Illegal Drug De-Addiction Centre Busted In Gurugram, Operator Arrested

Gurugram: A joint team of the chief minister’s flying squad and the health department busted a drug de-addiction centre being run illegally here and arrested one of its operators, police…

Diabetes Drug Among 48 To Fail Quality Test

NEW DELHI: The drug regulator said it found 48 critical medicines, meant for domestic consumption, as “not of standard quality” in August. The samples were collected across the country. Some of…

Allahabad HC Puts On Hold UP’s Order To Suspend Sanjay Gandhi Hospital’s Licence

Lucknow/Amethi: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Wednesday stayed the Uttar Pradesh government’s order suspending the licence of Sanjay Gandhi Hospital in Amethi. A division bench of Justices Vivek…

SPEED fame Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Aashish Chaudhry bags Distinguished Honor

New Delhi:  Dr Aashish Chaudhry, MD of Aakash Healthcare, whose unique algorithm SPEED has brought about a paradigm shift in the quality of knee replacement surgery, has bagged Distinguished Entrepreneur…

Tobacco Cessation may grind to a halt, if Prescription Proposal goes through

New Delhi: Prescription proposal looms large over Nicotine Replacement therapy (NRT), most effective intervention in Tobacco Cessation campaign. In the prescription versus OTC debate, the latter clearly wins approval of…

Open letter to Bandaru Dattatreya,Governor Haryana in public interest.

Gustakhi Maaf Haryana-Pawan Kumar Bansal: Open letter to Bandaru Dattatreya,Governor Haryana in public interest.You are visiting B.D,Sharma Health University, Rohtak alongwith Anil Vij who had once described it a dead…

Falsified Avastin Have Blinded Patients In Pakistan

Lahore: Dozens of people in Pakistan have lost their sight after being injected with what is suspected to be a falsified version of Roche’s Avastin medicine. The patients in Punjab province…

44,900 Bottles Of Phensedyl Seized In East Jaintia Hills

SHILLONG: Altogether 44,900 bottles of banned Phensedyl were seized from a truck, which was abandoned on the national highway in East Jaintia Hills after being chased by police on Tuesday…

India Finds Two More Toxic Syrups Months After Poisoning Deaths

NEW DELHI: India’s drug regulator has found that a cough syrup and an anti-allergy syrup made by Norris Medicines are toxic, according to a government report, months after Indian-made cough…

Nanded Hospital Deaths Expose Maharashtra’s Flawed Medicine Procurement System

Mumbai: The deaths of 31 patients within a two-day period at the Maharashtra government-run Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Nanded has once again exposed the state’s flawed…