UNAIDS calls for bold leadership to tackle HIV prevention crisis

Geneva: The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has urged countries to take bold action to address the HIV prevention crisis amid the ongoing 22nd International AIDS Conference in…

State to back strict domicile rules in MBBS admission

Opposing a bunch of petitions challenging the state’s rules for the ongoing 2018 MBBS admissions, the state Directorate of Medical Education and Research filed an affidavit before the Bombay high…

AstraZeneca sues DRL on patent

AstraZeneca has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against Indian drug maker Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to block it from launching generic versions of Brilinta, its blockbuster medicine for…

An 8 year old girl’s brain housed 100 tapeworm eggs!

New Delhi: In a shocking discovery, doctors at Fortis Memorial Research Institute found 100 tapeworm eggs in the brain of an eight-year-old girl. The condition is called Neurocysticercosis. The condition…

DISHA awaits guidelines from BN Srikrishna panel on data security

NEW DELHI: The health ministry may wait for the Justice BN Srikrishna committee to submit its recommendations on an all-encompassing data privacy law, before pushing a piece of legislation concerning…

HC stays Baba Ramdev’s Karauli dream project

Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has stayed the dream project of Baba Ramdev at Karauli district in Rajasthan. The Bharat Swabhiman Trust of Baba Ram Dev and the Govind Devji…

Malaria cases outpace dengue this season

NEW DELHI: Malaria is turning out to be the fastest spreading mosquito-borne disease this season. As per municipal data released on Monday, 75 people have been affected by malaria as…

Analjit Singh appointed non-executive Chairman of Max Financial Services

New Delhi: Max Financial Services, which houses the life insurance business of the $3-billion Max Group, has named its sponsor and founding shareholder Analjit Singh as nonexecutive chairman of the…

Apollo, Anonymous citizens & Social Media stood as one to save a Kashmiri Daughter

New Delhi: People with hearts of giving came to the rescue of a poor Kashmiri school girl who had only few days to live. She urgently needed a liver transplant.…

Lucknow: KGMU doctors remove 10-cm clot from man’s windpipe

LUCKNOW: A team of experts from King George’s Medical University’s (KGMU) respiratory intensive care unit (RICU) and ear, nose and throat (ENT) department saved the life of a 31-year-old road…