News Brief
-
Medical student’s suicide: Mumbai Police arrest one of the three accused doctors, say reports
-
Medical student’s suicide: Two health networks demand action in the ‘institutional murder’
-
‘Baseless allegation’: Hospital denies PM’s claim that it turned away patient with Ayushman card
-
Johnson & Johnson denies its baby shampoo in India contains ‘harmful chemicals’
-
Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo found to have ‘harmful ingredients’, says Rajasthan drug controller
-
Health ministry notifies new rules for drugs and clinical trials
-
Tamil Nadu: Baby’s head separated from torso during delivery at primary health care centre
-
Chhattisgarh: Ayushman Bharat is a handout to the rich businessmen in India, alleges Rahul Gandhi
-
Kerala: Seven-year-old tests positive for West Nile Virus, Centre sends team to the state
-
World Health Organisation appoints Soumya Swaminathan chief scientist of new division
-
Hyderabad: Infant dies, 22 ill after allegedly being given wrong medicine following vaccination
-
London patient ‘functionally cured’ of HIV after he has been in remission for over a year
-
Swine flu has already killed 169 this year, over 4,500 tested positive, shows data
-
Southern states show sharp decline in child sex ratio at birth, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka worst
-
Polio: No shortage of vaccine, immunisation programme not postponed indefinitely, says Centre
-
Kerala: One case of monkey fever confirmed in Wayanad district, another patient shows symptoms
-
Punjab calls for private players to run public health centres and charge patients for services
-
Srinagar: Inquiry ordered after woman gives birth on road as hospital allegedly refused to admit her
-
Rajasthan: Swine flu claims five more lives, toll since January 1 rises to 48, say authorities
-
Health ministry bans 80 more fixed-dose combination drugs, including antibiotics and painkillers
-
Chhattisgarh government adds eggs to mid-day meal menu to increase protein intake
-
Mamata Banerjee says West Bengal won’t pay for Ayushman Bharat, asks Centre to fund health scheme
-
Madras High Court stays ban on online sale of medicines
-
Zika warning: India asks US health agency to ‘withdraw or modify’ travel advisory
-
Plan to set up new regulatory body for Indian medicine approved by Union Cabinet
-
Madras HC asks Tamil Nadu government for report after woman gets HIV from transfused blood
-
Tamil Nadu: Pregnant woman contracts HIV after blood transfusion
-
Zika warning: US agency advises pregnant women not to travel to Rajasthan
-
Mumbai hospital fire: Human rights panel issues notice to Maharashtra government, Centre
-
Madras High Court bans online sale of medicines till new rules are notified
-
Mumbai hospital fire: Toll rises to eight with two more deaths, 176 injured
-
Mumbai: At least six people killed in fire at government hospital in Andheri
-
Delhi High Court lifts Centre’s restrictions on manufacture and sale of oxytocin by private firms
-
Delhi High Court orders stay on online sale of drugs and prescribed medicines
-
Faulty hip implants: Delhi HC refuses to urgently hear Johnson & Johnson’s plea against compensation
-
Johnson & Johnson faulty implants: Centre’s compensation formula unacceptable, say affected patients
-
Air pollution leads to more diseases than tobacco use in India, causes one in eight deaths: Report
-
Brazil: In a first, woman gives birth using womb transplanted from dead donor
-
Mid-day meal scheme: Supreme Court fines five states and Delhi for lapses in implementation
-
Johnson & Johnson hip implants: Centre approves compensations between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 1.23 crore
-
Kerala government issues advisory ahead of Nipah transmission season
-
Implant files only magnify experiences of a few patients, says US medical device trade association
-
Implant files: Cardiac stents top the list of medical devices connected to adverse events in India
-
Implant files: International journalism body creates database to track faulty medical devices
-
Samsung Electronics apologises for cancer cases at its semiconductor factories
-
India recorded three million fewer cases of malaria in 2017: World Health Organization
-
Zika strains in Jaipur do not have mutations linked to fetal microcephaly, says health ministry
-
Centre sends health experts to Madhya Pradesh to verify reports of Zika infection
-
Bihar: Infant dies allegedly after rats bite him at government hospital, inquiry ordered
