Fine on errant ‘Modicare’ insurers
NEW DELHI: The government has introduced tough penal provisions for delay in settlement of insurance claims under its ambitious Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS). Insurance companies may have…
Kolkata: Columbia Asia Hospital faces wrong blood transfusion charge
Kolkata: The family of a patient has lodged a case of medical negligence against the Columbia Asia Hospital in Kolkata. The family has alleged that the hospital staff infused blood…
NPPA fixes prices of 22 drug formulations
The national drug pricing regulator NPPA has fixed the retail and ceiling prices of 22 formulations used for treatment of various ailments including HIV, bacterial infections and cardiac conditions among…
Doctors perform first ever paediatric living donor liver transplant surgery in AP
VIJAYAWADA: City doctors successfully performed a rare living donor liver transplant on a 7-year-old kid K Ramya. Doctors of Manipal hospitals in city performed a 16-hour long marathon surgery to…
Bangalore health festival from June 14
Bengaluru: The second edition of the Bangalore Health Festival (BHF) will be conducted from June 14 to 17 at Palace Grounds. The four-day event will organise a series of talks…
Eli Lilly, Astra halt Alzheimer’s drug tests
London: British and American pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly on Tuesday said they were ending a large clinical trial of a treatment for Alzheimer’s that they had been developing together. The decision to…
Health spending pushed 55 million Indians into poverty in a year: Study
About 55 million Indians were pushed into poverty in a single year because of having to fund their own healthcare and 38 million of them fell below the poverty line…
Cricket brand Sourav Ganguli to bat for quality Generic Medicine
New Delhi: Costly branded medicines are burning large holes in the pockets of patients, so generic medicine is the need of the hour. The only concern that deflects from generics…
It is time to unlock India’s potential in biomedical science & innovation : Prof. Bejon Kumar Misra
India is a world leader in the pharmaceutical and biomedical sectors but unfortunately the patients are still denied safe and quality medicines as desired by the citizens. India accounts for…
Fortis board defers approving financial results again
New Delhi: Fortis Healthcare on Monday said its board has again deferred approval of quarterly and annual financial results for the period ended March 31, 2018, saying more time is…
