Hyderabad infants hit by drug-resistant TB
HYDERABAD: The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) with resistance to drugs is growing among infants in Hyderabad. About six per cent of infants studied were diagnosed with TB. City doctors say…
Doctor couple to pay Rs 15 lakh for botched-up eye surgery
NEW DELHI: A city-based doctor couple was penalised and asked to pay Rs 15 lakh compensation for a botched-up eye surgery of a woman, who lost sight in one of…
HCA Healthcare to buy North Carolina’s Mission Health for $1.5 bln
HCA Healthcare Inc, the biggest hospital operator in the United States, said on Friday it would buy Mission Health, a non-profit health system in North Carolina, for about $1.5 billion.…
Nadda urges Odisha to implement Ayushman Bharat
Balangir (Odisha): Union Health Minister J P Nadda today urged the Odisha government to implement the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat scheme along with its own Biju Swastha Kalyan programme for better…
Three held for conning people through homemade medicines
New Delhi: Three persons have been arrested for cheating gullible people out of money by promising them cures for chronic and terminal diseases through homemade medicines, police said on Friday.…
Suspended president of Haryana pharmacy council cries frame-up
Chandigarh: Having gotten anticipatory bail from the Punjab and Haryana high court in a case registered against him by the state vigilance bureau (SVB), Haryana State Pharmacy Council (HSPC) suspended…
There is a lot of inequity in Indian healthcare system: Dr. Ali Zamir Khan
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Dr. Ali Zamir Khan, Director, MIS & RS, Medanta-The Medicity and Director, Robotic Surgery, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London to get his views on Indian…
Legal Awareness and Child Protection is the requirement of time!!
Recently the news that made all of us shocked that school kids were used as drug mules by a man to send MD/Meow Meow to his clients. Mumbai police narcotics…
2-Month-Old’s lost her life, 3 Infants are at a critical stage due to botched vaccination
Medical negligence can’t be bearable as loss of life is a very big concern. A two-month-old baby girl died in Telangana due to medical negligence. The little baby was wrongly…
Measure and Manage Health Better
Various reports and researchers have linked around 0.27 million deaths from respiratory illnesses attributable to air pollution, while others lament about 11 million under-five children (every 10th child) suffer from…
