Apr 21,2024 Thiruvananthapuram: Health minister Veena George has instructed the director of health department to take further action under Kerala Public Health Act, 2023, in the wake of bird flu outbreak in two wards in Alappuzha. Panchayat-level committees under the...

Apr 21,2024 New Delhi: Natco Pharma failed to maintain cleanliness, sterilise equipment and utensils at appropriate intervals at its Telangana-based plant, as per the US health regulator. In the warning letter to the company, US Food and Drug Administration said...

Apr 22,2024 Washington: The role of India in the medical product field represents both a unique opportunity and an important responsibility, the head of the US Food and Drug Administration has said, ahead of the annual India-US BioPharma & Healthcare...

Apr 23,2024 Mumbai: Insurance regulator Irdai is pushing companies to ensure that health covers are available to all age groups, as well as those with pre-existing diseases, mental health issues and women, to ensure that there is greater coverage and...

Apr 09,2024 Mumbai: After suffering from lower abdominal pain for the last two months, 32-year-old Nashik resident Dhrusti Bhonsale (pictured) got her inflamed appendix removed in a novel way: from her mouth. Doctors from state-run JJ Hospital didn’t make a...

Apr 09,2024 Geneva: More than 3,500 people die from hepatitis viruses every day and the global toll is rising, the World Health Organisation warned on Tuesday, calling for swift action to fight the second-largest infectious killer. New data from 187...

Apr 13,2024 The first drug shown to slow Alzheimer’s disease hit the U.S. market over a year ago, but sales have lagged, major hospital systems have taken months to start using it and some insurers have rejected coverage. Doctors also...

Apr 15,2024 Mysuru: Former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation AS Kirankumar on Sunday called upon budding doctors to ensure better quality healthcare services to the people. He was speaking at the 95th graduation ceremony of Mysuru Medical College and...

Apr 15,2024 New Delhi: After the medical journal Lancet’s claim on the lack of accuracy and transparency in sharing data on health raised concerns, government sources asserted that India has a robust system of documenting births and deaths under the...

London: The cybersecurity firm BrandShield has taken down more than 250 websites selling fake versions of popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs in the GLP-1 class, the company’s CEO Yoav Keren told Reuters. BrandShield, which shared this information exclusively with Reuters,...