24 Mar, 2024 4:58 PM
Seoul, March 24 (IANS) President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday urged Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to consult with political parties to seek a flexible process in suspending the licenses of striking trainee doctors, the Presidential office said.
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23 Mar, 2024 5:14 PM
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Working together can help India to be free of tuberculosis (TB), said President Droupadi Murmu, on Friday, on the eve of World TB Day on March 24.
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23 Mar, 2024 5:02 PM
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The government’s TB Mukt Panchayat Initiative has the potential to help India curb the spread of tuberculosis (TB), as it engages the local community to create widespread awareness of the deadly disease.
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23 Mar, 2024 1:17 PM
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Missing cases of Tuberculosis (TB) coupled with diagnostic and treatment delays are the major roadblocks in India’s mission to end the deadly infection in the country by 2025, said Dr. Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, the former head of India’s TB elimination programme at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (as Deputy Director General – TB) on Saturday.
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22 Mar, 2024 1:21 PM
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Despite the availability of an effective vaccine against the Hepatitis B virus for over 30 years, its uptake has been low in India due to poor knowledge and lack of awareness, according to a study by Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
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20 Mar, 2024 2:21 PM
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Motivational speaker Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder of Isha Foundation, recently underwent a brain surgery after a life-threatening bleeding, the organisation reported on Wednesday.
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20 Mar, 2024 10:21 AM
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Delhi Traffic Police provided a 16-kilometre green corridor and facilitated transport of a cadaveric liver from IGI airport to a hospital in Dwarka in 18 minutes, an official said on Wednesday.
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20 Mar, 2024 9:53 AM
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) A quarter of all employees or one in every four find it difficult to speak about mental health issues like stress, burnout, anxiety, or depression at the workplace, according to a new report on Wednesday.
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19 Mar, 2024 8:54 AM
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Workplace stress is a harsh reality that needs to be addressed both at the individual level as well as by the management, said mental health experts on Tuesday, amid the recent news of two recent deaths due to stress at work: one by heart attack and another by suicide.
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18 Mar, 2024 10:38 AM
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) A skin condition characterised by thickening, dark pigmentation, and velvety appearance of the skin at the nape of the neck among people with Type 2 diabetes may indicate a higher risk of liver cell damage (fibrosis), said researchers from Fortis C-DOC hospital for Diabetes and Allied Sciences and AIIMS on Monday.
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