Health

Write prescriptions in Hindi: UP Dy CM urges state doctors

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak on Friday, September 25, urged the state’s doctors to write the names of medicines and diagnostic tests on patient prescriptions in Hindi (Devanagari) script…
FSSAI seeks ban on making, sale of analogue product as paneer’

New Delhi: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed banning the manufacture and sale of ‘analogue product as paneer’, as it steps up the clampdown on food adulteration and…
TG SAFE recalls drugs after quality standards found to be lacking

Hyderabad: The Telangana Standards Authority for Food and Essential Drugs (TG SAFE) issued a drug recall for several tablets on Wednesday, September 23, after they were found unfit for consumption. This includes…

Syneos Health opens Global Life Sciences Centre in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Syneos Health, a biopharmaceutical solutions organisation, on Wednesday, September 23, opened its new Global Life Sciences and Technology Centre here, its largest centre in Asia and third-largest globally. The 137,000-sq-ft centre,…
16.9 million Indians to have Dementia by 2036, say experts

New Delhi: India is estimated to have 8.8 million people aged 60 years and above living with dementia, a number projected to nearly double to 16.9 million by 2036, underscoring the need…
Teens eat healthy if food is visually appealing, study shows

New Delhi: Making healthy food look like “food porn” encourages teens to choose it, shows a study by ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition. This study also concludes that this strategy can be scaled…
Why do I talk in my sleep? A sleep psychologist explains

Mississippi (US): Why do people speak while they are sleeping? – Mubina, age 15, Uzbekistan Everyone sleeps, but not everyone understands much about sleep. One of my favorite parts of being a…

She fought through 7 surgeries, now she needs help for the eighth

Hyderabad: A 20-year-old woman from Hyderabad, who has spent most of her life undergoing surgeries and treatment, is once again seeking financial assistance as she prepares for her eighth major operation. She…
UoH gets Rs 4.98 cr grant to develop AI-powered PCOS blood test

Hyderabad: A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Hyderabad’s (UoH) School of Life Sciences has been awarded a Rs 4.98 crore research grant from the Indian Council of Medical Research…
Hyderabad doctors caution against fish fed with chicken waste

Hyderabad: A month after the Cyberabad Police seized 100 tonne of chicken waste being trucked out of the city to be fed to fish, doctors in Hyderabad are warning that the practice…
Can ancient virus return? What 500-year-old smallpox DNA reveals

Oxford: Smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been eradicated worldwide. Researchers have now recovered fragments of ancient DNA belonging to the variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox, from…
Air pollution linked to higher suicide risk, study finds

New Delhi: A review of available evidence has linked exposure to air pollutants with an increased risk of death by suicide or suicidal thoughts, with particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10 and nitrogen…
Hyderabad groundwater study flags high nitrate, fluoride levels

Hyderabad: A recent study has flagged elevated levels of nitrate and fluoride in Hyderabad’s groundwater, potentially posing non-carcinogenic health risks to children, like blood disorders, birth defects, and poor bone quality. A…
Emergency at a cost: Ambulance fares to Hyderabad soar

Hyderabad: A family in Suryapet had to shell out Rs 8,000 for an ambulance to shift a severely injured relative to Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad. The relative suffered a serious head injury…
Telangana Health Minister opens robotic surgery workshop at TIMS

Hyderabad: Telangana Health Minister C Damodar Raja Narsimha inaugurated a state-of-the-art robotic surgery workshop at Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences (TIMS), Sanathnagar, on Sunday, September 13. Following the inauguration, Narsimha said that…