Apr 15,2024 Medical emergencies strike without warning, leaving us vulnerable and scrambling for the best course of action. In these moments of crisis, cashless health insurance emerges as a true lifesaver. It removes the immediate financial burden associated with critical...

Jul 14,2023 New Delhi: India’s lawmakers will consider a new drugs bill next week on rules for importing, manufacturing and selling medicines, according to a parliamentary notice on Thursday, as the country seeks to draw lessons from a deadly cough...

Apr 16,2024 Mumbai: A national study of 600 patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) showed that the majority (51 per cent) had advanced disease in which four or more drugs were ineffective, according to a newly published research paper. The study,...

Apr 15,2024 Bhopal: AIIMS Bhopal recently organised a Continuing Medical Education (CME) cum Workshop focusing on biomarker interpretation in Breast Cancer. Funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), ‘DIAMOnDS’ offers free-of-cost testing of biomarkers for breast and lung...

New Delhi: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals is recalling 6,528 bottles of a medication used to treat high blood pressure in the American market due to failed dissolution specifications, the US health regulator said. The US-based arm of the Mumbai-headquartered drug firm is...

Apr 14,2024 New Jersey: Researchers at Rutgers Health discovered that hypertensive problems during pregnancy are substantially related to deadly cardiovascular disease up to a year after birth. All hypertensive disorders that cause dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy–chronic hypertension, gestational...

Apr 09,2024 New Delhi: Nearly 3 out of 10 people in India, aged between 18 and 54 years, have never got their blood pressure measured. This has been revealed by the ICMR — National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research...

Apr 13,2024 New Delhi: To make the Human papillomavirus (HPV) tests affordable to the people, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has started a study of indigenous HPV tests for cervical cancer screening in India. The study will...

Apr 04,2024 New Delhi: COVID-19 replaced stroke to become the second-leading cause of death globally in 2021, causing 94 deaths per one lakh population and slashing life expectancy by 1.6 years, an international research published in The Lancet journal has...

Apr 05,2024 New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday expressed happiness over the Delhi health minister and health secretary deciding to implement the central government statute- ‘The Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010- to regulate clinical establishments in...