HEALTH NEWS


Ummar Jamal (Bar  and   Bench) 28 October 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday emphasised that society must stand with medical professionals, particularly those who sacrificed their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.   The Bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan was hearing a petition moved by the kin of medical professionals who...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 October 2025
The food safety and standards authority of India (FSSAI) has directed all states and Union Territories (UTs) to ensure the removal of the term ‘ORS’ (oral rehydration salts) from all food and beverage products being marketed across the country. The move is aimed at preventing the misleading use...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 15 October 2025
The Supreme Court recently issued show cause notices to 28 States and Union Territories (UTs) for failing to comply with its directions to frame uniform standards for patient safety in intensive care units (ICUs) and critical care facilities (Asit Baran Mondal & Anr. vs. Dr. Rita Sinha &...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 October 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a global medical product alert identifying three adulterated syrups manufactured in India, including the infamous Coldrif cough syrup, and urged health authorities worldwide to report immediately if any of these products are detected in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 October 2025
In a major breakthrough in the probe into the deaths of at least 20 children in Madhya Pradesh (MP) linked to a toxic batch of cough syrup, police have arrested G Ranganathan, the owner of the Chennai-based Sresan Pharmaceuticals that manufactured the medicine.   Mr Ranganathan, 75,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 September 2025
India’s health insurance sector has been jolted in recent weeks as the Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI), which represents more than 15,000 hospitals and healthcare institutions, clashed with leading insurers over tariffs, claim settlements and cashless services. At the heart...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 September 2025
Healthcare services across Maharashtra faced widespread disruption on Thursday as nearly 180,000 doctors observed a 24-hour strike to oppose the state government’s decision allowing homeopathic practitioners with a short-term certificate to be registered with the Maharashtra Medical Council...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 September 2025
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (Sun Pharma) has confirmed that the US food and drug administration (US FDA) has classified its Halol facility as 'official action indicated' (OAI), following an inspection conducted between 2nd June and 13 June 2025. The designation indicates that the plant is...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 12 September 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday asked why the blanket ban on firecrackers should apply only to Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) and not the entire country (MC Mehta vs. Union of India).    A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran stressed that...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 September 2025
The goods and services tax (GST) council has announced sweeping reforms in the GST structure that promise to fundamentally transform the accessibility and affordability of healthcare services and insurance products across the nation. The 56th GST council meeting, chaired by Union minister of...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 28 August 2025
The Supreme Court recently opined that a common Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) was required to ensure that trauma care facilities are accessible to citizens across India (Savelife Foundation & Anr v. Union of India & Ors).   A Bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi observed...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 21 August 2025
On July 31, 2025, Divya Unny, a writer-actor-director living in Mumbai, posted this reel about her poor experience with the Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), the Union government scheme providing free hospitalisation, which in Maharashtra, has been integrated with...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 14 August 2025
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday constituted an expert committee to examine the health impact on human beings due to feeding pigeons in public Kabutarkhanas (pigeon feeding zones) and to ascertain whether such feeding can be permitted in a regulated manner. (Pallavi Sachin Patil and Ors v...

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Megan Rose  and   Debbie Cenziper (ProPublica) 12 August 2025
The dispatches from one of India’s most troubled generic drug makers were contrite, filled with far-reaching promises to clean up its factory, stop contamination and send safe medication to Americans counting on the company’s drugs.   “We have started addressing FDA concerns very aggressively...

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Earlier this year, Delhi police’s crime branch raided several locations in Laxmi Nagar, Budh Vihar and Chandni Chowk and uncovered a cache of fake cancer medicines. The counterfeit drugs were neatly packaged and labelled to appear genuine, ready to be sold online to patients desperate for...

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Patricia Callahan (ProPublica) 28 July 2025
The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on a generic drugmaker that was the subject of a ProPublica investigation last year, citing problems with safety tests that delayed the recall of a medicine linked to deaths in the US.   In December, ProPublica reported that a Glenmark...

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Bar  and   Bench 25 July 2025
Private hospitals use patients like ATM machines, the Allahabad High Court said on Thursday while refusing to quash criminal proceedings in a medical negligence case against a doctor (Dr Ashok Kumar Rai v State of UP and another).   Justice Prashant Kumar found that Dr Ashok Kumar Rai, the...

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Medill Investigative Lab/ ProPublica 09 July 2025
Inspectors charged with safeguarding America’s drug supply say they are reeling from deep cuts at the Food and Drug Administration despite promises by the Trump administration to preserve the work of the agency’s investigative force.   Dozens of people who help coordinate travel for complex...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 July 2025
The national human rights commission (NHRC) has taken serious note of the shocking case of a fake cardiologist operating at Mission Hospital at Damoh in Madhya Pradesh (MP), where at least seven patients reportedly died following procedures carried out by the imposter. After completing its...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 09 June 2025
The Bombay High Court recently observed that mobile phones are no longer a luxury but an inevitable necessity, while setting aside a gram panchayat's decision to revoke permission for installation of a telecom tower (Indus Tower Limited and anr v. Gram Panchayat, Tanang and Ors).   The...

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