New committee to decide final compensation for patients with J&J’s controversial hip implants
NEW DELHI: The government has constituted a new central expert committee to determine how much patients with Johnson & Johnson’s ‘ASR’ hip implants should be compensated, according to a new…
J&J told to pay Rs 20 lakh to each recipient of faulty hip implant
NEW DELHI: In a decision that will offer relief to patients suffering from Johnson & Johnson’s faulty hip implants, the Indian drug regulator has asked the global health major to…
1.8 crore poor families to get health insurance
PATNA: Around 1.80 crore poor and vulnerable families comprising around 5.85 crore people in Bihar would get health insurance cover up to Rs5 lakh under Ayushman Bharat, a scheme of…
All’s not well with central health scheme: Members
KOLKATA: More than 1.75 lakh beneficiaries of Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), the health scheme meant for current and retired central government employees, have been facing trouble for the past…
Legal Awareness and Child Protection is the requirement of time!!
Recently the news that made all of us shocked that school kids were used as drug mules by a man to send MD/Meow Meow to his clients. Mumbai police narcotics…
Uttarakhand High Court ordered to the state government to seal all the illegal Clinical Establishments Violating Rules
Uttarakhand high court directed the state government that all the clinics should be sealed which are not registered under the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010. Chief justice Rajiv…
Karnataka may opt out of Centre’s health scheme
BENGALURU: As the Centre gets ready to roll out its ambitious Ayushman Bharat scheme, Karnataka may opt out of the proposed scheme and continue with its Arogya Karnataka health programme.…
Govt lifts ban on retail sale of oxytocin, with curbs
The health ministry has lifted the ban on retail sale of oxytocin, an essential drug used to prevent and treat bleeding after child birth, but imposed strict regulations on its…
Right to healthcare to prevail over right to voluntary retirement: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled that the larger public interest of health and medical care would prevail over the right to voluntary retirement by the doctors as medical services are…
Four-member body comes into being to revamp Maharashtra Medical Council Act
MMC wants to be able to take strict action against unethical practices at healthcare insts across state Over five decades after the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) Act, 1965, came into…
