July 06,2024 New Delhi: Drug standards body Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) has issued a drug safety alert on commonly used drugs amlodipine and acetazolamide, saying both these medicines cause adverse reactions. Amlodipine – used for treatment of fatal coronary heart...

July 06,2024 London: Patients with type 2 diabetes taking GLP-1 treatments, which include Ozempic, have a lower chance of developing 10 types of obesity-related cancers than those taking insulin and other diabetes drugs, according to a study published on Friday....

July 06,2024 Thiruvananthapuram: A day after a 14-year-old boy died due to amoebic meningoencephalitis, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan held a meeting in which several suggestions, including not to bathe in unclean water bodies, were given to prevent further infections....

July 07,2024 Pune: The city is witnessing a sudden spike in typhoid cases, putting local medical professionals on alert. Adults as well as children have been affected by this recent outbreak, Pune Municipal Corporation Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) health department...

July 07,2024 New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association has demanded increased allocation of financial resources in the budget, advocating a tax-based system of health financing, the medical body said in a letter written to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday....

July 06,2024 New Delhi: Obesity can no longer be just defined by body mass index (BMI) and rather should be about how body fat is distributed throughout one’s body, researchers said while launching a new framework for diagnosing and managing...

June 26,2024 New Delhi: Almost 50 per cent of adults in India engaged in insufficient levels of physical activity in 2022, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health journal. Far more women in India (57 per cent)...

June 27,2024 New Delhi: All citizens aged above 70 years will be provided free treatment under the Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme, President Droupadi Murmu said on Thursday. The opening of 25,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras in the country is also...

June 27,2024 New Delhi: Throwing expired medicines with household trash is not an ideal way to get rid of them. The country’s drug controller is working on a guidance document detailing methods to be followed for safe disposal of unused...

June 29,2024 New Delhi: Nearly 80 per cent of public health facilities in India do not meet the minimum essential standards for infrastructure, manpower, equipment and other benchmarks set by govt. This shocking detail has emerged from a self-assessment exercise...