News and Updates
News and Updates
- Now, a Rape Victim Can Approach Doctor for a Medical Test Without Filing FIR
- Varanasi Infant 'Youngest' Eye Donor in India
- Stomach Trouble in Children is Food-Driven, Say Doctors
- Military Hospital Pune to Have Heart, Lung Transplant Units
- Dialling Up Support for LGBTs
- 11 Vidarbha Hospitals Will Get Advanced Radiology Services
- First Cross-Sectional, Multi-City Study Carried Out in India Related to Thyroid Dysfunction
- High Court Asks Maharashtra Government to Upload Malnutrition Data Online
- A Mighty Heart: Iraqi Man Lives With Disorders
- Schizophrenia Convention Brings Caregivers Together
- Good Samaritan Launches Mobile Clinic for Disabled
- Patent War Spills Over to Non-Cancer Drugs
- Now, ‘Printed’ Eye' Cells Raise Hope for Cure of Blindness
- Health Concerns Rear Head After Supreme Court Verdict Making Gay Sex a Crime
- 3.3 Million Saved Globally by Anti-Malaria Efforts: WHO
- Technology Boost to Ambitious Health Project
- Jayshree Mehta Elected First Woman President of MCI
- This Weekend, Over 100 HIV-hit to Choose Their Life Partners
- India is Head Injury Capital of the World
- $10,000 For Idea That Helps Combat Dengue
- Activists Upbeat About Committee on Clinical Establishment Act
- Blood Sugar Testing Strips to Cost Below Rs 5
- After SARS Epidemic, Corona Virus Threat Looms Over Gujarat
- Cancer Surveillance Launched to Check Delayed Diagnosis
- India Almost Wins Battle Against Malaria, Sees Steady Fall in Cases
- Sonia Hands Over Health Cards to RGJAY Beneficiaries
- RGJAY Formulated After a Lot of Research
- Rare Therapy Gives Choking Baby Breath of Fresh Air
- Walking Stick with Audio Alarm to Aid Blind People
- Centre may Mandate 10% of CSR Funds for Elderly
- World's First Malaria Vaccine May Hit Markets by 2015
- Down with Injury, Two Sportsmen Set Shoulders Right Before Big Wins
- American Doctors Reject New Cholesterol Calculator as Inaccurate
- India is World's Coronary, Diabetic Capital, Says Expert
- Needed: Overhaul of the Healthcare System
- Premature Births Rising in India: Report
- 40-Year-Old Rural Health Centre Bowls Over Prince Charles
- Maharashtra Govt to Take Heart Care to Rural Doorsteps
- FDA Bats for Guidelines to Monitor Booming Stem Cell Banking Industry
- Government okays advanced, Rs 450 crore cancer therapy centre
- Indian-American to be US Surgeon General
- ‘Designer Vagina’ Boom Worries Doctors
- Pneumonia, Diarrhoea Kill 400,000 Children in India Annually
- Cabinet Approves B.Sc. Community Health Course in State Universities
- Death risk higher among diabetics with foot ulcers
- 1st Case: New Bird Flu Virus in Humans
- A fact that can’t be sugarcoated!
