Medlife acquires Myra, to expand medicine delivery service

Medlife, which operates an online pharmacy and healthcare platform, has acquired Bengaluru’s medicine delivery startup Myra Medicines. The deal will help Medlife scale Myra’s express delivery service across its own…

Dr . says the sleeping pill is dangerous the human being makes a victim of many diseases

Between a third and half of all Americans have insomnia and complain of poor sleep. Perhaps you’re one of them. If so, you may be considering taking a sleeping pill.…

Trauma of Parenting a Thalassaemic! Protect your conscience from burden of guilt

New Delhi: Birth of a Thalassaemia major child is no bundle of joy at all. It is burden of a life time on conscience of such parents. It is traumatic…

Inhaler is gold standard treatment of Asthma for ages

New Delhi: Inhaler has been a standard bearer from ages in the management of Asthma. Inhaler may have advanced and improved a lot but in India it is still stuck…

Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are a global pandemic- Dr. Prathap C Reddy

Antigua/India: The Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO), a non-profit organization, founded by Padma Vibhushan, Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Founder and Chairman of Apollo Hospitals Group, Dr. Sanku…

If Asthma management is dog cheap, why pay through nose

New Delhi: If your child coughs even when he laughs, it is not a laughing matter, he may be asthmatic. Other symptoms like coughing without rhyme or reason (fiver of…

Oxygen-ozone treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. Retrospective study and literature review of conservative and surgical techniques

CARPAL tunnel syndrome is a condition which affects the hands and fingers. There are several options for treatment but it can occasionally resolve itself. Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) stems from…

NPPA fixes retail prices of 22 formulations under DPCO, 2013

Name of the formulations are mesalazine sachet, clotrimazole+ beclomethasone+ neomycin cream, telmisartan +cilnidipine+ chlorthalidone tablet, paracetamol +phenylephrine+caffeine (Anhydrous)+ diphenhydramine tablet, methylcobalamin+ pyridoxine + folic acid tablet, medoxomil + amlodipine +…

India-based drug businessman John Kapoor bribed doctors in America to increase sales of addictive pain medicines

The head of a leading drug manufacturer has been found guilty of bribing doctors to prescribe a dangerous painkiller to patients who did not need it, in the first criminal…

CBI registers case against two ESIC doctors for bribe

The CBI has registered a case against two doctors of the Insurance State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Vikas Gupta and Kajal Gooler for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 1 crore…