'On International Diabetes Day (November 14), a paper published in The Lancet, based on a global study, recorded over 800 million adults living with diabetes, with more than half not receiving treatme Read More...
'The Delhi High Court last week issued directions aimed at improving the availability of so-called “orphan drugs”, which are medications used to treat “rare diseases” — d Read More...
'World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the Government of India has eliminated Trachoma as a public health problem becoming the third country in the South-East Asia Region to achieve this m Read More...
'The public health needs of a population are diverse and perception and prioritisation vary across the social strata.' Public health policies are those decisions made by the government based on the Read More...
'Mumbai-based Entod Pharmaceuticals has announced that the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) — the country’s apex drug regulator — has approved its new eye drop, which has been Read More...
'Finding that 30-year-old Harish Rana was not being kept alive ‘mechanically’, the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court recently rejected a plea by his parents for constituting a medical Read More...
'Justices Hima Kohli and Sandeep Mehta, while hearing the ongoing Supreme Court case against Patanjali Ayurved, pulled up the AYUSH ministry for its July 1 notification asking state licensing authorit Read More...
'The government has banned 156 fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs, including popular medicines such as Cheston Cold and Foracet, used for cold and fever and pain respectively.' The ban is the mos Read More...
'Ensuring the affordability of pharmaceuticals is essential for controlling healthcare costs, especially in India, where out-of-pocket health expenditures accounted for nearly 47.1% of the total healt Read More...
'A two-year-old child in Tikrikilla, Meghalaya has been infected with vaccine-derived polio.' This is not a case of wild poliovirus, but an infection that presents in some people with low immunity. Read More...
