Indian Holistic Medicine practitioners treating cancers think as good as got Nobel

New Delhi: Holistic Medicine practitioners in India have for long been telling and practising what this year’s recipients of Nobel for medicine have claimed as a new principle of cancer…

Hopes abound about effectiveness of Stem Cell Therapy

New Delhi: The takeaways from Stem Cell Awareness week, which took place from October 8 to October 11, is bound to give a lot of boost to regenerative medicine. It…

Ghaziabad : Doctor found stabbed to death in her clinic

GHAZIABAD: A 42-year-old ayurvedic doctor was found dead with multiple stabs wounds in the stomach and neck inside her clinic in Indirapuram on Friday night. The body of Sarla Nath,…

PATNA: 50-bed facility for HIV positive people in state

PATNA: The state health department on Friday signed a non-financial memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a Spain based Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to run a 50-bed hospital in Patna for…

In the era of super specialty hospitals, the focus on preventive healthcare has taken a back seat : Preeti Malhotra

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Preeti Malhotra, President, Gujarmal Modi Hospital and Research Center and Saket Mediciti, in Saket to know more about the need and role of preventive…

Delhi first at hospital: HC nixes scheme

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Friday pulled the plug on a pilot project launched by AAP government extending preferential treatment to residents of the city at Guru Teg…

Trevena’s opioid painkiller fails to get FDA panel backing

By Saumya Joseph and Ankur Banerjee Trevena Inc’s opioid injection for managing acute pain failed to win the backing of an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on…

CHENNAI: State to spend Rs 35 lakh more for common drug

CHENNAI: The state health department will soon have to spend about Rs 35 lakh more a month for a commonly used drug in labour rooms of government hospitals following the…

Walgreens revenue hit by weakness in personal care products, OTC drugs

By Manas Mishra Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc came up short of analysts’ estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, as sales of personal care products and over-the-counter drugs fell both in…

Pune: Doctors on 108 ambulance deny transport to a swine flu patient

The unavailability of safety gears for doctors of 108 ambulance services is directly affecting the patients, who are not being taken aboard after presenting with flu-like symptoms. In one such…