NPPA Revises Retail and Ceiling Prices of 35 Drug Formulations; Fixes Prices of 34 New Drugs, Cholecalciferol, Oxaliplatin and Sun Pharma’s Diclofenac Gel
ED attaches assets, freezes bank account in counterfeit medicines racket; searches five premises in Bengaluru
Hyderabad Startup Working On Personalised Cancer Vaccine: What It Means For Cancer Treatment
Medicines that cure Us are making Our Environment Sick
ZEN- G packs a punch in Organ Donation as Over 500 Students pledge Organs
PGIMS recalls drug amid probe into deaths
NPPA list brings little relief: No price cut for 25% cancer drugs
Centre Mandates Minimum One-Year Shelf Life For Imported Drugs
For Aakash Healthcare, Community People are Apples of its Eyes
Not mandatory to recall stocks released to the market prior to implementation of TMR: NPPA‘BeFast’ to outpace approaching stroke to reach hospital
New Delhi: Thankfully, debilitating medical event stroke (brain attack) does not catch you unawares. It gives you strong signs to allow you to avert it. Even if it is a…
Dr Robot is at its best in BLK Super Specialty Hospital
New Delhi: As robot is only as good as a surgeon at the consol, the presence of renowned Dr Surender Dabas, Director, surgical oncology and Chief robotic surgery at BLK,…
Surrogacy can make India ‘Pregnant’ with huge foreign revenue
New Delhi: Indian wombs can be milch cows for earning foreign revenue for India. This can also be a means of turning around the lives of a large number of…
Private equity firm EQT launches $654 mln cash bid for Sweden’s Karo Pharma
STOCKHOLM: Private equity firm EQT on Monday made a recommended 5.97 billion Swedish crown ($654 million) cash bid to buy Swedish specialty pharma group Karo Pharma. The offer, made by…
India and Japan for the first time to cooperate in Yoga, Ayurveda
TOKYO: India and Japan on Monday decided to cooperate for the first time in the areas of Indian traditional medicinal systems such as Yoga and Ayurveda to provide holistic healthcare…
Lucknow: No claim allowed for treatment at private hospitals, government employees up in arms
LUCKNOW: State government employees and pensioners are up in arms against a recent order which has stopped them from submitting claim against medical expenses if treatment has taken place in…
No amenities in govt hosp to treat cancer
Vijayawada: An estimate of 58,072 people in Andhra Pradesh have had cancer in 2016 and nearly 30,000 people died due to some form of cancer in the same year. Despite…
Need to create a robust pipeline for career progression for doctors : Nishi Saini
By Nishi Saini What makes a good doctor? How might he or she be assessed? Could it be the level of confidence inspired in a patient? Perhaps, it is the…
Private Bus staff involved in Drug Smuggling
Srinagar Police recently busted a drug racket that made use of private bus staff members to transfer drugs from Jaipur to Srinagar. Police seized highly addictive narcotic pills that were…
Paralysis fear in zika ground zero
AHMEDABAD: Researchers analysing patients suffering from Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) in South India recently found antibodies that combat zika virus (ZikV) in their blood samples. This has already put Gujarat health…