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Babies begin learning language in womb

Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered. The study indicates that babies begin absorbing language while still in the womb, earlier than previously thought. Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are developed at 30 weeks of gestational age, and the new [...]

Health in India – Review 2012

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare implements several national level programmes /schemes to control Communicable and Non-communicable diseases. The National Rural Health Mission is the flagship programme of the Ministry. It focuses on the challenge of strengthening poor public health systems in the country. Department of Health & Family Welfare Since the launch of the [...]

National Excellence Award for two female homoeopaths

India Nirman Organisation and Women International Network (WIN) in association with North East Council, Ministry of DoNER, Govt. of India conferred 5th National Women Excellence Award 2012 in the category of ‘NAV KIRAN AWARD’ to two Female Medical Officers working in the Directorate of ISM & Homoeopathy, Dept. of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of [...]

President of India visited Uttar Pradesh

President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee visited to Uttar Pradesh on December 25. The President attended the ninth Convocation of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology at Allahabad on December 25, 2012. The President also attended the special Convocation of Banaras Hindu University being organized to mark the concluding ceremony of birth centenary of Mahamana [...]

6 AIIMS – Prime Minister Swasthya Surakshayojana

Prime Minister Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) for setting up of six All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and upgrading 19 medical colleges has been launched by the Government of India with the objective of correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/reliable tertiary healthcare services and also augmenting facilities for quality medical education in [...]

Diabetes increasing in India – 8% suspected for diabetes

As per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) report entitled “Assessment of burden of Non-Communicable Diseases 2006”, the prevalence of diabetes in the age group of 30 to 89 was ranging from 26 to 200 per 1000 in Urban females and 78 to 333 per 1000 in Urban Males. In rural areas, it was [...]

10 million persons with epilepsy in India

As per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Task Force Study, in the Bangalore Urban Rural Neuro-Epidemiological Survey (BURNS) covering a population of 102.557, a prevalence rate of 8.8% per 1000 population was observed with the rate in rural communities (11.9) being twice that of urban areas (5.7). It is estimated that there are [...]

Use of Coconut in Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha

The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae. It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos. The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which, botanically, is a drupe, not a nut. Coconut has been traditionally used in Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha [...]

Institute on Geriatrics – National Institutes of Aging

Setting up of National Institutes of Aging at New Delhi and Chennai India has been included in the 12th Five Year with a specific objective of health care for elderly people, including promotion of research in the field of geriatrics. Geriatrics or geriatric medicine is a sub-specialty of internal medicine and family medicine that focuses [...]

Beyond 2012: Our World Won’t End

Dec. 21, 2012, won’t be the end of the world as we know, however, it will be another winter solstice. Contrary to some of the common beliefs out there, the claims behind the end of the world quickly unravel when pinned down to the 2012 timeline. I am receiving many emails related to doomsday about [...]

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