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Moneylife Digital Team 16 August 2024
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for a 24-hour nationwide withdrawal of non-emergency services from 6am on Saturday (17th August) to protest against the alleged rape and murder of a trainee woman doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata and the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 August 2024
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) recently ordered the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, Delhi and the head of its cardiac department to pay Rs65 lakh as compensation to the family of a 62-year-old man who was left partially paralysed after an...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 06 August 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday told Indian Medical Association (IMA) President Dr. RV Asokan that he has to publish apologies in all prominent newspapers for his statements criticising the Supreme Court (Indian Medical Association and anr vs Union of India and ors).   A Bench of Justices Hima...

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Prachi Salve (IndiaSpend) 05 August 2024
Unable to eat, and depending solely on oral rehydration solutions, Ahmed* (40) spent the last 15 days of his life hoping to get an endoscopic procedure at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, 350 km away from his hometown in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh. He died on July...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 29 July 2024
The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered Patanjali Ayurved and its promoters, including Baba Ramdev, to take down claims that allopathy doctors were responsible for the deaths of lakhs of people during the COVID-19 pandemic, while promoting Patanjali's Coronil as a "cure" (Resident Doctors...

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Nileena Suresh (IndiaSpend) 25 July 2024
This year, the Union government allocated Rs 3.27 lakh crore or 6.8% of total expenditure under the gender budget, which includes schemes for the welfare of women. This represents a 19% increase compared to the revised estimate for 2023-24 and is also 5% higher than the interim budget for...

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Akshay Naik 24 July 2024
A recent study conducted by the University of Turku in Finland has revealed that just 30 minutes of exercise can significantly increase the proportion of tumour-killing white blood cells in the bloodstream of breast cancer patients. Published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Immunology,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 July 2024
The Union government on Tuesday slashed customs duties on a range of products, including gold, silver, critical minerals, mobile phones and other electronic items, to cut input costs, increase value addition, promote export competitiveness and boost domestic manufacturing. In the Budget speech,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2024
Holding two doctors, including one cardiologist, from Kolkata-based Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan, responsible for medical negligence in treating the patient who died of cardiac arrest, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed these two doctors to pay Rs10...

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Aishwarya Tripathi (IndiaSpend) 28 June 2024
Savita Devi associates rain with death.   Last September, within a span of 10 days, the 30-year-old farmer and her husband Raju (he uses one name) belonging to the Baiga community, a scheduled tribe, lost five of their seven children to malaria as the southwest monsoons pounded their village,...

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Aishwarya Tripathi (IndiaSpend) 26 June 2024
Jab machhar sab khoon pi lela, jab beemari ho jala, tab dawai chidki ka baa? [What is the use of spraying insecticide after the mosquitoes are done feeding on our blood and giving us the disease?].” Eighteen-year-old Seeta Devi’s voice cuts through the heat, as she talks from the doorway of her...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2024
A recent study published in The International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine has raised significant safety concerns about Rotavac, the rotavirus vaccine that is included in the government’s immunisation program and is widely used in India. The study found that Rotavac increases the risk...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 June 2024
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has agreed to pay US$700mn (million) to settle an investigation by 42 US states and Washington DC into its marketing of baby powder and other talc-based products blamed for allegedly causing cancer, says a news report.   According to a report from Reuters, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 June 2024
Upholding an order passed by the state commission, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed Mohali-based Max Super Speciality Hospital and three doctors, including a senior cardiologist, to pay a compensation of Rs25 lakh with an interest of 8% to the family for...

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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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