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In a significant boost in efforts to find better anti-cancer drugs, a team of Indian scientists has found a way to control the expression of cancer -inducing gene called cancer myelocytomatosis (c-myc), using a synthetic derivative of Curcumin obtained from Turmeric.
Tribes India is continuing with making its product offerings more attractive to its customers, and at the same time helping millions of tribal enterprises get larger markets. Keeping this as the objective, over the last month, Tribes India has included many new products (mainly immunity boosting products and produce in the Forest Fresh and Organics range). This week, Tribes India has now added more new products to their offering.
More than 50,000 Ayushman Bharat-Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs), which target to provide communities closer to their homes with primary health facilities, are now operational across the nation and have seen more than 28.10 crore footfalls, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.
The notification dated November 19 listed the procedures that will be included in the PG training of Ayurveda doctors by amending the Indian Medicine Central Council (Post Graduate Ayurveda Education) Regulations, 2016. It stated that the amendments were being made with the sanction of the central government.
India has successfully met the 2017 target of newborn mortality rate of 24 per 1,000 live births and is making strides to fulfil the target of stillbirth rate of 19 per 1,000 total births by this year, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Friday.
An injectable hydrogel derived from spirulina can help accelerated wound repair in internal injuries and rapid healing in diabetic patients.
Elaborating on the steps taken to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Harsh Vardhan mentioned the Union Health Ministry’s recommendation of bi-directional TB-COVID screening, screening among ILI and SARI cases, intensifying of private sector engagement, re-deployment of the repurposed HR and CBNAAT and TrueNaT machines back to the TB program.
India has continued the unbroken trend of the daily new recoveries outpacing the daily new additions for more than 1.5 months. The country also reported less than 50,000 new daily cases for the eleventh continuous day.
Covid-19 vaccine – Covaxin – being developed by Bharat Biotech, is now undergoing phase-3 trials, Chairman and Managing Director of the company Krishna Ella said on Monday.
This was made possible by Amrita Hospital, Kochi, in the first week of October. According to the doctors who attended the 24-year-old patient, the mother and the newborn are stable. The hospital claims this is the first such successful case in the country.
