The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad's Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CHE) is offering a one-year, fully-paid fellowship training programme.


IIT Hyderabad offers fellowship for healthcare entrepreneurs


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Himachal Pradesh is spending Rs 26,000 per capita on health, the highest in the country, and its budget allocation is 1.43 per cent of the State Gross Domestic Product, State Health Minister Kaul Singh said in the assembly on Tuesday.


Himachal spends Rs 26,000 per capita on health: Minister


People using gastric acid suppression medications may be at a higher risk of bacterium infection that can cause diseases ranging from diarrhoea to life-threatening colon inflammation, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, warned.


Gastric medications may up risk for bacterial infection


The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and Coca-Cola joined hands on Monday to train over 50,000 small-time street food vendors in hygiene and health-related aspects of food selling, starting from April.


Coca-Cola to help train street food vendors on hygiene


Celebrity mother Mira Rajput would rather stay at home than be away from her baby, and actress Kareena Kapoor Khan took no time in getting back to the groove after her son was born. Mothers have different ways of bringing up a baby, but they shouldn't forget to hug their bundle of joy, say experts.


Hug your baby for the lil one's good health


A China-made wearable robot, which can help disabled people  walk, is expected to enter the market in one to two years, the developer has said.


China-made wearable robot to enter market


Filmmaker Karan Johar, whose surrogate children Roohi and Yash were born almost 10 weeks before full term, says those who have premature babies must not get discouraged. He says with right kind of care, they can be nurtured towards normal growth.


Don't lose heart if your baby is premature, says Karan Johar


Actress-entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty says she is very excited about her digital foray as part of which she is promoting health and imparting cooking lessons. She says she wants to take the project forward worldwide.


Want to go worldwide with digital foray: Shilpa Shetty 


External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday offered to help a German patient, who was cured of a lung disease in a Kolkata hospital, to return home following a plea on social media.


Sushma helping out German patient in Kolkata hospital


On the face of it, it's deceptively simple. Pregnant woman across eight districts of Bihar are given 180 iron and folic acid (IFA) tablets to prevent anaemia, a similar number of blood drop-shaped red stickers and a booklet with an outline of a baby for pasting the stickers -- one for every tablet consumed.


'Khoon ka Rishta' campaign enables pregnant women in Bihar avoid anaemia (Health Feature)


A rebellion began Indian-American teen Indrani Das on her way to the brain research that got her the quarter-million-dollar Regeneron Science Talent Search award for high school students.


Rebellion led Indian-American teen to $250,000 science prize


A team of Kolkata olice on Saturday quizzed Apollo Gleneagles Hospital's General Manager of Pharmacy Sekhar Sharma in relation to the ongoing investigation into the hospital's alleged negligence in the treatment of a patient, police said.


Kolkata police quiz Apollo hospitals' pharmacy manager


Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has voiced support for a government campaign that works towards a tuberculosis-free India.


Big B campaigns for tuberculosis-free India


The national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party Sambit Patra on Saturday accused the West Bengal government of not properly utilising the funds provided for health schemes by the Centre.


Bengal not utilising health funds from Centre properly: Sambit Patra


Survivors of childhood brain tumours have more body fat, increasing their risk of stroke, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and early death, research has shown.


Childhood brain tumour survivor's high body fat ups stroke risk


New research led by an Indian-origin scientist has found how protein that collects in the brain of persons with Alzheimer's disease penetrates the cell membranes.


How Alzheimer's protein breaches cell membranes


A veteran physician committed suicide by jumping in front of a local train allegedly because he was not getting his salary at his Hooghly district hospital, the railway police said on Thursday.


Unpaid for months, veteran Bengal cardiologist jumps before train


Two days after Apollo Hospitals Group Vice-Chairperson Preetha Reddy met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here, Kolkata Police on Wednesday quizzed group Vice-President-HR T. Karunakar regarding a case of hospital's alleged negligence in treatment of a patient.


Top Apollo hospitals official quizzed by Kolkata Police


WHO's tobacco control treaty, which came into effect in 2005, has achieved a 2.5 per cent reduction in global smoking rate, according to a study published in The Lancet Public Health.


Tobacco control treaty cut global smoking rates by 2.5%: Lancet


The Health Ministry on Wednesday said a total of 385 cancer patients have benefited from the financial contribution made by India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL), under its CSR activity.


IIFCL helps 385 cancer patients


A novel test based on genetic information allows individuals to calculate their age-specific risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a study led by an Indian-origin scientist has revealed.

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