by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 8, 2026 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Regulation
The move addresses excessive trade mark-ups and aims to improve affordability while ensuring continued availability of these life-saving medicines.The measure is expected to reduce medicine prices by up to 70% and help cancer patients save ₹2,500 crore annually,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 29, 2026 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta asked the Centre to look into the issue of hospitals mandating the purchase of medicines from their chemists and said it is the common man who suffers from this system. “This is carnage. Plain and simple. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jun 9, 2026 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Doctors and drug distributors said supplies of drugs such as cisplatin and carboplatin, used to treat cancers of the lung, ovaries and gall bladder, have been tight in recent weeks. Kumar Ajit spent more than a week calling dozens of pharmacies in India before he...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 27, 2026 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
Raising the matter during Zero Hour in the Upper House, Desai cited findings from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, which revealed that of approximately 1,00,000 new lung cancer cases diagnosed in the country every year, around 40 per cent...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2026 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Regulation
To maximise the benefits of early detection, the study also recommended embedding diagnostic coverage and screening support into the scheme. Diagnostics currently account for just 3 per cent of total cancer care costs, yet they often fall outside AB-PMJAY and delay...
