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Cured TB patients run risk of lung disease: Study

Screening recommended for recovered persons regardless of age or smoking habit

Publication Date:

03/06/2019

Source: Telegraph (Kolkata)

Tags:

Tuberculosis (TB), Infectious Diseases, Smoking, Health Effects, Health

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India remained witness to 57,000 new gastrointestinal cancer in 2018

Hyderabad: Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer (stomach) is the fourth most prevalent cancer in India. Last year, 57,394 new cases of GI cancer were documented in India.

Publication Date:

03/06/2019

Source: Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)

Tags:

Cancer, Diseases, Health Effects, Stomach Cancer, Health

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Designate Tobacco Monitors to check nicotine use: Health Ministry to educational institutes

Under a set of revised guidelines, institution managements are also asked to ensure that no tobacco product is sold inside premises and in an area within 100 yards of such.

Publication Date:

03/06/2019

Source: Daily News Analysis (Delhi)

Tags:

Tobacco, Cancer, Tobacco Related Cancer, Health Effects, Health

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The women’s empowerment in nutrition index

Rural women face many obstacles that thwart their well-being. Policies that seek to empower them, for example, by improving livelihood opportunities, often do not translate into improvements in other areas, notably in their nutritional status.

Publication Date:

01/06/2019

Author(s): Sudha Narayanan, Erin Lentz, Marzia Fontana, Anuradha De, Bharati Kulkarni

Source: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)

Tags:

Women, Nutrition, South Asia, India, Health

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The imperative of climate action to protect human health in Europe

A report by experts from 27 national science academies has set out the widespread damage global heating is already causing to people’s health and the increasingly serious impacts expected in future.

Publication Date:

01/06/2019

Source: German National Academy of Sciences

Tags:

Climate Change, Health Effects, Heat Waves, Europe, Extreme Weather Events

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What do community health workers want? Findings of a discrete choice experiment among Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in India

A number of factors contribute to the performance and motivation of India’s Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs). This study aims to identify the key motivational factors (and their relative importance) that may help retain ASHAs in service.

Publication Date:

31/05/2019

Author(s): Marwa Abdel-All, Blake Angell, Stephen Jan & et al

Source: BMJ Global Health

Vol:

4

Issue:

3

pp:

1-8

Tags:

Health Personnel, Primary Health Care, Health For All, Guntur (D), Andhra Pradesh, India

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Primary structural differences at residue 226 of deer and elk PrP dictate selection of distinct CWD prion strains in gene-targeted mice

Although the unifying hallmark of prion diseases is CNS neurodegeneration caused by conformational corruption of host prion protein (PrP) to its infective counterpart, contagious transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) results from shedding of prions produced at high titers in the periphery of diseased cervids. While deer and elk

Publication Date:

30/05/2019

Author(s): Jifeng Bian, Jeffrey R. Christiansen, Julie A. Moreno & et al

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

pp:

1-10

Tags:

Animal Diseases, Health Effects, Wildlife, Research

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Health dept to get WHO award for tobacco control

Jaipur: State’s health department is among five in South-East Asia region of WHO to receive award for its accomplishment in the area of tobacco control.

Publication Date:

30/05/2019

Source: Times Of India (Jaipur)

Tags:

Rajasthan, Tobacco, Awards, Health Effects, Health

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Pune health dept floats proposal for independent TB control cell

A status check by the TB control unit of the PMC showed that out of 710 private hospitals/ nursing homes, 24 were reporting TB cases while six laboratories out of 406 were sending the information.

Publication Date:

30/05/2019

Source: Indian Express (Pune)

Tags:

Maharashtra, Tuberculosis (TB), Infectious Diseases, Drugs, Health

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