Provided preventive, curative and rehabilitative care A major milestone in preventing avoidable blindness in newborn babies LVPEI Atlas of Retinopathy of Prematurity and other Neonatal Retinal Diseases launched L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) crossed a major milestone in preventing avoidable blindness in
The World Health Organization today called for accelerated action to provide quality, affordable, integrated and people-cantered comprehensive eye care for everyone, for addressing the increasing and disproportionate burden of vision impairment and blindness in the WHO South-East Asia Region. “Nearly 30% of the 2.2 billion people
IDEX and NAVDEX Talks, which are held for the first time at the IDEX and NAVDEX exhibitions under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, continue with their sessions that attract thought leaders, policy makers and world-renowned
- SURAKSHA is a community-based suicide surveillance system aimed at testing the feasibility of an indigenized pilot research model for rural Karnataka. - SURAKSHA will cover 32 panchayats in its first year, impacting various stakeholder groups. To improve access to mental health in the districts of Karnataka,
One of the fastest-growing drugstore chains in India, Aster Pharmacy, grows from 1 to 250 in just 23 months. The newest one makes it Kerala's 75th Aster Pharmacy. Aster Pharmacy, a division of Aster DM Healthcare, one of the major private healthcare service providers
In a bid to better leverage its clinical expertise and drive quality reporting across its centres, Thyrocare has added SigTuple’s AI100 to automate the microscopic review in its laboratories Thyrocare, the pioneers in driving affordability for diagnostic tests and the leaders in preventive healthcare diagnosis, are
Malaria No More (MNM) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Odisha to eliminate malaria from the state. The tripartite partnership also included Prayatna, a grassroot organization that is the implementing and fiduciary partner of the MNM
A Mental wellness app incubated by students at EdVenture Park will provide the platform In a first of its kind initiative, NGO Helping Hand Foundation that runs several Primary Health Care centers in collaboration with SEED-USA and mostly from 8 locations in the Urban Slums of the old city, launched
Publishes Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal A recent study published in scientific reports in the journal Nature finds that there is no link between the use of ranitidine and cancer risk. Ranitidine is used to treat and prevent gastric ulcers. The recent study evaluated the
Padmashri Dr. Dasari Prasada Rao, former Director of Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences and Chairman, Nano Hospitals Pvt. Ltd.; was conferred the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Association of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS) – the association of heart surgeons of India, at its 69th
