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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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Moneylife Digital Team 01 April 2026
The Indian government has issued a strong warning against the misuse of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) drugs, widely used for treating type-2 diabetes and obesity, while stepping up regulatory action to curb their unauthorised sale across India.   A detailed statement...

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India’s healthcare system has made significant advances in specialised and tertiary care. However, for individuals living with spinal cord injuries, medical intervention is only the beginning of a far more complex and often unsupported journey.   A spinal cord injury is not just a clinical...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 March 2026
India's drug regulator, central drugs standard control organisation (CDSCO), has prohibited all direct and indirect promotional activities for glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist drugs, including celebrity-fronted obesity awareness campaigns, warning that surrogate advertising of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 March 2026
The directorate of enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached 50 immovable properties worth ₹29.76 crore in connection with an alleged illegal surrogacy and child trafficking racket operated by a Hyderabad-based doctor through Universal Srusthi Fertility & Research Centre.   In a release,...

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Ritwik Choudhury  and   Ritu Yadav (Bar  and   Bench) 11 March 2026
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed plea for passive euthanasia (withdrawal of life support) of 31-year-old Harish Rana, who has remained in a permanent vegetative state since 2013 after falling from a building (Harish Rana v. Union of India).   A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and KV...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 10 March 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Central government to frame a policy to compensate those who suffer from serious adverse effects from COVID-19 vaccine.   A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta added that the compensation must be provided on a no-fault basis.    "Union of...

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Ayman Khan (IndiaSpend) 06 March 2026
India’s increasing demographic of the elderly needs long-term care, daily support and palliative services. While national policies emphasise care at home, government data show that access to such services remains limited.   With older adults projected to account for nearly 20% of India’s...

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Menaka Rao (IndiaSpend) 02 March 2026
On August 19, 2025, the government claimed that the annual blood requirement for the county was met the previous year. This, despite several reports and studies on shortage of blood in various parts of the country and significant state, and intra-state variations in the availability of...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 02 February 2026
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced a Rs 1.06 lakh crore health budget for 2026-27, a 9% increase from the current financial year. Yet persistent gaps in utilisation, staffing and quality suggest higher allocations alone cannot fix India's public health crisis.   Despite a...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 30 January 2026
The Supreme Court has held that administering stem cell therapy for the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder outside an approved and monitored clinical trial is unethical and amounts to medical malpractice.    A Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan ruled that such treatment is not...

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Sanskrita Bharadwaj (IndiaSpend) 19 January 2026
For 15 years, Binita and Mridul Buragohain built their pig farm in Betbari village, starting with two pigs and slowly expanding to a herd of 75. In October last year, one of their pigs fell ill, and five others died soon after from African Swine Fever (ASF). The rest had to be culled to prevent...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on a plea seeking permission for passive euthanasia for Harish Rana, a man who has been in a permanent vegetative state for more than 13 years following a severe traumatic brain injury.   A bench of justice JB Pardiwala and justice KV...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 December 2025
The Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) has banned all oral formulations of the painkiller nimesulide containing more than 100mg in immediate-release dosage form, citing risks to human health and the availability of safer alternatives.   In a notification issued on 29 December...

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Arna Chatterjee (Bar  and   Bench) 31 December 2025
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has upheld a State consumer forum's decision to hold a Ludhiana-based hospital, its surgeon and pathologists at a Ludhiana medical college liable for medical negligence, over the performance of a radical facial cancer surgery on a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 December 2025
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended lives and healthcare systems across the country, the Supreme Court has delivered long-awaited relief to families of doctors who died while treating patients during the crisis, ruling that their kin cannot be denied insurance benefits merely because...

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Anuj Behal (IndiaSpend) 28 November 2025
As winter deepens, New Delhi is once again losing the fight for breath. Every winter, Delhi continues to choke under hazardous air—and this year is no exception. On November 18, the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB’s) 24-hour bulletin recorded a city-wide Air Quality Index (AQI) of 374,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 November 2025
A landmark three-paper series published in The Lancet  has issued one of the strongest global warnings yet about the public health dangers posed by ultra-processed food products (UPFs). Authored by 43 international experts, including India’s Dr Arun Gupta, paediatrician and senior public health...

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Ummar Jamal (Bar  and   Bench) 28 October 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday emphasised that society must stand with medical professionals, particularly those who sacrificed their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.   The Bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan was hearing a petition moved by the kin of medical professionals who...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 October 2025
The food safety and standards authority of India (FSSAI) has directed all states and Union Territories (UTs) to ensure the removal of the term ‘ORS’ (oral rehydration salts) from all food and beverage products being marketed across the country. The move is aimed at preventing the misleading use...

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