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The persons who were in insurable employment for at least five years after April 1, 2012, and superannuated or voluntarily retired on or after April 1, 2015 with wages up to Rs 30,000 per month will now be eligible to avail of medical benefits under the new scheme.

As per a statement by the AIIMS, the remarkable feat took just over one hour and was performed by the Department of Paediatrics using a less invasive flexible bronchoscopy, sparing the kid from a major surgery (thoracotomy).

World Cancer Day is observed on February 4 each year. The theme this year is 'Close the Care Gap'.

Giving a major infra boost to the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday inaugurated a dharmasala, a new trauma centre, and a High Energy Linear Accelerator (HELA) machine at the facility. 

Despite making the Regional Diagnostic Centre (RDC) at MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur operational round the clock, the patients are still suffering to get their tests done. 

The traditional approach to diagnosing cancer primarily revolved around biopsy, histological examinations under microscopes, and imaging tests such as MRI, CT, and PET scan.

Permafrost covers a fifth of the northern hemisphere and is made up of soil that has been kept at temperatures below zero for long periods.

There are multiple reasons why there has been an increase in case of heart attacks among youth. The modern lifestyle where we have a lot of consumption of food, which is very rich preserved junk food in special, all the beverages have high sodium content and all that, that's also creating problems. The stress of daily existence and the pollution is also taking a toll.

There are approximately 425 million people worldwide with diabetes and approximately 75 million of these inject themselves with insulin daily.

Director General of Health Services Dr Atul Goel has also appealed to all pharmacists to strictly implement schedule H and H1 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules and stop over-the-counter sale of antibiotics and sell them only on the prescription of a qualified doctor.

It is a known fact that fruits and vegetables are full of nutrients and must be included in daily diet. However, even the peels of these vegetables are edible and nutritious. Know more about such edible peels.

The word cancer raises alarm in everyone’s mind. Know about the 10 sneaky signals of cancer that usually are overlooked.

Korean food is rich in all types of colours and textures as even non-vegetarian food items contain lots of vegetables like carrots, beans, micro-greens, seaweeds, and so on.

This comes even as the country is under the grip of the new highly transmissible JN.1 variant with immune escaping features.

Cases of heart attacks, which previously were believed to affect only older people, among young people Indians have become a matter of serious concern in the recent past.