Tag: Health

In News Recently, the experimental treatment called base editing gave ground-breaking results in clearing a T-ALL cancer.  About T-ALL Recently, a teenager was diagnosed with a particular type of blood cancer. She was diagnosed with a kind of blood cancer known as T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL). T-ALL affects the stem cells in the bone […]

In News India will launch HPV vaccine CERVAVAC   for preventing cervical cancer in 2023, About  Cervical cancer: It is cancer that starts in the cells of the cervix. The cervix is the lower, narrow end of the uterus (womb). The cervix connects the uterus to the vagina (birth canal). Cervical cancer usually develops slowly […]

In News French-Canadian singer Celine Dion has opened up about being diagnosed with Stiff-Person Syndrome (SPS), About Stiff person syndrome It is a rare autoimmune neurological condition that affects the central nervous system and can cause rigidity throughout the body and painful muscle spasms.  It was first coined in the 1920s (as “stiff man syndrome”) […]

In News Recently, an MP raised concern over rare diseases, stating no patient has benefited from the new policy. Key Points Policy:  The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare notified the NPRD in March 2021.  In May 2022, it increased the funding support to ?50 lakh per patient with diseases classified as rare for […]

In News   The drug, lecanemab, jointly developed by pharma companies Biogen and Eisai, was tested on patients with early Alzheimer’s.  About Lecanemab  Lecanemab belongs to a class of drugs called monoclonal antibodies.  These antibody-mediated drugs target beta-amyloid, the protein deposition that is seen in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, and disrupts cell function. Lecanemab appears to […]

In News Recently, the French scientists have warned of the onset of another outbreak after they revived a 48,500-year-old zombie virus buried under a frozen lake in Russia. This has broken the previous record held by a 30,000-year-old virus discovered by the same team in Siberia in 2013. What is a Zombie Virus? Zombie virus […]

In News Every year December 1st is observed as World AIDS Day. World AIDS Day 2022 About: The World Health Organization (WHO) founded World AIDS Day on December 1 in 1988. It aims to promote information sharing between local and national authorities, international organisations, and private citizens. “Equalize” is this year’s World AIDS Day theme. […]

In News The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that it would start using the term “mpox” for monkeypox, which has infected about 80,000 people in the first major outbreak of the viral disease outside Africa that began early this summer. The disease spread mainly in the Americas including the United States and Europe, primarily among […]

In News Recently, Mumbai has seen a surge in measles cases. As per WHO data nearly 40 million children globally had missed a measles vaccine dose in 2021. As a result, there were an estimated nine million measles cases and 1, 28,000 deaths. Why has Mumbai seen a surge in measles-related cases? Poverty, poor hygiene […]