The Union Health Ministry on Saturday notified the Revised Schedule M guidelines under which pharmaceutical companies will have to intimate the licensing authority about recalling a drug and also report product defects,...
Few days after Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena had ordered a CBI probe into allegations of spurious drugs being supplied in Delhi Govt Hospitals, a fresh trouble erupted for the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government over the...
The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has said that the blood center across the nation can charge only processing costs as blood is not for sale. The DCGI has banned all charges except supply and processing...
Continuing an increasing trend, India on Thursday reported 760 fresh infections in the past 24 hours. However, the active cases have dipped to 4,423. In the same time span, the nation has reported two deaths –...
More than one crore people have been screened for sickle cell disease under the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission since its launch by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July last year. The programme aims to...
The criteria for admitting a patient to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) should be based on organ failure and need for organ support or in anticipation of deterioration in the medical condition, said the new guidelines for ICU...
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said that pandemic preparedness and disease surveillance anchored in strong health are crucial to ensure better protection from major disease outbreaks. He was speaking...
India on Tuesday recorded 573 fresh cases of Covid infections and the number of active cases of the infection has increased to 4,565 in the last 24 hrs. Two new fatalities due to the disease — one each in Karnataka and...
India on Monday logged 636 fresh Covid 19 infections in the last 24 hrs, while the number of active cases of the infection have increased to 4,394 in the country. In the same time span, three new fatalities due to...
A body of resident doctors’ associations has appealed to the health ministry for the timely recruitment of regular faculties in medical colleges and associated hospitals across the country. In a letter addressed to...
