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CCEA approves World Bank funded National AIDS control support project
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a proposal by the Department of AIDS Control, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare for the implementation of National AIDS Control Support Project (NACSP) under the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) for ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2013
Vitamin C shows potential to kill drug-resistant TB
Scientists at Yeshiva University have found through a study that Vitamin C kills drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. What they discovered? The researchers who were actually trying to determine the causes that made a normal strain of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (bacteria ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2013
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Scientists link low IQ with genetic risk for Schizophrenia
As per a new study, it has been found that both the decline in cognitive ability with age and schizophrenia have some common genetic variants that link both the conditions. However, reduced cognitive ability may not necessarily be an indicator of the problem. The study ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2013
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
MDNIY designated as WHO Collaborating Centre in Traditional Medicine
The Department of Yoga Therapy and Training of Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY) has been designated as WHO Collaborating Centre in Traditional Medicine for a period of four years. MDNIY had started collaborating with WHO Country Office in ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2013
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Rotavac- India’s first indigenously developed rotavirus vaccine unveiled
India has unveiled its first indigenous vaccine against rotavirus- Rotavac, the major cause of diarrhoea deaths among children. The preventive vaccine has passed all clinical trials and it will be available for sale in the market by 2014, subject to clearance ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2013
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
New Drug Prices Control Order (DPCO) 2013 to slash prices of Essential Medicines by 80%
With the new Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 2013 coming into effect, the prices of 348 medicines, including life saving drugs will be cheaper soon by up to 50% to 80%. What is DPCO 2013? The Department of Pharmaceuticals has ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2013
Fact Box: HO41 Superbug
Doctors warn of Superbug in Japan deadlier than AIDS As per doctors, a new sexually-transmitted superbug- antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea HO41 – could ultimately prove to be even more deadly than AIDS. The superbug- gonorrhoea strain HO41 which was discovered in Japan two years ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2013
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Centre starts Pentavalent Vaccine programme in high-risk areas
With an aim to expand and promote the reach of vaccination, the Union Government has kicked off its four-week special immunization programme in high-risk areas across the nation. The vaccines are being provided free of cost aimed at reaching every ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2013
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Union Cabinet’s approves the launch of NUHM as a sub-mission under the National Health Mission (NHM)
The National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) will be launched as a new sub-mission under the extensive National Health Mission (NHM), as approved by the Union Cabinet. The Union Cabinet had already approved the continuation of the National Rural Health Mission ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2013
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Expert committee: "exact co-relation between radiation of communication towers and health of wildlife is so far not established"
In August 2010 an expert committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Asad Rahmani (Director Bombay Natural Society) was constituted by Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to study the probable effects of communication towers on wildlife including Birds and Bees. ..