Mukh Mantri Sehat Bima Yojana to cover 65 lakh families in Punjab: Kuldeep Dhaliwal
More than 24,000 families in the Ajnala constituency have already been issued health insurance cards under the scheme, the MLA said. Amritsar: Punjab’s Mukh Mantri Sehat Bima Yojana will extend…
PFRDA to launch NPS Swasthya with super top-up health insurance cover this week
The product allows reimbursement of medical costs without hospitalisation, a departure from insurance norms that generally tie a valid claim to a hospital stay. New Delhi: The Pension Fund Regulatory…
Insurers must compete on price and product quality, not distributor payouts: Irdai chief
Stakeholders can send comments on the distribution consultation paper until 25 October, after which draft regulations will go out for public consultation, Ajay Seth said. Mumbai: The Insurance Regulatory and…
Lupin gets tentative US FDA nod for apixaban oral suspension for patients who cannot swallow tablets
Once final approval comes through, the liquid anticoagulant will be made at Lupin’s plant in Somerset, New Jersey, the company said. Mumbai: Lupin has received tentative approval from the US…
Centre can invoke Patents Act to make costly patented cancer drugs affordable: Kerala High Court
The court stopped short of ordering the government to act, treating the matter as a policy call and asking the Centre to first gather nationwide data on how affordable such…
Sun Pharma licenses cholesterol drug lerodalcibep from LIB Therapeutics for markets outside US, China
US-based LIB Therapeutics will receive upfront and milestone payments along with royalties on net sales, while the remaining terms of the deal have not been disclosed. New Delhi: Sun Pharmaceutical…
Safdarjung Hospital performs its first dual kidney transplant using organs from marginal donor
The Indian Air Force airlifted the retrieved organs to Delhi from Command Hospital, Chandimandir, where the 62-year-old donor was declared brain dead. New Delhi: Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) and…
Hospital stocks slide up to 6% after Supreme Court flags drug mark-ups at corporate hospitals
The court asked the Centre why a 16 per cent retail margin could not apply to all medicines, and will hear the matter again on 12 October. New Delhi: Shares…
Medanta buys Rs 166 crore land parcel in Ghaziabad to build 350-bed tertiary care hospital
The project still needs statutory clearances and the approval of Global Health’s board of directors, the company said. New Delhi: Global Health Ltd, which runs hospitals under the Medanta brand,…
U.S. says two Indian nationals indicted in counterfeit Ozempic smuggling scheme
Between July 2023 and April 2024, Swapnadip Roy and Vicky Ramancha allegedly obtained counterfeit Ozempic in China and sold it to U.S. distributors at discounted prices, Justice Department said A…
