The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is working on multiple projects to reduce the neonatal mortality rate, and prevent stillbirths in India, the Centre informed on Tuesday.
Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said on Thursday that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has left an indelible mark on the country’s healthcare landscape.
A 'one-size-fits-all' approach may be inadequate in developing assistive technology (AT), instead focusing on customisation and affordability is crucial, according to experts at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday.
The overall prevalence of diabetes in the Jammu region is 18.9 per cent, with an alarming 26.5 per cent in urban areas and 14.5 per cent in rural areas, an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-led study revealed on Sunday.
This initiative is a crucial step towards establishing India as a leader in the clinical development of pharmaceutical agents, it added.
The Concept and Compilation of the guidelines has been done by prominent researchers and doctors including Dr Nikhil Tandon (HOD of Endocrinology & Metabolism, AIIMS, New Delhi), Dr V Mohan (Director, MDRF, Chennai), Dr R S Dhaliwal (Head, Division of Non-Communicable Diseases, ICMR Hqrs).
"Whenever an infection transmits from humans to animals is called reverse zoonosis. It's not only about SARS-CoV-2, but also includes other COVID like infections. Any infection that originally comes from animals to humans is called zoonosis," Dr Abraham said.
As per the MoU, the cooperation will be undertaken in Chennai at the National Institute for Research on Tuberculosis (NIRT) of ICMR in the scientific area.
Dr Bhargava is the senior most among all 32 persons. His mother, Dr Sneh Bhargava, radiologist and medical academic, also held the post of director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi from 1984-1990. She has been the first and the only female Director of the AIIMS so far.
This emphasises the need for an Omicron-specific vaccine strategy, said the study.
