a treatment centre as "the beginning of the end of Ebola."
Ebola response panel studying ways to enforce compliance with key UN legal health instrument
Aug 27, 2015, at 04:14 pm
New York, Aug 27 (IBNS) A special United Nations international panel reviewing the role of existing international health regulations in the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is studying the use of possible sanctions and other mechanisms to ensure better compliance with what it described as "a very important legal instrument in order to improve the global health security."
UK Minister promotes Climate Action Plan in Kolkata
Aug 27, 2015, at 05:02 am
Kolkata, Aug 26 (IBNS): UK Minister of State for International Development Desmond Swayne, visited Kolkata on Tuesday to see work under the UK-Kolkata Municipal Corporation partnership to develop Kolkata into a low-carbon and climate resilient city.
UK Minister and Sovan Chatterjee conducts sensitization program on climate change in Kolkata
Aug 27, 2015, at 04:55 am
Kolkata, Aug 25 (IBNS) The British might have left India a long time ago but their love for the 'City of Joy' remains undeterred and unblemished to this day and to protect Kolkata from the jaws of pollution, develop it into a low-carbon and climate resilient city, Desmond Swayne, UK Minister of State for International Development, visited Kolkata on Tuesday and along with Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, promoted climate action in Kolkata.
UNICEF organizes health and sanitation awareness program for women and children in West Bengal
Aug 26, 2015, at 03:39 am
Kolkata, Aug 25 (IBNS): UNICEF has conducted the first ever consultation program to address the health and sanitation crisis faced by women and children in West Bengal in collaboration with faith-based organizations.
Ravi Shankar Prasad launches govt's SEHAT initiative
Aug 25, 2015, at 09:29 pm
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IBNS): Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications and Information Technology and Minister of Law and Justice launched the government's latest health and IT initiative called SEHAT ( Social Endeavour for Health And Telemedicine ) at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on Tuesday.
Ebola aftermath is 'best chance' to transform future epidemic response - UN health agency
Aug 25, 2015, at 03:40 pm
New York, Aug 25 (IBNS) The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday warned that infectious diseases have become "a much larger menace" under the unique conditions of the 21st century with its unprecedented global travel volume of nearly 100,000 flights carrying 8.6 million passengers every day.
Union Minister Harsh Vardhan visits Centre for Nano Sciences
Aug 23, 2015, at 06:32 pm
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IBNS): Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan visited the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences in Bangalore on Saturday.
Kolkata's Fortis Hospital launches 'Attack the Attack' campaign
Aug 22, 2015, at 09:33 pm
Kolkata, Aug 22 (IBNS) Cardiac arrest claims around 20 lakh lives annually in India alone and to advocate a change and bring about awareness, Kolkata's Fortis Hospital launched its latest program 'Attack The Attack' on Friday in Kolkata.
NASA to test emergency locator transmitters by crashing airplane
Aug 22, 2015, at 04:49 pm
California, Aug 22 (IBNS) Using a Cessna 172 dropped from a height of 100 feet, NASA's Search and Rescue Mission Office will simulate a severe but survivable plane accident Wednesday, Aug. 26 to test emergency locator transmitters (ELTs). NASA Television will air live coverage of the test, which is scheduled to happen between 1 and 2 p.m. EDT.
Clouded Leopard cub admitted at IFAW-WTI run Wildlife Transit Home in Assam
Aug 22, 2015, at 02:49 am
Guwahati, Aug 21 (IBNS): A male clouded leopard cub aged between three to six months was admitted at International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) - Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) run Wildlife Transit Home at Kokrajhar in Assam on Aug 13.
Long working hours may increase the risk of a stroke
Aug 22, 2015, at 01:36 am
London, Aug 21 (IBNS) Working long may help one earn a few extra dollars, but it will come at a great cost, affecting our health.