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Star Health further expands its home health care network
Anand Roy, MD & CEO, Star Health Insurance, said, “It is a...
Regulatory standards must be stronger for quality medicines: Health secy
The meeting with state drug regulators comes in the wake of the...
Doctors to be penalised for not prescribing generic drugs, says new NMC regulation
Even though doctors are currently required to prescribe generic drugs only, there are no penal provisions mentioned in the regulations issued in 2002 by the Indian Medical Council "Every RMP (registered medical practitioner) should prescribe drugs using generic names...
Global Covid cases up 80% as new subvariant rises
In its weekly update, the UN agency said that nations reported nearly 1.5 million new cases from July 10 to August 6, an 80 percent increase compared to the previous 28 days.However the number of deaths fell by 57 percent to 2,500 Paris: The WHO declared in May that...
Action taken against 1.6 lakh claims worth Rs 287 crores under AB-PMJAY till Aug 5: Mandaviya
The anti-fraud structure under the scheme has National Anti-Fraud Unit at the central level, followed by State Anti-Fraud Units. NHA uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies to detect suspicious transactions or potential frauds under...
No evidence Facebook use linked to mental health harm, UK study finds
''This is not to say this is evidence that Facebook is good for the wellbeing of users. Rather, the best global data does not support the idea that the expansion of social media has a negative global association with well-being across nations and different...
WHO classifies EG.5 as COVID-19 ‘variant of interest’
"We don't detect a change in severity of EG.5 compared to other sublineages of Omicron that have been in circulation since late 2021.Collectively, available evidence does not suggest that EG.5 has additional public health risks relative to the other currently...
No proposal under consideration to change retirement age of central govt employees: Jitendra Singh
"Female government servant and single male govt servants appointed to the civil services and posts in connection with affairs of the Union, are eligible for child care leave (CCL) under Rule 43-C of the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972 for a maximum period...
Par panel recommends generating tribal disaggregated health data
The Committee recommended that the Ministry of Tribal Affairs work in tandem with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to generate tribal disaggregated health data with separate classifications like girl children, adolescent girls, women of various age groups and...
Show cause notices issued to 143 pharma firms after inspections
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued a notification on May 22 for amendment in export policy of cough syrups, making it compulsory for cough syrup...
AB-PMJAY: BAGI wins Gujarat, RGI bags Meghalaya, NIC retains Jharkand
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has outbid Oriental Insurance Company to win the mandate for Gujarat and Reliance General Insurance has pushed out National Insurance Company(NIC) for Meghalaya in competitive bidding Reliance General Insurance will be earning a premium...
Air pollution could be driving antibiotic resistance: New Lancet study
The association between PM2.5 air pollution and increase in antibiotic resistance has strengthened over time, with enhances in PM2.5 levels leading to larger increases in antibiotic resistance in more recent years, the analysis found using data for 116 countries from...