Amid the World Health Organisation (WHO) announcement of monkeypox as a global health emergency, the state public health department issued guidelines for surveillance and management of the disease on Monday. As per officials, monkeypox patients must be kept in an isolation ward or a separate room at home with proper ventilation. The patient should always …
WHO proposes a comprehensive range of measures. The UN health agency also recommends interventions such as counselling. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released the first-ever clinical treatment guidelines, aimed at helping more than 750 million tobacco users around the world to quit the deadly habit. In its tobacco cessation guideline, WHO proposes a comprehensive …
BOSTON — New Endocrine Society guidelines call for limiting vitamin D supplementation beyond the daily recommended intake to specific risk groups and advises against routine 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] testing in healthy individuals. The evidence-based document was presented on June 3, 2024 at the Endocrine Society annual meeting and simultaneously published in the Journal of Clinical …
Mumbai: State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender, has kicked off the new project funding regime with a loan clause that enables it to transfer to the borrower any increase in cost resulting from implementation of proposed tighter provisioning regulations, even as the industry is lobbying against the move, people with knowledge of …
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Saturday took a poetic jibe over the allegations of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) tampering and its alleged misuse saying that some parties hold the poll body alleging that the EMV has been tampered and the results are being forged but do not remain stiff n their claim if the …
(Bloomberg) — Testing positive for Covid-19 will no longer mean prolonged isolation for most people under new US guidelines released Friday. People with Covid whose symptoms are improving and have been fever-free for 24 hours without medication can return to work, school or other public places, US health officials said. The updated Centers for Disease …
When the American Cancer Society recently unveiled changes to its lung cancer screening guidance, the aim was to remove barriers to screening and catch more cancers in high-risk people earlier. Although the lung cancer death rate has declined significantly over the past few decades, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Detecting …
Chari Cohen, DrPH, MPH, president of the Hepatitis B Foundation, sat down with HCPLive to discuss emerging treatment opportunities for hepatitis B, barriers and disparities in access to adequate care, and her hopes for the future of hepatitis B management. Cohen was a speaker during multiple sessions at The Liver Meeting 2023 from the American …
Continuing a tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) during pregnancy does not increase risk of worse fetal or obstetric outcomes, according to new research presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2023 Annual Meeting. Patients who continued a TNFi also had fewer severe infections requiring hospitalization, compared with those who stopped taking the medication during …
When Christopher Rajkumar, MD, presented the positive results of ORBITA-2, the second placebo-controlled trial of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in stable angina, you could almost feel the relief of cardiologists at the American Heart Association meeting. All is right again. Thank goodness. The first ORBITA trial stunned our community when it showed that PCI compared …