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Moneylife Digital Team 31 May 2024
To help ease the pain of running from pillar to post for health insurance policyholders, the insurance regulatory and development authority of India (IRDAI) has asked insurance companies to strive to achieve 100% cashless claim settlement in a time-bound manner. Insurers are asked to decide on...

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A cluster of applications filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, in the health ministry in 2022, regarding information on COVID-19 vaccine management and continuously denied by its central public information officer (CPIO) and first appellate authority (FAA) using exemption clauses of...

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Sushmita (IndiaSpend) 27 May 2024
On April 11, 2024, 42-year-old Rudolf Kujur arrived in Ranchi, 131 km from his village Bendora in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, with his day-old baby boy in one hand and a chatai (mat) in another. Two government hospitals in Gumla and Lohardaga said they were unable to handle post-birth...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 May 2024
The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked drug regulators in all states and Union Territories to withdraw AstraZeneca's anti-cancer drug Olaparib tablets for treatment in patients who have received three or more prior lines of chemotherapy.   In the order last week, DCGI has asked...

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Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 20 May 2024
Suvarna Kamble (45), an accredited social health activist (ASHA) from Palghar, remembers a time when she brought a woman from Dhansar, a village in Palghar block of Palghar district, to a family planning clinic in Virar for a sterilisation procedure.   At 11 pm one night, the woman had called...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 May 2024
Nearly a third of participants who took Covaxin, the COVID-19 vaccine made by Bharat Biotech Ltd, reported adverse events of special interest (AESI), with women and those with allergies at higher risk, says a new study published on SpringerLink. The study conducted by Sankha Shubhra Chakrabarti...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 May 2024
Soon after the European Medicines Agency issued a notice that AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine (now known as Vaxzevria) is no longer authorised for use, the pharmaceuticals company, citing a surplus of available updated vaccines that target new variants of coronavirus, has decided to withdraw the...

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Meera Emmanuel (Bar  and   Bench) 07 May 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday grilled the Central government on why it asked AYUSH authorities in states and union territories not to take any action against misleading advertisements under Rule 170 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 (Indian Medical Association & Anr v. Union of India and...

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Akshay Naik 03 May 2024
A new book, The Psychology of Memory, explores the fascinating science of memory, offering practical tips to improve recall. Authors Dr Megan Sumeracki and Dr Althea Need Kaminske, who are US –based psychologists, emphasise that losing everyday items such as keys is a common experience and that...

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Meera Emmanuel (Bar  and   Bench) 30 April 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday slammed the Uttarakhand State Licensing Authority (SLA) for its failure to take inaction against Patanjali Ayurved for years together.   A Bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said that the SLA appears to have chosen to act against Patanjali's...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 April 2024
While tendering an unconditional and unqualified apology before the Supreme Court, the Uttarakhand state licensing authority (SLA) says it has suspended the manufacturing licenscs of 14 products of Patanjali Ayurved Ltd and Divya Pharmacy. It also filed a criminal complaint against Patanjali...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 18 April 2024
Aditya Shinde (name changed) spent upwards of Rs 7 lakh on the health expenses of his grandmother, who was diagnosed with renal failure in late 2019 and died in April 2021.   “The medical costs have definitely gone up,” Shinde, who lost his father in 2013 to the same condition, says. “The...

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Akshay Naik 17 April 2024
There is a long-standing debate on consumption of eggs and heart health. But findings from a new study indicate that consuming a dozen fortified eggs on a weekly basis does not significantly affect cholesterol levels, compared to a diet with minimal egg intake (two or fewer eggs...

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Majority of Indians (74 per cent) are in favour of the government creating mandatory BIS standard (Bureau of Indian Standards) for hospital bills, which requires all charges for consumables, services, facilities, and others to be itemised, a new report said on Sunday.   According to the...

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Often, hospital authorities do not make healthcare documents of patients accessible to them; although it is mandatory under the medical council of India rules, besides under the Right to Information Act (RTI).   In fact, under the RTI Act, central information commissioner (CIC) Prof...

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Akshay Naik 28 March 2024
When preparing a child’s lunch or choosing a nutritious afternoon snack, one only needs to look at three varieties of fruit snacks - dried fruit, fruit puree and canned fruit with juice. These align with the most recent recommendations for high-nutrition snacks established by US federal dietary...

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Menaka Rao (IndiaSpend.org) 27 March 2024
India has hit the elimination target for Kala-azar, a parasitic disease in 2024, but a drug used to treat the skin manifestation of Kala-azar is being linked to eye problems, including blindness.   Miltefosine is given to patients with Post-Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis (PKDL), which...

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In 2017, Frontiers in Psychiatry published ‘An Update Overview on Brain Imaging Studies of Internet Gaming Disorder’ as part of their research on IGD or Internet Gaming Disorder.   The conclusion was startling:   “There is an emerging evidence that IGD is associated with...

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Every eighth person or more than one billion people worldwide are living with obesity, a precursor to several diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, revealed a study released by the Lancet on Friday.   The study showed that in the last three decades obesity among adults...

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IANS 01 February 2024
Union finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that the government will encourage vaccination for girls in the age group of 9 to 14 years for prevention of cervical cancer.   "Our government will encourage vaccination for girls from the age group of 9 to 14 years for...

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