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IDRAI asks insurers to keep their offices opened during Mar 29-31 including Saturday & Sunday
The insurers have to give adequate publicity to the special...
Parl panel recommends single independent drug controller for AYUSH
It recommended that the reach should cover 50 per cent of Indian...
India finds ‘violations’ at cough syrup maker linked to Cameroon deaths
Authorities have stepped up scrutiny of drugmakers after some cough syrups made in India were linked to deaths of dozens of children overseas The government has found violations related to manufacturing and laboratory practices at drugmaker Riemann Labs, whose cough...
Health ministry’s e-initiative clocks 14.17 cr teleconsultations since April 2021
The telemedicine application provides doctor-to-doctor and patient-to-doctor consultations, Mandaviya said responding to a question. The application, launched on April 13, 2021, works on a hub and spoke model where doctors, including specialists, provide services to...
No paucity of funds, asking states to increase expenditure on health and related infra: Mandaviya
Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya said the government is spending Rs 64,000 crore under the Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure in five years On an average, Rs 100 crore would be spent in a...
India orders drugmaker linked to Cameroon cough syrup deaths to stop manufacturing
The move comes as Indian regulators step up inspections at drugmakers after cough syrups made in the country were linked to the deaths of dozens of children overseas, denting India's image as the "pharmacy of the world" New Delhi: The Indian government has ordered a...
71% of world’s population protected by at least one tobacco control measure
Around 1.3 million people die from second-hand smoke every year. All of these deaths are entirely preventable. People exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke are at risk of dying from heart disease, stroke, respiratory diseases, type 2 diabetes and cancers In the last 15...
IRDAI appoints Liberty General Insurance as “Lead Insurer”(Non-Life) for Delhi
Liberty General Insurance has been appointed as the “Lead Insurer”(Non-Life) for Delhi by the IRDAI. This appointment is part of IRDAI’s State Insurance Plan, which aims to enhance financial awareness and drive insurance inclusion in collaboration with other insurers,...
Over 350,000 children in developing world missing out on cancer treatment
The WHO also announced that cancer medicines are among those that have been added to the latest version of the WHO Essential Medicines List and the Essential Medicines List for Children, Geneva: Treatment remains out of reach for hundreds of thousands of children...
Westernisation of diets, unhealthy sedentary lifestyle cause of fatty liver: AIIMS Delhi
Notably, hepatitis can arise from damage to the liver from certain viruses (such as hepatitis B and hepatitis C), alcohol intake, metabolic disease leading to "fat" deposition in the liver and certain drugs. The hepatitis B and C viruses can also cause chronic liver...
AIIMS-Delhi got Rs 23 cr from govt in 5 years for rare diseases: RTI reply
Overall the Centre has released around Rs 90 crore in funds to several Centres of Excellence (CoE) for treatment of rare diseases since 2019, the information received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act showed New Delhi: The AIIMS-Delhi received more than Rs 23...
1,774 health facilities in 32 states/UTs have adopted ‘Scan and Share’ service for seamless OPD registration: Govt
A total of 52 lakh tokens have been generated using the service under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) which aims to create a digital platform enabling interoperability of health data within the health ecosystem to create longitudinal electronic health...