Risk to children from contaminated oral polio vaccine found in India is ‘minimal’, says WHO

Government officials confirmed that some children in Maharashtra, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh were administered the contaminated vaccine.

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· Oct 02, 2018 · 07:48 am

Health ministry orders investigation after some batches of oral polio vaccine found contaminated

Traces of polio type II virus, which has been eradicated worldwide, were found in some batches of oral polio vaccine manufactured by a company in Ghaziabad.

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· Sep 29, 2018 · 08:14 pm

Health ministry releases draft rules to regulate online sale of medicines

Online pharmacies will have to register with the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, according to the draft rules.

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· Sep 03, 2018 · 08:06 pm

UP’s Musahars face such intense discrimination that even healthcare is denied to them

Untouchability was outlawed in 1950, but discrimination and segregation of the scheduled caste remains pervasive.

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· Jul 01, 2018 · 07:30 pm

Global organisation The Elders praises Delhi government’s health initiatives

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the organisation’s head, said a delegation will visit India in September.

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· Jun 17, 2018 · 03:05 pm

Delhi: Hospitals must not hold patients’ bodies hostage just for bills, suggests draft policy

This doesn’t mean the bills will be waived, the proposal said, adding that hospitals can take legal action against patients’ kin if they do not pay up later.

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· May 29, 2018 · 11:55 am

There may be five types of diabetes that need different forms of treatment, suggests Lancet study

According to WHO, India has about 70 million diabetics and may soon become the diabetes capital of the world.

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· Mar 02, 2018 · 12:51 pm

Bhupendra Singh, chairperson of drug price regulator, transferred

Under him, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority had highlighted how private hospitals made huge profits by inflating bills for medicines.

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· Mar 01, 2018 · 03:17 pm

Uttar Pradesh: Woman delivers baby outside hospital that turned her away for not having Aadhaar

A doctor at the Jaunpur hospital allegedly rebuked the woman’s family before sending them away.

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· Jan 30, 2018 · 01:18 pm

Drug pricing regulator asks Fortis for copies of bills for allegedly overcharging Gurugram patient

The hospital charged Jayant Singh nearly Rs 16 lakh for the treatment of his seven-year-old daughter, who died of dengue.

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· Nov 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

Nine newborns die at Ahmedabad civil hospital in 24 hours, Gujarat sets up investigation panel

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani met senior health officials on Sunday to review the situation.

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· Oct 29, 2017 · 06:37 pm

In the news: Drug-resistant malaria strain in South East Asia, a fatal weight-loss surgery and more

A quick wrap of health and medical news from the past week.

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· Sep 25, 2017 · 05:30 am