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Health, life insurance premium to fall if GST Council decides to reduce taxes on premium: FM
Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister "…The matter of review of GST...
Insurance (Amendment) Act, 2024: Govt has no composite plans for LIC and PSU general insurance companies
To enable PSU insurers to avail composite licenses, the government...
What is Marburg disease and should India be worried?
According to the WHO, the Marburg virus disease is a highly virulent disease with a fatality ratio of up to 88 per cent. It is in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola virus disease. Illness caused by the Marburg virus begins abruptly, with high fever, severe...
Patient safety is an imperative dimension in ensuring quality healthcare: MoS Bharati Pawar
Bharati Pravin Pawar,Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar further highlighted that Jan Aushadhi stores provided generic medicines and Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for...
Medical negligence: Police rely on state medical council’s opinion in absence of law
''The investigating officer should, before proceeding against the doctor accused of rash or negligent act or omission, obtain an independent and competent medical opinion preferably from a doctor in government service qualified in that branch of medical practice who...
No age bar for cadaver registrations under ‘One nation one Policy’
"The changes in the guidelines will help patients in seeking transplant from deceased donors at any hospital in the country or states, this will ease the process of organ transplantation and donation," an official source from Union Health Ministry said. New Delhi: The...
E-pharmacies under radar; Union Health Ministry to initiate stern action
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) issued show-cause notices to over 20 online pharmacies and online platforms, that includes some big players as well in the industry such as Tata1mg, Practo, Apollo Amazon, Flipkart, etc. New Delhi: The Union...
Govt’s free telemedicine service reaches 10 cr beneficiaries: Mansukh Mandaviya
The National Telemedicine Service, ''eSanjeevani,'' a digital health initiative of the ministry supports two types of teleconsultation services – Doctor-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani) and Patient-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani OPD) teleconsultations. New Delhi: The central...
Countries join forces to fight back against harmful beauty practices
“Mercury is a hidden and toxic ingredient in the skin lightening creams that many people are using daily, often without an understanding of just how dangerous this is”, GEF CEO and Chairperson Carlos Manuel Rodriguez said Geneva: The governments of Gabon, Jamaica and...
Rising toll makes quake deadliest in Turkiye’s modern history
Confirmed deaths in Turkiye passed those recorded from the massive Erzincan earthquake in 1939 that killed around 33,000 people. Speaking in Ankara following a five-hour Cabinet meeting held at the headquarters of disaster agency AFAD, Erdogan said 47,000 buildings,...
Insurers are committed to making a bigger impact on mental health, says Geneva Association report
For life and health insurers, who absorb related financial shocks through disability and income protection insurance, this is manifest in paying out close to USD 15 billion in mental health-related disability insurance claims annually. In many countries, this number...
Bird flu spreads to new countries, threatens non-stop ‘war’ on poultry
Outbreaks of the virus have continued in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa, undefeated by summer heat or winter cold snaps, since a strain arrived in the United States in early 2022 that was genetically similar to cases in Europe and Asia The virus...