-
WHO study reveals 93% of children in the world under the age of 15 breathe polluted air
-
Maharashtra: 268 people have died of swine flu in state in 10 months, says health minister
-
Swine flu: At least 12 people have died in Andhra Pradesh, number of cases surges in Telangana
-
Zika virus: Centre sends medical team to Rajasthan as number of cases rises to 100
-
Johnson & Johnson faulty hip implants: Victims to boycott compensation, say process not transparent
-
Zika virus: Twelve new cases reported in Jaipur, number goes up to 72
-
All patients fitted with Johnson & Johnson’s faulty hip implants can claim compensation, says panel
-
Health ministry confirms 29 Zika cases in Jaipur, deputes high-level committee for control measures
-
Fire breaks out at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, no injuries reported
-
Nobel Prize for Medicine jointly awarded to two cancer researchers from US and Japan
-
Health ministry orders investigation after some batches of oral polio vaccine found contaminated
-
Medical shops closed as chemists protest against Centre’s move to regularise e-pharmacies
-
Delhi: Toll due to diphtheria rises to 22, mayor says no shortage of antitoxin
-
Rajasthan: Doctors perform autopsy on the road in Barmer, say there’s no mortuary for 100 km
-
President clears ordinance to allow board of eminent personalities to run Medical Council of India
-
Tripura: Six die of malaria in six months, health minister says outbreak has been controlled
-
Tuberculosis infection: 27% of new cases in 2017 were reported from India, says WHO
-
India’s infant mortality rate dips to 32 in 2017 with vast improvements in gender gap: UN report
-
Delhi High Court allows pharma major Wockhardt to sell its fixed dose combination drug till Tuesday
-
‘No discrimination of leprosy patients’: SC issues guidelines for rehabilitation
-
Health ministry bans 328 fixed dose combination drugs with immediate effect
-
India accounted for 37% of suicides among women globally in 2016, 24% among men: Study
-
Maharashtra: Six people have died of swine flu in Pimpri Chinchwad this month
-
Johnson & Johnson got Justice BN Srikrishna’s clean chit in 2014, submitted it to police: Report
-
Overcharging by Delhi hospitals: Competition Commission to probe all super-specialty facilities
-
Johnson & Johnson should compensate those affected by faulty hip implants, says Centre
-
Health ministry releases draft rules to regulate online sale of medicines
-
Kerala: Health department issues alert for leptospirosis; 28 people have died since August 1
-
Delhi High Court stays restrictions on manufacture and sale of oxytocin till October
-
Patients with faulty hip implants underwent revision surgery due to pain: Johnson & Johnson report
-
Centre asks states to ban manufacture, sale of e-cigarettes
-
Health ministry panel report says Johnson & Johnson hid facts on faulty hip implants: Indian Express
-
Congo: At least 47 people reported dead in fresh outbreak of Ebola virus
-
Insurance regulator orders firms to include mental health in medical policies
-
Odisha announces its own health insurance plan, expected to benefit 70 lakh families
-
Indian pharmaceutical firm recalls drug from US after investigation into cancer-causing element
-
Sikkim will soon decriminalise drug use, treat it as an illness, says Chief Minister Pawan Chamling
-
India has made little progress on infant and child feeding policy in three years: report
-
Fortis CEO defends Rs 15 lakh fee charged in Gurugram dengue death case: Mint
-
After Nipah, case of West Nile virus suspected in Kozhikode
-
Watch: Fish swim around water-logged Patna hospital’s ICU after rain lashes city
-
Pollution by fine particulate matter killed 14,800 people prematurely in Delhi in 2016: Study
-
Aadhaar for health insurance scheme is desirable, not mandatory, clarifies Centre
-
Indian Psychiatric Society supports decriminalisation of homosexuality, says it’s not a disorder
-
Kerala declares Nipah-hit districts of Kozhikode and Malappuram free from the virus
-
Fortis Healthcare to sue firms owned by former promoters to recover loans
-
Writer, doctor Atul Gawande made CEO of Amazon’s joint healthcare company
-
Chennai: Private hospitals favour foreigners over Indian patients for organ transplants, says report
-
India records a 22% improvement in maternal mortality since 2013
-
Health ministry notifies Mental Healthcare Act that decriminalises suicide
-
Kerala: One more person succumbs to Nipah virus, toll rises to 17