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Moneylife Digital Team 11 August 2026
India's public healthcare system faces a serious capacity and affordability challenge, with government hospitals having only 0.79 beds per 1,000 population, while treatment in private hospitals can cost eight to 15 times more than in government facilities, a parliamentary standing committee on...

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What is inside your food packet and, more importantly, what is not clearly indicated on its front, is now before the Supreme Court. A public interest petition (W.P.(C) No. 437/2024), filed by ‘3S and Our Health Society’ in 2024 had sought mandatory front-of-pack warning labels on packaged foods...

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Neha Joshi (Bar  and   Bench) 06 August 2026
The Maharashtra government has issued a food safety notification banning the manufacture and sale of analogue or non-dairy paneer across the State for one year.    The order was issued on July 30 by Food Safety Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe and took effect on the same day.   "The manufacture,...

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For nearly 25 years, Nina Foundation has worked with thousands of people living with spinal cord injuries (SCI), helping them rebuild their lives through rehabilitation, counselling and access to assistive devices. Run entirely by spinal cord injury survivors, the Foundation has supported more...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 July 2026
The national pharmaceutical pricing authority (NPPA) has increased the retail price of anti-rabies immunoglobulin by 6.49% and fixed the retail prices of 39 new drug formulations used to treat hypertension, diabetes, HIV, cardiovascular diseases, eye disorders and other conditions under the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 July 2026
Strand Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), has secured an Indian patent for a blood-based technology designed to detect cancer at an early stage and identify the tissue of origin using a simple blood sample.   In a release, the Bengaluru-based genomics and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 June 2026
The Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) has prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of 16 fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs across India, citing a lack of therapeutic justification and concerns that the potential risks associated with these formulations outweigh their...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 June 2026
The Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) has amended the Drugs Rules, 1945, removing a long-standing exemption that allowed cough syrups and certain other syrup formulations to be sold in small villages without compliance with specific retail licensing requirements.   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 June 2026
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has initiated action against several food business operators (FBOs) for allegedly using misleading brand names, trade names and product claims that could deceive consumers about the nature, quality or health benefits of their...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 June 2026
The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has launched a nationwide centralised online patient feedback system that will allow beneficiaries to rate healthcare services at its hospitals and dispensaries in real time, the Union ministry of labour and employment announced on...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 28 May 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the right to trauma care is an integral part of the right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution (Savelife Foundation vs. Union of India).   A bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Atul S Chandurkar made the observation while issuing a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 May 2026
The central drugs standard control organisation (CDSCO) has clarified that injectable preparations do not qualify as cosmetics under Indian law and warned that cosmetics cannot be used for medical treatment purposes or administered through injections. The notice comes amid growing concerns...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 21 May 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday approved a nationwide framework prescribing minimum standards for Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and critical care services (Asit Baran Mondal & Anr. v. Dr. Rita Sinha & Ors.).    A Bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahadevan said the country was in a...

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Ritika Jain (IndiaSpend) 08 May 2026
The Supreme Court, on April 30, disagreed with an appeal by a medical board, and permitted a 15-year-old girl in her third trimester to terminate her pregnancy. This was the second such case this year alone where the Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has argued for the...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 05 May 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday held that medical negligence cases for compensation can be pursued against legal heirs of the doctor after the doctor's death in order to deal with damages that may have to be paid to the complainant from the doctor’s estate (Kumud Lall v. Suresh Chandra Roy &...

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Tanvi Deshpande 04 May 2026
Summer is under way and heat waves are being reported in many parts of the country already. The 16th Finance Commission has recommended that heatwaves be notified as national disasters. The move could unlock central funding to states battling heatwaves and also make way for compensation for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 April 2026
India’s intensifying heatwave showed no signs of easing as the highest maximum temperature of 46.9°C was recorded in Akola in Vidarbha on Sunday, according to a post by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on X. The weather agency says heatwave conditions were observed at a few places in...

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Ritu Yadav (Bar  and   Bench) 24 April 2026
The Supreme Court recently directed States and Union Territories to prepare time-bound action plans to implement guidelines on minimum standards for Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in hospitals (Asit Baran Mondal & Anr. vs Dr Rita Sinha & Ors.).   In an order passed on April 20, a Bench of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 April 2026
In a significant consumer protection move, the food and drug administration (FDA) in Maharashtra has directed all food establishments across the state to clearly disclose the use of paneer or cheese analogues in their dishes from 1st May.   The directive applies to restaurants, hotels,...

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Tanvi Deshpande (IndiaSpend) 13 April 2026
Of course, the heat is increasing. My eyes burn,” said Sangeeta Sonawane in Mumbai’s Borivali on a hot April day. Sonawane sets up her stall on the street, near the local railway station, at 10 a.m. and spends 12 hours selling vegetables. In the peak afternoon, she uses a piece of thermocol or...

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