AIIMS Doctors to MPs & MLAs: Don’t give recommendation letters, instead give better health care to society Feb 15, 2018, Medlarge AIIMS receives approximately two thousands recommendation letters daily for early treatment and admission of patients The doctors from All India Institute of Medical Science are anxious with the recommendation letters from MPs and MLAs for … read more
Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere’ declared the theme for World Health Day Feb 15, 2018, Medlarge Over 800 million people or almost 12 percent of the world’s population spend at least 10 percent of their household budgets on health expenses for themselves, a sick child or other family member The World … read more
Health Ministry nods MCI proposal to amend the Screening Test Regulations 2002, making NEET mandatory to pursue foreign medical course Feb 13, 2018, Medlarge A common national entrance level test ‘National Eligibility cum Entrance Test’ has become now mandatory for admission to all medical courses in the country. Indian students can also pursue medical education abroad and have to … read more
National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority cuts the price of drug-eluting Stents Feb 13, 2018, Medlarge The revised prices will be effective from February 13 as per notification of the national pharmaceutical pricing authority (NPPA) The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, almost after one year of slashing the rates of coronary stents by … read more
Kerala tops and Uttar Pradesh on bottom in NITI Aayog Health Index Report Feb 10, 2018, Medlarge Kerala was followed by Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat in the index report for large states. With Uttar Pradesh on bottom, Rajasthan, Bihar and Odisha are also among the states that performed poorly in the … read more
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launches National Deworming initiative Feb 10, 2018, Medlarge National Deworming initiative to benefit more than 32 crore children Government of India is committed to ensuring high quality healthcare accessible to every child and upto the last mile: J P Nadda Shri J P … read more
AYUSH Ministry pinpoints 804 complaints of misleading Ayurvedic and herbal products advertisements Feb 10, 2018, Medlarge In the absence of any concrete definition of herbal medicines in the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules, the number of agencies claiming themselves herbal producers and advertising of such unauthentic products are increasing. … read more
Fortis healthcare promoters Malvinder and Shivinder Singh quit the board Feb 9, 2018, Medlarge Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh, Fortis Healthcare promoters, have resigned as directors from the company’s board after the Delhi High Court verdict of upholding the3,500 crore arbitral award in favour of Daiichi Sankyo. … read more
Cabinet approves plan for augmenting human resources for health and medical education Feb 8, 2018, Medlarge The plan prescribes 24 new Medical Colleges and 248 Nursing and Midwifery schools with an increase of 10,000 UG seats and 8,058 PG seats to be set up in underserved areas. The Cabinet Committee on … read more
AIIMS Doctors’ march towards parliament to protest NMC Bill stopped at INA Feb 6, 2018, Medlarge Nearly 10,000 doctors from AIIMS staged Dharna at INA while marching towards Parliament to voice their opposition and concerns against National Medical Commission Bill, 2017. Doctors’ march, organized by the Resident Doctors Association (RDA) at … read more
