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NCR Ghaziabad recorded 448 cases of dengue and 795 of chikungunya –Govt.

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New Delhi|HL In NCR Ghaziabad recorded 448 cases of dengue and 795 of chikungunya said Union Minister of State for Health Faggan Singh Kulaste in a written reply to a question in the...

Delhi government directed private hospitals to accept cheques

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New Delhi|HL Government of Delhi issued the circular and instructed hospitals to accept cheques and demand drafts following the demonetization leads inconvenience to the public. The ban on the currency of s.500 and Rs.1000 note...

Video Consultation for patients at AIIMS

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New Delhi|HL Patients can log on to the institute's website and put a request for video consultation, a feature added recently to the online OPD consultation system. Officials told TOI that the dry run of...

Sushma Swaraj at AIIMS for Kidney transplant

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New Delhi|HL Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is on dialysis at AIIMS suffering from kidney failure. Sushma tweeted in morning "Presently, I am on dialysis. I am undergoing tests for a Kidney transplant. Lord Krishna...

Doctors to protest on government policies

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New Delhi|HL Around three lakh Medical professionals from Indian Medical Association (IMA) will protest across the country on Wednesday against some of the government's policies . According to a release by the body, IMA is organising...

Urge to Centre include PCV 13 vaccine under National Immunisation Programme

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New Delhi|HL The Indian Academy of Paediatrics urged the Centre to include PCV 13 vaccine in the National Immunisation Programme as it effectively works against pneumonia that accounts for more infant deaths,...

Is Sugar the new tobacco ? Need of Taxation on Sugar Sweetened Beverages-WHO

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New Delhi|Ekta Dr Jayasurya Navaratne from the WHO South East Asia Office, New Delhi said it is important to design public health and population based strategies to curb the dangers associated with high sugar...

Trump win boosts drug stocks as prospect of price curb recede

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London |HL Pharmaceutical stocks surged in Europe on Wednesday as Republican Donald Trump's U.S. presidential election win led investors to conclude the threat of tough action on drug pricing had receded. News that a California ballot...

AIIMS exempted outpatient clinical charges till November11th

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NewDelhi|Ekta After the historical decision taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, declaring Rs.500 and Rs.1000 currency notes illegal, the statement also forced health institutions to come-up-with some changes. All India Institute of Medical Sciences...

March to save Delhi from the menace of air pollution

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New Delhi| Ekta India Eye IHRO initiated protest to save Delhi from the menace of air pollution on Tuesday at Jantar-Mantar New Delhi. Mass number of people gathered for expressing their solidarity for the environmental...