What’sNew
Reliance life Care for You Advantage Plan: Reliance life Insurance Company has launched a new healthcare family floater scheme that offers comprehensive coverage for hospitalisation, surgeries and critical illnesses for the entire family in a single policy. The key feature of the policy is that it allows an insured to pay a fixed premium for a three-year policy. The premium remains fixed for the three-year period, irrespective of the number of claims taken by the insured during the validity of the policy.
Wonderfood
Beetroot: Beets are low calorie but high in carbohydrates which is a great instant energy source. It is also considered as fiber food and contain vitamins A, C, sodium, magnesium, calcium, iron and phosphorus. Its folic acid is very helpful for the production and maintenance of new cells. This is especially important for pregnant woman or anyone undergoing physical healing. Betacyanin is the pigment that gives beets their red color, this pigment helps to fight cancer. Even the leaves of raw beets are beneficial to one's health. It also helps to get rid of tumors and to help people with blood diseases, heart disease and leukemia. Some people have used beats to treat and cure boils, abscesses and even acne.
It’sback!
A TV show —Maa- a new phase of life — has been recently launched on Care World TV to educate and impart awareness amongst women who are going through or may go through the motherhood phase. It’s a complete guide of motherhood and a host to an array of world renowned gynaecologists, paediatricians & dieticians.
Each episode is targeted towards a certain topic and the experts comment on the causes, symptoms and treatment of the same. It’s a an authentic approach to the changes, challenges, transformation and complications, every mother goes through.
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According to the World Health Organisation, the death rate, due to the disease, has decreased by more than 40 per cent in the past 13 years.
Apart from public awareness of TB, advances in diagnostics is also contributing to success in TB control. Six countries in this Region — Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand — have introduced Xpert MTB/RIIF, a system that detects the disease, including TB that is resistant to the antibiotic rifampicin, rapidly, within 100 minutes. Rapid detection of TB enables health providers to ensure patients get treated quickly and appropriately, and prevents its spread.
There were an estimated 5 million TB patients in 2011 in the region, with 3.5 million new cases. Half a million people died of TB that year. There were also an estimated 90,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB in 2011.