The amendments to the Medical Devices Rules, 2017, seek to simplify regulatory requirements, standardise testing fees and facilitate faster market access for eligible medical …
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Thaimaman Thanga Mothiram scheme: Vault-like enclosures for gold ring storage at Tamil Nadu’s 107 CEmONC centres
by AdminThe State Health Secretary has written to the Engineer-in-Chief and Chief Engineer (Buildings), Public Works Department (PWD) to put in place safety enclosures for …
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Gold ring scheme for newborn babies in Tamil Nadu: Doctors’ body flags high security, logistics costs
by AdminIn a district-level costing of the proposed hub-and-spoke model, the SDPGA said the hospital-based arrangement could cost roughly three times the State-wide administrative norm …
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Just as Amul and the other cooperatives it inspired made India milk-secure and secured the livelihoods of millions of farmers, so too could a …
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ChatGPT, internet searches and ‘dhuk dhuk’: Rajnath Singh highlights challenges of self-diagnosis for doctors
by AdminMr. Singh said patients sometimes reached doctors not merely with their symptoms but with the diagnosis they had arrived at through internet searches
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Community models led by women have demonstrated what changes when women are given responsibility and authority, not simply participation. The same principle must extend …
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Squint, medically known as strabismus, is a condition in which the two eyes do not align properly. It can affect children and adults and, …
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TNMSC to procure assistive devices, retrofitted scooters for Differently Abled Welfare Department
by AdminIt has floated online tenders for fixing of rate contracts for supply of various types of battery-operated wheelchairs, sewing machines, tricycles, hearing aids, and …
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Researchers have for years been trying to apply mRNA treatments against cancer, but this was the first time such a drug showed positive results …
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Tavneos is made by the U.S. biotech firm Amgen and is sold by different partner pharmaceutical companies around the world
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Karnataka seventh in HPV vaccination coverage in country, reports just one adverse event following immunisation
by AdminHealth officials said that beneficiaries (girls aged between 14 and 15) are being monitored for adverse reactions following vaccination, while district teams have been …
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The Ervebo vaccine “has already been used several times, and in particular on a very large scale during the 2018-2020 outbreak”, says Samuel Roger …