MICRO-CHIPS: TELEMEDICINE

Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-04-05 MICRO-CHIPS: TELEMEDICINE Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues “I don’t know if he’s going to get home,” said a robot to a dying man in a California hospital last month. Seventy-eight-year-old Ernest Quintana was admitted to Kaiser Permanente Hospital for chronic lung disease.…

PROJECT KANNAMMA PROVIDES SANITARY NAPKINS TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CHENNAI

Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-26 PROJECT KANNAMMA PROVIDES SANITARY NAPKINS TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CHENNAI Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Rights & Welfare of Women – Schemes & their Performance, Mechanisms, Laws Institutions and Bodies One step ahead (Far left) Workers from Irula Tribal Women’s Welfare Society manufacturing the Aavaram pads (left)…

PARADIGM SHIFT FOR TB CONTROL

Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-26 PARADIGM SHIFT FOR TB CONTROL Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Tuberculosis (TB) remains the biggest killer disease in India, outnumbering all other infectious diseases put together — this despite our battle against it from 1962, when the National TB Programme (NTP) was…

NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES TOP KILLERS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA: WHO

Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues, Health, Indian Economy, SANITATION, Science & Technology

Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-29 NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES TOP KILLERS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA: WHO Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) — mainly cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancer — continue to be the top killers in the South-East Asia Region, claiming 8.5 million lives…