Health ministry to launch pneumonia vaccine on May 13 savita5 May 2017 10:52 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Union government will launch pneumonia vaccine, under its universal immunisation programme, in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh on...
Odisha to implement National health protection scheme next year savita5 May 2017 9:47 AM ISTBhubaneswar: The National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) is likely to be implemented in Odisha next year.State Chief Secretary A P Padhi a decision...
Post-delivery, women in Telangana to get KCR kits savita5 May 2017 9:27 AM ISTHyderabad : The Telangana government would provide a kit, consisting of necessary items like soaps, shampoos and towels, to poor women soon after...
Govt turns to retired doctors to meet shortage in Haryana Meghna A Singhania5 May 2017 9:22 AM ISTGurugram: Failing to find qualified medical practitioners to fill up its vacant specialist positions in government hospitals, the Haryana State is now...
UP mulls Walk-in Appointment of Doctors, doing away with Public Service Commission savita4 May 2017 11:58 AM ISTAllahabad: A proposal was afoot to recruit government doctors in UP through "walk-in interviews", doing away with the earlier process of selection...
AIIMS board to examine HIV Positive destitute women for abortion: SC savita4 May 2017 11:48 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Supreme Court directed a medical board of AIIMS, New Delhi to examine a 35-year-old HIV-positive destitute woman, who was raped on the...
Training programme for medical officers savita4 May 2017 9:00 AM ISTThe Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Shri J.P. Nadda  recently inaugurated the first-ever induction training programme for the newly...
Right to refuse medical treatment: SC asks Ministry of Health to take call savita3 May 2017 12:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: Terming as "sensitive" the issue of right to have a 'living will' to refuse life support in the last days of an ailing person, the Supreme...
Delhi High Court pulls up Max Hospital in a Kidney Transplant Case savita2 May 2017 1:14 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Delhi High Court directed Max Super Speciality Hospital to immediately grant permission to a woman for donating one of her kidneys to...
National strategic plan to eliminate AIDS in next 7 years : Nadda savita1 May 2017 9:42 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Centre announced that it will develop a national strategic plan over the next seven years to eliminate AIDS from the country. The...
You can withdraw EPF for treatment without doctor certificate savita29 April 2017 3:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: Over four crore members of the retirement fund body EPFO can now withdraw funds from their EPF account for treatment of illness and...
Writing brand name of drugs not illegal : Dr. Girish Tyagi, Delhi Medical Council Meghna A Singhania29 April 2017 2:02 PM ISTThere has been a lot of apprehension and confusion regarding the prescription practices after the recent notification of MCI that doctors should write...
