Heena Sharma Blog

Health care sector on Sunday welcomed the government’s decision to ramp up infrastructure and undertaking structural reforms, but said the industry also needed support in view of the headwinds it faced due to Covid-19 pandemic . The announcements by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to increase investment in public health, ramping up infrastructure at grassroot level and getting future ready for Covid-like public health crises are strategic reforms, apex industry body NATHEALTH said. Read More

Transporters are finding it difficult to streamline the supply chain of essential goods with only 15 per cent of trucks plying on the road amid the 21-day nationwide lockdown to control the coronavirus pandemic , the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) has said. AIMTC, the apex body of transporters in the country, both cargo and passenger, represents around 10 million truckers and 5.5 million tourist buses and operators. "We have approximately 1.25 million trucks with national permit. But during the period of lockdown, only 200,000 to 250,000 trucks with national permits are on road," news agency ANI quoted AIMTC President Kultaran Singh Atwal as saying. Read More

Turns out, while adjusting the neck by a chiropractor one needs to be careful as high-velocity neck manipulation has been shown to result in stress on the eye and lead to spotty vision. Researchers from the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center states that the energetic thrusts and rotations sometimes performed in high-velocity neck manipulation have been linked to damage to the blood vessels in the retina. Resulting abnormal bleeding inside the eye may also cause vision loss. This was the case for a 59-year-old woman who experienced a "tadpole" shaped spot in her vision while driving home from a chiropractor visit - with her sight worsening the next day. She had just received cervical spine manipulation using the high-velocity technique to help with her headaches. The woman's vision returned to normal in about two weeks without treatment. Because the cells of the retina are so sensitive, even small injuries to the blood vessels can translate to vis...