With Cabinet approving the new drug pricing policy, which caps prices of 348 essential drugs, medicines for cancer, diabetes, hypertension and renal failure will soon get cheaper. The new policy is expected to cover up to 30 percent of the total drugs sold in the country, according to industry reports. ...
11:52 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Mumbai: In a shocking study published in medical journal, The Lancet, scientists have found that one-third of malaria medicines in South East Asia and Africa are either fake or of poor quality. What is even worse is that a majority of these fake medicines are being manufactured in India and China. According to teh World Health Organisation (WHO), 2,500 people die worldwide every day of malaria. The Lancet study says ...
01:14 PM, May 24, 2012
Contaminated heart medicine handed out to Pakistan's poorest leaves hundreds severely ill. ...
08:29 AM, Jan 30, 2012
From 99 remedies 200 years ago to more than 5000 today, the homeopathy industry is growing at 30 per cent annually. ...
03:01 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: India recorded 25 million cases of Malaria and 30,000 deaths in the year 2009 - according to the World Health Organisation. That's one tenth the number of cases worldwide. And now a bigger threat emerging is that of drug resistance. About ten years ago, the most commonly used anti-malaria drug Chloroquine, stopped working against the malaria parasite, forcing countries to switch to the second line of treatment, called ...
09:24 AM, Apr 25, 2011
From India's first indigenous Swine flu vaccine to a superbug named after India, catch the top health news of 2010. ...
12:02 PM, Dec 31, 2010
A Food and Drug Administration committee in the US will today decide on its safety and effectiveness. ...
10:03 AM, Jun 19, 2010
Doctors they say are healers and sometimes the only god for life but today the doctor is feared more than the disease. India today is increasingly producing a generation of doctors who are taking bribes instead of the Hippocratic oath. It’s a decay that has become part of the system, a system where trust deficit makes patients anxious every time they visit their doctors. ...
08:45 PM, May 16, 2010
CJ Suraj's wife, who was carrying a dead foetus in her womb, died of docs negligence in Delhi. ...
03:18 PM, May 09, 2010
CJ Suraj's wife, who was carrying a dead foetus in her womb, died of docs negligence in Delhi. ...
03:18 PM, May 09, 2010
Experts say there is a need for newer forms of defence. ...
03:16 PM, Oct 03, 2009
Thirty-four children have died after taking toxic medicine. ...
03:02 AM, Dec 20, 2008
A sponsored featured on an alternative cure for the disease. ...
10:35 PM, Dec 06, 2008
With time the body stops responding to medicines. ...
07:58 PM, Sep 07, 2008
Manchester: Former England cricket star Andrew Flintoff is already contemplating more boxing bouts if his professional debut against Richard Dawson of the United States on Friday is a success. Freddie, as he is known to cricket lovers around the world, will break new ground when the 34-year-old squares up to Dawson in a four-round heavyweight contest at Manchester Arena for his first professional bout. Flintoff has been trained for the ...
03:04 AM, Jul 25, 2008
Nagpur: Netherlands captain Peter Borren hopes playing in the World Cup will have long-term benefits for Dutch cricket in a country where football and hockey are king. "We've had a bit more exposure than cricket normally gets in Holland," said Borren. "On Sunday we had a segment on television, a 45-minute programme on cricket, which doesn't happen normally. "With football and hockey the dominant sports back home, us coming here ...
03:12 AM, Dec 20, 2007
Skin problems or constipation, the doctor will help you in finding a cure. ...
11:55 AM, Oct 13, 2007
Watch a CNN-IBN Special Investigation unmask fake doctors. ...
12:20 PM, Sep 13, 2007
Laughter is not only the best medicine for common ailments but it also helps you reduce weight, say experts. ...
06:20 PM, Aug 22, 2006
