Aspen Pharma suffers week of woe as valuation tumbles by $3 bln

JOHANNESBURG: Aspen Pharmacare has lost about 45 billion rand ($3 billion) of its market value in just over a week in a sell-off sparked by concern over the South African…

Sir Ganga Ram Doctors dominated in felicitations by Vice President in Vigyan Bhavan

New Delhi: Sir Ganga Ram Hospital dominated in felicitations handed out by Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu at 19th Convocation and Award Ceremony of National Board of Examinations…

He won Grand Slam against Death, delivering the best ‘Serve’ of his life time

New Delhi: He delivered the best ‘serve’ of his life when he died. His three organs saved three end stage patients on the brink of death. Y. K. Bhalla, aged…

Punjab cabinet clears transfer of final land for AIIMS

Chandigarh: The Punjab Cabinet, headed by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, decided Thursday to transfer piece of land belonging to the state government to the Centre for the AIIMS project at…

India leads world charts for muti-drug resistant tuberculosis: WHO

New Delhi: India accounted for 24 per cent cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2017 — the highest in the world and followed by China’s 13 per cent and…

India eyes 100% switch from disposable to reuse prevention syringes by 2020

LUCKNOW: India has pledged to replace the currently prevalent disposable injections with reuse prevention (RUP) syringes by 2020. “Setting targets under the National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme, which was launched…

Creating Gene brotherhood for rare gift of life

New Delhi: Tejveer Singh and Zorawar Singh may be unrelated and separated by birth and status, they are inseparably bound up together. They are now gene buddy. Gene Bandhu, an…

Indian-American doctor pleads guilty to healthcare fraud in US

By Lalit K Jha Washington, Sep 20 : An Indian-American lady doctor has pleaded guilty to a healthcare fraud in the US, the Justice Department has said. Dr Jayam Krishna…

Care of an Alzheimer patient is the ‘mother’ of all cares

New Delhi: Alzheimer has put Karan Dubey in a queer role. His 93 year old mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer, has become a la a 4 year old child.…

Centre begins Ayushman Bharat outreach

New Delhi: Four days to go for a country-wide launch, the Centre is going on a publicity overdrive to create awareness for the PM Jan Arogya Yojana, also known as…