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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 09 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Central government to formulate a scheme for cashless medical treatment for motor accident victims in the "golden hour" period mandated under law (S Rajasekaran v. Union of India).   The golden hour is the the first 60 minutes after a traumatic...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 January 2025
Union health secretary Punya Salila Srivastava has emphasised that there is no cause for concern for the public from the human metapneumovirus – HMPV.    During a virtual meeting with states and Union Territories (UTs), the health secretary reviewed the present situation of respiratory...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 January 2025
The insurance regulatory and development authority of India (IRDAI) has directed that claim settlement should be done immediately or within an hour to ensure no delay in discharge from the hospital. However, six in ten health insurance policy owners surveyed who filed a claim in the past three...

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Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 31 December 2024
This year, India recorded more cases of chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis compared to 2023, while dengue and malaria cases are showing up well beyond the usual months. A strain of encephalitis-causing virus called the Chandipura virus (CHPV) caused an outbreak in Gujarat, Maharashtra,...

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It has been over 30 years since Japanese auto manufacturing company Denso Wave first used the quick response (QR) code. Initially, QR codes were used for high-speed scanning and tracking of components during the assembly process. However, as it happens with every new technology or design,...

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Menaka Rao (IndiaSpend) 16 December 2024
About 45% of households with tuberculosis (TB) patients suffered catastrophic costs--defined here as expenditure that is more than 20% of annual household income, a new study published this week in the journal Global Health Research and Policy showed. The poorest households, and those who are...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 02 December 2024
In late September 2024, the high court of Chhattisgarh registered a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) over two non-functional oxygen plants at the Bilaspur district hospital, alleging that the plants had been operated by untrained operators and that their failure necessitated that the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2024
The 1,200-page charge-sheet in the spurious drugs supply case, submitted by Nagpur rural police on 20 September 2024, has revealed startling facts. The antibiotics distributed to the govt hospitals were nothing but talcum powder mixed with starch, made in a Haridwar-based laboratory of...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 20 September 2024
Ruhi Shelke, a working professional in her early 20s, likes the banana chips from her favourite local chain, Hot Chips. “They make it hot and fresh right in front of my eyes,” she says. The outlet claims to be using sunflower oil, but the clear plastic packaging does not specify the amount of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 September 2024
The Union Cabinet has approved health coverage to all senior citizens aged 70 years and above, irrespective of income, under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY). This will benefit about 45mn (million) families, with 60mn senior citizens receiving Rs5 lakh free...

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The quality of water in Venna Lake, the sole source of drinking water for Mahabaleshwar, which had faced severe contamination due to the rundown of equine waste, has significantly improved as the authorities are now collecting the waste from the plateau above the lake and sending it to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 August 2024
After banning 156 fixed-dose combinations (FDCs), the Indian government is likely to add more FDC drugs to the list, says a report from Economic Times (ET). This move, the report says, could hurt pharmaceutical makers more.    Earlier, the government had banned 156 fixed-dose...

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Anadi Tewari (Bar  and   Bench) 27 August 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Central government's decision to omit Rule 170 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, which was aimed to tackle misleading advertisements of Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani drugs (Indian Medical Association & Anr v. Union of India and Ors).   A letter by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 August 2024
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for a 24-hour nationwide withdrawal of non-emergency services from 6am on Saturday (17th August) to protest against the alleged rape and murder of a trainee woman doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata and the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 August 2024
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) recently ordered the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, Delhi and the head of its cardiac department to pay Rs65 lakh as compensation to the family of a 62-year-old man who was left partially paralysed after an...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 06 August 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday told Indian Medical Association (IMA) President Dr. RV Asokan that he has to publish apologies in all prominent newspapers for his statements criticising the Supreme Court (Indian Medical Association and anr vs Union of India and ors).   A Bench of Justices Hima...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 05 August 2024
Unable to eat, and depending solely on oral rehydration solutions, Ahmed* (40) spent the last 15 days of his life hoping to get an endoscopic procedure at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, 350 km away from his hometown in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. He died on July...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 29 July 2024
The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered Patanjali Ayurved and its promoters, including Baba Ramdev, to take down claims that allopathy doctors were responsible for the deaths of lakhs of people during the COVID-19 pandemic, while promoting Patanjali's Coronil as a "cure" (Resident Doctors...

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Nileena Suresh (IndiaSpend) 25 July 2024
This year, the Union government allocated Rs 3.27 lakh crore or 6.8% of total expenditure under the gender budget, which includes schemes for the welfare of women. This represents a 19% increase compared to the revised estimate for 2023-24 and is also 5% higher than the interim budget for...

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Akshay Naik 24 July 2024
A recent study conducted by the University of Turku in Finland has revealed that just 30 minutes of exercise can significantly increase the proportion of tumour-killing white blood cells in the bloodstream of breast cancer patients. Published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Immunology,...

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