- Watch grey area between above normal blood sugar & diabetes
- Indian-American transplant surgeon Dr Rahul Jindal gets highest US immigrant award
- Diabetes battle 'being lost' as cases hit record 382 million
- Every second Indian child is malnourished: Report
- New guidelines urge early use of cholesterol-busting drug
- Experts reshape treatment guide for cholesterol
- WHO praise for India; no polio case in 30 months
- Govt-run blood banks go online in Rajasthan
- NRHM to create awareness on health insurance
- Public Health: Tripura to introduce generic drugs
- Why diabetics should have regular eye exams
- Lasers may cure Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
- High blood-sugar makes Alzheimer's more deadly
- Medicos may Have to Take 2 Exams to Pursue PG Courses
- GE Healthcare reaches out to Indian villages
- Polio: Now, for the last mile
- Doctors Worried, Feel SC Verdict Could Demoralize Medical Fraternity
- Bad Diagnosis, Steroid Overdose Killed Anuradha
- Drug-Resistant TB Challenge for India
- SC orders Kolkata hospital to pay Rs 5.96 crore for medical negligence
- The Tale of Two Drops - "Do Boond Zindagi Ke"
- Autistic child is fit to attend school with shadow teacher: Rights panel
- Desi doctors find way to estimate bleeding risk
- Centre pitches for ban on gutka
- Conduct periodic checks of soft drinks: Supreme Court
- Obama Admits Web Site Flaws on Health Law
- Pharma Companies may move Clinical Trials out
- India has largest blind population
- Salary cap raised for availing ESI benefits
- Efforts on to make emergency services more prompt
- Maharashtra government provides accident cover for students
- Sania Mirza, Sonam Kapoor participate in Walk for Health
- Balasaheb Thackeray Trauma care centre to be opened today
- Ranbaxy gets CDSCO nod to sell malaria drug 'SynriamTM'
- Students unhappy on average, but VC firm on new MUHS policy
- University of Hyderabad to implement 'Barrier-Free Environment' for differently-abled students
- World Osteoporosis Day: Not just women; men too get affected by bone diseases
- MRI-compatible pacemaker offers hope for patients with risk of heart failure
- High BP during pregnancy may raise stroke risk
- Surrogacy becomes family enterprise in Gujarat
- Three Indians suffer a stroke every minute, Don’t know it
- SC to Centre: Reserve 3% govt jobs for disabled
- Doctors up in arms against CGHS
- Policymakers fret as condom use drops 40% in 5 years
- Self-medication for allergy can be dangerous
- Bad back a major reason for people missing work
- Pharma’s David and Goliath in Race to Produce Insulin Pill
- Doctors skipping rural service to lose licence
- Free medicines may be Gehlot’s game-changer
- Robust brain crucial for mental health in elderly
- Insurers in bind as medical advances push up claims
- Sancheti and Street Sense organised a walk by the children with Cerebral Palsy
- September 29 is World Heart Day: Cardiac diseases affecting Indian women more, warn doctors
- Health Minister calls for organising frequent blood donation camps
- Doing yoga during menopause may help treat insomnia
- Research to find new drugs losing steam
- Now, an alternative for heart transplant
- Health: Long monsoon spreading dengue
- With his marriage site, Dy RTO plays cupid for HIV-positive people
- Maharashtra to get 1,500 primary health centres, sub-centres: Chavan
- Maharashtra CM extends help to pvt hospitals
- GenNext turns to spirituality to beat stress, peer pressure
- Onslaught of viral diseases hits Mumbai, Oct may be worse
- 48% Mumbaikars at risk of heart attacks
- Chennai Chief surgeon J.S. Rajkumar becomes first in country to air surgery live via Google Glass
- Health Insurance in India still remains an untapped market
- Health remains low priority for our politicians and that must change: Dr Jagdish Prasad
- Now, 'paper-clip' implant to treat high blood pressure
- Acupuncture as good as counseling for depression: Study
- What is yoga breathing or pranayama?
- Children with Gaucher’s disease cry for help as treatment costs a bomb
- Maharashtra steps up efforts to cut IMR, keeps aside Rs 10-12 crore
- 4-yr-old Nigerian boy operated upon in Mumbai for rare heart disease
- Govt scheme to boost population of Parsis
- Supply essential drugs: Govt to cos, stockists
- Scientists find ‘blueprint’ for first universal flu vaccine
- Wow! Paraplegic woman hits the road to set record
- 100 children get gift of hearing at KEM with cochlear implants from charity
- Study: Drug-resistant TB in Mumbai air, families clear yet kids infected
- Yet Another Local Drug Maker Fails to Pass US Regulator’s Test
- BAMS doctors prescribe more irrational medication than allopaths, finds study
- Farmers face a rise in heart conditions
- Too much time on social media may hit memory
- Govt hosp doc faces punitive action for lethargy
- IIT profs call cell tower rules safe, doctors advise caution
- Docs misdiagnose dengue as cyst
- State to appoint dieticians for cops
- Alzheimer’s patients need supportive kin
- A liver transplant that gave them a new lease of life
- Two-foot blood clot removed from man’s heart in California
- 46 per cent of couples in India seeking medical help to conceive, finds survey
- One-year-old with brain injury responding after six months of treatment
- Drug makers to raise trade margins
- Intelligent IV line to curb med errors
- India records 5.2 million medical injuries a year
- Infertility experts say 63% childless couples consulting them in prime reproductive age
- Wearing Google Glass, Chennai doctor will perform major surgery
- Google to form new health company Calico led by Genentech chairman
- Doctors to organise rath yatra to spread 'healthy living' message
- India reports highest absenteeism due to asthma in Asia-Pacific region: Study
- Rare eye TB detected in Pune
- Govt to bear babus' medical treatment expenses abroad
- India gets WHO praise for no polio case in last 30 months
- Heart To Heart
- Targeting Neglected Diseases
- Disturbed ties with parents puts adolescents’ health at risk
- Air pollution can hasten complications in diabetics
- Slip of the lung
- Oral contraceptives sold sans guidelines: RTI reply
- First vaccine against MERS virus developed
- Sticking your neck out can be a real pain for you
- C-DAC technology promises to cut telemedicine cost by 80%
- Indians have 30% lower lung function than Europeans: Study
- Promoting a healthy attitude to health!
