by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 18, 2020 | Health and Medicine
Introduction In a first-of-its-kind cancer registry, the district of Gadchiroli in Maharashtra was found reporting more than 600 cases of cancer a year. As per the Population-based Cancer Registry (PBCR), published in April 2019, about 28 per cent cases are related to...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 18, 2020 | Health and Medicine
Introduction Rising carbon dioxide levels can accelerate zinc deficiency in crops and thus in human consumption, says a report, titled, ‘Inadequate Zinc Intake in India; Present, Past, and Future’ by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. For years, people in...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 14, 2020 | Health and Medicine
It was reported in September 2019 that the Andhra Pradesh government has sanctioned funds and posts for setting up super speciality hospital with a kidney research centre and dialysis unit in Uddanam mandal in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. The region is known...
by Spectrum | Jul 3, 2020 | Health and Medicine
As per reports in August 2019, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), has mandated food businesses involving certain high-risk categories to make third-party audits. The latest directive of the FSSAI is an effort to strengthen the food surveillance...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 3, 2020 | Health and Medicine
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued a notification on July 19, 2019, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and distribution of the drug colistin and its formulations for food-producing animals, poultry, aqua farming and animal feed supplements because such...
by Spectrum | Jul 3, 2020 | Health and Medicine
In order to ensure that migrant households do not lose out on their food allocations, the government of India launched the ‘one nation, one ration card’, in August 2019. The national portability of PDS under the ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ (ONORC) system (to be...
