WHO Surveys Show Significant Increase In Resistance To Common HIV Treatments
New Delhi: A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed alarming rise in resistance to crucial HIV drugs. The report states that HIV resistance against the two vital drugs —…
Beware! Use of Complementary and Alternative medicines might lead to liver injury, warn AIIMS
New Delhi: The use of complementary and alternative medicines may cause liver injury, warn experts at AIIMS. Alternative medicine describes medical treatments used in place of traditional (mainstream) therapies. These medicines…
Over 10 crore people sitting on minefield of high BP unawares
New Delhi: 20 crore people in India are in vice like grip of high blood pressure. Half of them are not aware that they are sitting on the minefield of…
AFDLH Urge Health Ministry To Investigate Illegal Supply Of Malaria RDTs Samples To Manufacturers
The All Food And Drug Licence Holders Foundation (AFDLH), a pan-India body of distributors of Food and Drugs, has urged the Union Health Ministry to conduct investigation on illegal supply…
Acupuncture, the Accelerated Yoga, a Healing Power beyond Modern Medicine
New Delhi: Acupuncture, needle piercing painless and drugless therapy, has undeniably immense healing potential. It is not for nothing that WHO long ago and Indian government not long ago accorded…
Bombay HC restrains state FDA from taking coercive actions against e-cigarette manufacturer Godfrey Philips
The Bombay High Court has passed an interim order restraining the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Maharashtra from taking coercive steps against e-cigarette manufacturer Godfrey Philips India Ltd. The e-cigarette manufacturer had moved…
Violence Against On Duty Doctors May Soon Attract 10-Year Jail Term
NEW DELHI: Violence against on-duty doctors may be treated as a cognizable and non-bailable offence, attracting jail term of up to 10 years along with a hefty penalty of at…
Government Doctors Are Not Allowed Private Practice: Health Ministry
NEW DELHI: As per Central Health Service (CHS) Rules, 2014, persons appointed to CHS shall not be allowed private practice of any kind whatsoever including any consultation and laboratory practice,…
How Hepatitis B wiped out stigma of Alcoholism on my brother
New Delhi: My brother’s death from liver cirrhosis at a young age of 45 was an eye opener. There was a panicked flurry of tests for hepatitis B in my…
ISIC introduces ‘Superman’ fame Diaphragmatic Pacing in India
New Delhi: 24 years ago, late Christopher Reeve, the American actor who played Superman, paralysed and on ventilator, got diaphragmatic pacemaker to breathe naturally. A 53-year-old man Dhiren who received…