- Form F: Health officials face action for non-compliance
- 'Medical tourism' draws Americans to India
- Docs in a bind over insurance cos’ fixed rates
- Med tourism flourishes, but input costs worry
- Health experts warn of drug-resistant malaria
- Vascular disease: Major threat in minor form
- Vaccination, repellants must to counter KFD: NIV
- Master your body clock to lose weight
- The house physician
- Sex is all about neurotransmitters, tantra: expert
- New vaccine adjuvant from Ashwagandha gets US patent
- Crackdown on sale of banned painkiller drug
- GlaxoSmithKline Pharma loses patent claim on breast cancer drug Tykerb
- Short-term diets lead to long-term weight gain
- Most doctors don’t hold MBBS degree, says study
- Breastfeeding: World’s most effective, inexpensive life-saver
- Experts recommend breastfeeding babies for six months
- Man survives for record 2 years without heart
- Life Can Begin After Death
- No practice of organ donation in our country : Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
- Viral infections could also harm liver: Docs
- C-DAC’s new tool to aid dengue surveillance
- Indian-American doctors launch heart disease education networks
- Obamacare’s foot soldiers train to enroll the masses for healthcare
- Drugs on the Net
- FDA alert after cough syrup puts 3 in hospital
- False memory implanted in brain
- 50% organ needs can be met by brain-dead
- SoBo woman’s heart almost stops, docs blame dengue
- Severe strain of cholera suspected to be on prowl
- Women bear burden of contraception, just 1,600 men undergo vasectomy
- More youngsters getting sterilized
- In the works, an Epidemic Intelligence Service
- Girl’s rare condition sparks IVF debate
- Drop in ocean? 70k fined 1.4cr in a year for spitting on roads in city
- Healthy desi vegetables you may not have heard about
- In search of fair babies, Indians seek Caucasian donors for IVF
- Nation’s only yellow fever pill machine at standstill
- 11-year-old girl undergoes bariatric surgery
- India at high risk of importing MERS virus, say scientists
- Magnesium deficiency leads to insulin resistance
- Pancreatic operation sweetens baby’s life
- Pak docs save Thane man after mid-air heart attack
- Found: Way to fix Down’s syndrome
- Long hours at PC spell eye trouble for private sector employees: Study
- NIV takes up study of Congo fever
- CJI Kabir’s final judgment comes as boon for private medical colleges
- SC quashes common entrance tests for medical courses
- Fake yellow fever vaccine certs pose health risk
- National surveillance of CCHF needed: NIV
- Leptospirosis claims 4 lives in state
- FOGSI initiative to tackle maternal mortality in India
- Diabetologists happy as ban on pioglitazone is revoked
- Knee replacement surgeries in India on rise: US surgeon
- 6 from Gujarat test positive for Congo fever: NIV
- SAFE SEX IS AT HIGH RISK
- Govt to revoke ban on diabetes drug
- Government eases compensation for clinical trials
- New Rules Slow Pharmaceutical Trials in India
- Heart failure linked to air pollution: study
- Maharashtra Medical Council is curing the doc's bad hand
- How ticks spread Kyasanur forest disease to humans
- US patent for Gujarat seaweed that gives IQ high
- Maharashtra doctor files case over cut backs
- Magnetic pulses used in new treatment for depression
- Docs say drop painkiller with heart risk from essential list
- No research, no promotion for premier med faculties
- 38 govt medical colleges to get super speciality status
- First engg college for blind soon?
