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Hope grows as the country today launched its first indigenously produced quadrivalent human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, which claims one life every eight minutes.
Doctors claimed that the patient was recovering after the surgery and also his eye sight was returning to normal.
COVID survivor turns saviour with 9th plasma donation COVID survivor turns saviour with 9th plasma donation ByVicky PathareVicky Pathare / Updated: Feb 21, 2021, 06:00 IST Munot, 50, has enough neutralising antibodies in his blood that make him fit for donation; PIC: RAHUL DESHMUKH Marketing consultant Ajay Munot, who has donated blood more than 40 times, probably recorded the maximum number of plasma donations in the country since coronavirus pandemic hit last year With the number of COVID cases coming down in the city, donations for plasma have also gone down but Ajay Munot is an excepti...
According to Dr K S James, director of International Institute of Population Sciences, the NFHS-5 has included new focal areas like non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including screening for cancers that have a high burden, like cervical, breast and oral cancer. “There has been a complaint that NFHS does not collect enough information on other aspects like NCDs, which has been on the rise in the country,” Dr James told The Indian Express. Data for screening of cancers has been newly reported in NFHS-5 and hence they are not progression based estimates, Dr James said, adding that it was a c...