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75 per cent Indian population never goes for diagnostic tests due to a lac
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI/PNN): Neglecting preventive care leads to high cases of preventable diseases. And this applies to cardiovascular diseases as well. Currently, in India, there is a lack of preventive care ecosystem, which is the reason why the majority of the people don't go fo
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Over 5000 Ophthalmologists to take pledge to reduce preventable blindness
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 3 (ANI/NewsVoir): The 80th Annual Conference of the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS), with nearly 24,000 member ophthalmologists, a society with a view to render service to the community through their profession, announced a landmark pledge to redu
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Famous Implantologist Dr Bharat Agravat receives Times Gujarat Icon Award
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], June 3 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Popular dentopreneur Dr Bharat Agravat http://www.drbharat.agravat.com, who is the founder of India's first dental tech startup Smile In Hour https://www.smileinhour.in, has been awarded with the Times Gujarat Icon Award 2022. A m
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Flu vaccine myths debunked
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): Commonly known as 'the flu,' influenza is a seasonal viral respiratory infection that affects all age groups and spreads easily from person to person. In India, this vaccine-preventable infection is a vastly under-reported public health challenge.
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Rotary Eye Institute becomes India's one of the charitable institutions to
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 9 (ANI/PNN): Rotary Eye Institute (REI), India's leading charitable institution has become instrumental in the country to have initiated the establishment of the 'permanent eye care project' in Nigeria to help the people in the African country in getting quality
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Urgently address gaps in cancer care: WHO
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): Noting the increasing burden of cancer despite 30 per cent to 50 per cent of the cases being preventable, the World Health Organization today called on countries in South-East Asia Region to prioritize measures to reduce risk, detect and diagnose early an
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Study finds impact of obesity on the heart for young obese children
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], January 19 (ANI): A team of researchers has found the impact of obesity on the heart's anatomy for young obese children.
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Study finds common loud noises cause fluid buildup in the inner ear
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 3 (ANI): According to new research, exposure to common loud noise such as fireworks is the most common preventable cause of hearing loss.
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Study finds microbiome discovery could help save kids' hearing
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], November 10 (ANI): A new study has found that bacteria found in children's upper respiratory systems could help fight chronic middle ear infections, the leading cause of preventable hearing loss and deafness in indigenous communities.
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Nurses' physical, mental health connected to preventable medical errors: S
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Ohio [US], May 2 (ANI): A study led by The Ohio State University College of Nursing finds that critical care nurses in poor physical and mental health reported significantly more medical errors than nurses in better health.
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New campaign in Karnataka warns tobacco users of the dangers of tobacco us
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 19 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Tobacco use is the leading preventable killer in the world, and in India, it is responsible for around 1 million deaths annually. To reduce the burden of tobacco use, today the state health department of Karnataka launched a s
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Diphtheria now becoming major global threat, as it evolves antimicrobial r
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 8 (ANI): Researchers from the UK and India, during a recent study, found that Diphtheria, which is a relatively easily-preventable infection, has now started to evolve and become resistant to a number of classes of antibiotics, and in future, it could even lead to va
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