- A first for India: Unrelated cord blood transplant treats sickle cell disease
- The bittersweet truth about diabetes
- Choice before diabetics: Painful insulin or costly but less-effective drugs
- Govt cracks down on harmful drug combos
- India lauds UK’s new 3-parent IVF treatment move
- 14 ‘highly suspected polio cases’ found in state
- Born in Pakistan, saved by India: Pune doctors give new lease of life to five-year old girl
- Meditate on these findings
- Experts blame poor healthcare in rural hospitals
- Promising New Cancer Drugs Empower the Body’s Own Defense System
- State govt lists dos & don’ts for inspection of sonography clinics
- Govt, private hospitals told to display sex ratio at birth
- Nebulisers, source of infections: Study
- Public should see through surrogate ads: NGOs
- Small steps for parents of premature babies
- Study shows sex selection practices in docs’ families
- Regulators pull Johnson & Johnson's plant license on baby powder concerns
- Pakistani has a change of heart, and it’s Indian
- Book penned on psychiatric disorders now in Marathi
- New therapy for neuro disorders
- Prediabetes: An unsavoury wake-up call
- Soon, verify drugs and availability of blood online
- Strict Norms
- Staff crunch hits move to set up yellow fever vaccination centres
- Drug prices set to fall by up to 80%
- Govt notifies new drug price control order
- Janampatri to genomepatri, the leap forward in predicting future
- An app a day can keep the doctor away
- Maha does little to curb cases
- India tops ‘Born to Die same Day’ list
- Project to help kids with autism and cerebral palsy earns Goa NGO Canadian grant
- Stress on early detection
- Support group for parents with asthmatic kids
- New method reduces wait for liver match
- India's mobile user base best for mHealth services
- 70% of Donated Corneas Are Useless & Discarded
- Costly Disease For Poor Country
- SC Rules For Cheap Cancer Drug
- Autism Rises, But Care Improves
- South Fertility Rate Falling: Study
- Supreme Court Dismisses Plea of Novartis For Patent of Cancer Drug
- Hospitals Reluctant to Post IPF Details Online
- New Scare For Urban Women: Menopause In 20s
- New Scheme Promises Health Services to Children Up to 18 Years
- Helpline, Website Come to The Rescue of Neuro Patients
- Now, Your iPhone Can Double Up as a Hearing Aid
- Maternal & Child Healthcare Schemes All Set to Benefit
- Laser Eye Operation not Cosmetic Surgery: Forum
- Baby born with HIV 'cured'
- Marathoner’s death: Checkup must to rule out heart risks, say doctors
- Increasingly faced with severe health risk, here’s how young professionals can put their smart phones to better use
- Web-based surveillance system to track epidemics
- Delhi to launch DOTS in night shelters
- Include autism in medical curriculum: Azad
- Health Call: Creating Food to Fight Disease
- Govt to spend 2kcr on rural health infra
- Oxygen therapy promises faster healing of wounds
- Toll-free number launched for heart emergencies
- In UK, cancer becoming the biggest health risk
- India’s polio fight among greatest health successes : Bill Gates
- Indian scientist paves way for TB cure
- Migraines tied to heart risk
- 20k teachers to be trained in adolescent psychology
- Special wing, clinics to give teeth to MDR-TB fight
- Centre approves counsellors for Mumbai's drug-resistant TB patients
- Only 50 expert bariatric surgeons for 20L patients
- Standardization in health insurance to benefit buyers
- Pharma retail growth slows to 5% in Dec
- Health insurance: Sooner the better
- State to buy warmers for underweight newborns in rural areas
- India needs diabetes guidelines: docs
- Mediclaim plans to cost 30% more
- A hefty dose of profit
- IIT-M ready for production of artificial blood
- Bone test to determine minor’s age may be futile
- Juvenile arthritis can be problematic if ignored
- Eye donation gaining momentum in city
- Cell use, towers health hazard: Global survey
- Place health, education at centre of public debate : Amartya Sen
- Govt likely to ban testing of cosmetics on animals
- Free medical tests for civic school students’ parents, grandparents
- Practising what he preaches, doc to cycle from B’lore to Pune
- Brown fat transplant may fight obesity
- New breath test to diagnose TB in minutes
- Who should receive organ transplants?
- Cancer studies downplay chemo side effects: Study
- Pistachio helps fight heart disease, obesity
- Health claim approvals should be instant like credit cards
- Conference on urological practices
- BRICS to strengthen cooperation in health sector
- Software to cut human error in disability assessment
- Legalizing of Marijuana Raises Health Concerns
- India’s malaria mortality could be 20 times higher
- India is second largest drug exporter to US
- TOI Social Impact Awards: Wheeling healthcare to remote corners
- New drug can help paralyzed people walk again
- Complex therapies draw drugmakers
- Health Hazard: Mobile phone industry must have stringent radiation norms
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