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
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
New Delhi: A new study by UK-based medical journal Lancet has found that seven per cent of anti-malarial drugs tested in India are of poor quality and many are fake. The study goes on to say that 1 in every 3 anti-malarial drugs sold in southeast Asia are also fake. Researchers analysed data based on 1400 drug samples in five classes from seven Southeast Asian countries to reach to this...
10:11 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Babies who are breastfed gain less weight over their first year of life compared to babies fed either breast milk or formula from a bottle, according to a U.S. study. The report, in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, is one piece of a growing body of evidence that breastfeeding appears to be the best choice for a newborn and protect against obesity later in life. Lead...
03:47 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: Yoga guru Ramdev's trust have challenged the action of the Income Tax department to slap a tax demand of Rs 58 crore on their income through sales of ayurvedic medicines. "Since inception we have been doing charity in terms of providing medical relief and other such activities to the needy. We have challenged the I-T department's notice at the Commissioner of I-T (Appeals) office and we know that...
08:32 PM, May 17, 2012
HYDERABAD: The popular fish medicine for asthma patients administered by the Bathini Mrigasira Trust will be distributed at the trusts centre in Kattedan village from this year, instead of the Nampally exhibition grounds where the camp is conducted annually.The free medicine for chronic asthma patients will be administered on June 8 and 9 this year.The 167-year-old practice draws thousands of patients annually.The venue for the two-day camp was shifted from...
08:05 AM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Rs 600 crore Ayurveda industry in Kerala is facing its biggest challenge. The state government is clamping down on what it considers dubious claims by three companies that promise magical remedies. Products worth almost Rs 2 crore have been seized and the three major companies may lose their licences. The Drugs Controller of Kerala is set to cancel the licenses of the Ayurvedic giants for violating provisions...
07:42 AM, May 16, 2012
Mumbai: By the time you're done watching this report, somewhere in the world - a child would have succumbed to malaria. A public health disaster in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South East Asia, Malaria poses a threat to a 100 crore Indians, according to the latest World Malaria Report. About 1.5 million people suffer from malaria annually. A study published in the medical journal The Lancet, finds cases of...
10:14 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Mumbai: The Indian healthcare industry is rapidly growing at 12 per cent but yet the sector is in shambles. The sector, therefore, has high expectations from the Union Budget, both for reforms and expenditure. India's healthcare industry is currently valued at $ 65 billion. Assocham and rating agencies expect it to hit $ 125 billion by 2015. Yet, the sector is in shambles, with just one hospital bed available for...
10:14 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Mumbai: A new concern has come to light for those battling breast cancer. A drug commonly used in India to treat the condition has been found to decrease bone density in older women. Considered a 'wonder drug' for breast cancer treatment, Exemestane, sold under the brand name, Aromasin, is commonly used in India. It is often prescribed for daily use to breast cancer patients for a period of five years....
09:51 AM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a move that could have far reaching implications for the health sector, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government is planning to give free medicine for all through Public Health Facilities under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The decision comes even as the Health Ministry is working towards the goal of universal health care for all. On Wednesday the Union Cabinet cleared the setting up of a...
05:25 PM, Feb 29, 2012
On a day when television channels stayed focused on the fallout of the ongoing tussle between the Army Chief and the Government, hundreds of people ...
03:52 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Los Angeles: It's become standard-operating procedure when a celebrity dies too young - investigators immediately go looking through their nightstand and medicine cabinet. That effort is well under way in the death of Whitney Houston, with investigators saying Wednesday they have subpoenaed records from the singer's doctors and pharmacies who dispensed medication found in her hotel room. The inquiries are routine in virtually all death investigations, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed...
12:05 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Bangalore: Government hospitals in districts and local bodies across Karnataka will provide the Indian system of medicine as an alternative treatment, Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said on Friday. "Our government has recognised the importance of yoga in daily life and has given priority to promote the Indian systems of medicine through state-run hospitals in districts and local bodies for extending natural health services to the public," Gowda said at...
03:37 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Barabanki: Wooing voters ahead of Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday promised free education, medicines for the poor and waiver of farmer's loan by Rs 50,000 if voted to power. Addressing an election rally, Yadav said the party will also send poor people to foreign countries for treatment on government expenditure. Yadav also promised a ministerial berth to the local MLA in the...
03:27 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Contaminated heart medicine handed out to Pakistan's poorest leaves hundreds severely ill. ...
08:29 AM, Jan 30, 2012
When can a baby girl born in Madhya Pradesh expect to live as long and healthy as a baby girl born in Kerala, overcoming the six-fold higher risk of dying before her first birthday? When will a rural Indian have the same level of satisfaction about the healthcare he or she receives, as a foreign medical tourist featured in the brochures of corporate hospitals? Will the 40 million Indians, who...
10:17 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Lahore: The number of people who died after taking spurious drugs supplied by a state-run hospital in Pakistan's Punjab province has touched 100 even as scores more continue to be treated in hospitals across the province, officials said on Thursday. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who also holds the health portfolio, on Wednesday acknowledged that drugs supplied by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology had caused the deaths of 100 patients. Earlier,...
08:19 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has labelled a hospital's claims of a fatal tuberculosis strain as premature. The question is whether the government is downplaying the disease. 1,000 Indians die of tuberculosis every day and 20 per cent of the total TB deaths in the world take place in the country. The picture seems to be getting darker with reports that show 12 cases of the killer, totally drug resistant TB....
10:21 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Some leading practitioners of ayurveda will speak on various facets of the traditional form of medicine at the global festival, starting here on Feb 9, organisers said. The six-day event will see participation of more than 2,500 practitioners of ayurveda and students from various colleges. "Through this festival, students will be taught the basic principles of ayurveda. More than 120 papers will be presented and 17 ayurveda colleges in...
05:33 PM, Jan 17, 2012
