Nod to proposal for round-the-year air quality study

NEW DELHI: The Delhi cabinet on Tuesday cleared the department of environment’s proposal to carry out a real-time source apportionment study in Delhi, which will be done through the year…

IHH Healthcare submits fresh bid for Fortis

NEW DELHI: Malaysia’s IHH Healthcare Berhad on Tuesday said it has made a fresh binding offer to the board of Fortis Healthcare. The binding offer is valid till July 16,…

Doctors operate on 237kg Delhi boy, world’s heaviest teen

NEW DELHI: The normal body mass index (BMI) – a person’s weight-to-height ratio – is 22.5 kg/m2. At 32.5, a person is considered obese and surgery may be suggested. A…

Kozhikode and Malappuram declared temporarily nipah-free

KOZHIKODE: Health minister K K Shailaja here on Sunday declared Kozhikode and Malappuram districts are free from Nipah virus infection. A declaration in this regard was made at a function…

Delhi: Daily-wager’s son cites RTE, gets prosthetic arm from govt

NEW DELHI: Ritik, the son of a daily-wage earner, lives in a one-room house with his family of five in a narrow lane in old Delhi’s Sadar Bazar. The 16-year-old…

‘Malvinder Singh authorised funds diversion into related entities’

Inquiries into fund diversion at Fortis Healthcare have revealed that transfers to entities connected to the erstwhile promoters were authorised by Malvinder Singh, the elder of the two siblings who…

We need to scale up our capabilities and infrastructure to reach out to the larger masses : Y.S. Prabhakar

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Y.S. Prabhakar, CEO, Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd., Mumbai to know more about the trends and challenges in the diagnostic industry. Edited excerpts: How was the…

Rs 50 crore international yoga institute to come up in Chennai

CHENNAI: An international institute for yoga and naturopathy will be opened on a 50-acre land at the Government Chengalpettu Hospital, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said here on Monday, four…

UK must value overseas medics: Top Indian-origin doctor

LONDON: A senior Indian-origin doctor on Monday called on the UK government to value overseas medical professionals, from countries like India, without which the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) would…

The new treatment combination (IDA) will accelerate and speed-up the elimination process of LF: Dr Gary J Weil

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Gary J Weil, Prof. of Medicine (Infectious diseases), Prof of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University, to know more about latest drug regimen (IDA) in the…