HEALTH NEWS


Moneylife Digital Team 26 September 2025
India’s health insurance sector has been jolted in recent weeks as the Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI), which represents more than 15,000 hospitals and healthcare institutions, clashed with leading insurers over tariffs, claim settlements and cashless services. At the heart...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 September 2025
Healthcare services across Maharashtra faced widespread disruption on Thursday as nearly 180,000 doctors observed a 24-hour strike to oppose the state government’s decision allowing homeopathic practitioners with a short-term certificate to be registered with the Maharashtra Medical Council...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 September 2025
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (Sun Pharma) has confirmed that the US food and drug administration (US FDA) has classified its Halol facility as 'official action indicated' (OAI), following an inspection conducted between 2nd June and 13 June 2025. The designation indicates that the plant is...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 12 September 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday asked why the blanket ban on firecrackers should apply only to Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) and not the entire country (MC Mehta vs. Union of India).    A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran stressed that...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 September 2025
The goods and services tax (GST) council has announced sweeping reforms in the GST structure that promise to fundamentally transform the accessibility and affordability of healthcare services and insurance products across the nation. The 56th GST council meeting, chaired by Union minister of...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 28 August 2025
The Supreme Court recently opined that a common Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) was required to ensure that trauma care facilities are accessible to citizens across India (Savelife Foundation & Anr v. Union of India & Ors).   A Bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi observed...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 21 August 2025
On July 31, 2025, Divya Unny, a writer-actor-director living in Mumbai, posted this reel about her poor experience with the Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), the Union government scheme providing free hospitalisation, which in Maharashtra, has been integrated with...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 14 August 2025
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday constituted an expert committee to examine the health impact on human beings due to feeding pigeons in public Kabutarkhanas (pigeon feeding zones) and to ascertain whether such feeding can be permitted in a regulated manner. (Pallavi Sachin Patil and Ors v...

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Megan Rose  and   Debbie Cenziper (ProPublica) 12 August 2025
The dispatches from one of India’s most troubled generic drug makers were contrite, filled with far-reaching promises to clean up its factory, stop contamination and send safe medication to Americans counting on the company’s drugs.   “We have started addressing FDA concerns very aggressively...

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Earlier this year, Delhi police’s crime branch raided several locations in Laxmi Nagar, Budh Vihar and Chandni Chowk and uncovered a cache of fake cancer medicines. The counterfeit drugs were neatly packaged and labelled to appear genuine, ready to be sold online to patients desperate for...

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Patricia Callahan (ProPublica) 28 July 2025
The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on a generic drugmaker that was the subject of a ProPublica investigation last year, citing problems with safety tests that delayed the recall of a medicine linked to deaths in the US.   In December, ProPublica reported that a Glenmark...

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Bar  and   Bench 25 July 2025
Private hospitals use patients like ATM machines, the Allahabad High Court said on Thursday while refusing to quash criminal proceedings in a medical negligence case against a doctor (Dr Ashok Kumar Rai v State of UP and another).   Justice Prashant Kumar found that Dr Ashok Kumar Rai, the...

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Medill Investigative Lab/ ProPublica 09 July 2025
Inspectors charged with safeguarding America’s drug supply say they are reeling from deep cuts at the Food and Drug Administration despite promises by the Trump administration to preserve the work of the agency’s investigative force.   Dozens of people who help coordinate travel for complex...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 July 2025
The national human rights commission (NHRC) has taken serious note of the shocking case of a fake cardiologist operating at Mission Hospital at Damoh in Madhya Pradesh (MP), where at least seven patients reportedly died following procedures carried out by the imposter. After completing its...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 09 June 2025
The Bombay High Court recently observed that mobile phones are no longer a luxury but an inevitable necessity, while setting aside a gram panchayat's decision to revoke permission for installation of a telecom tower (Indus Tower Limited and anr v. Gram Panchayat, Tanang and Ors).   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 June 2025
Goa health minister Vishwajit Rane issued a public apology on Monday following intense backlash from the medical community and political opposition over his decision to publicly berate and suspend a senior doctor at Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) during a surprise visit.   The...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 03 June 2025
In September 2024, a 38-year-old woman consulted Narendra Kotwal, director of endocrinology at Paras Health, Panchkula. She reported persistent fatigue, difficulty falling asleep, irregular menstrual cycles, mood disturbances such as irritability and low mood, and had gained 5 kg over six...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 June 2025
The Maharashtra food and drug administration (FDA) has suspended the food business licence of Zepto’s warehouse in Dharavi, Mumbai, citing serious non-compliance with food safety regulations. The action was taken after an inspection revealed multiple violations, including fungal growth on food...

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Prachi Salve  and   Nushaiba Iqbal (IndiaSpend) 30 May 2025
Even as 33% more deaths were registered in 2021 (10.2 million), as compared to 7.6 million registered deaths in 2019, the percentage of medically certified deaths has only risen from 21% in 2019 to 23%, as per the latest data from the Registrar General of India. In absolute terms, medically...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 May 2025
The national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) has upheld an order passed by the state commission awarding Rs25 lakh compensation to the family of a woman who died after allegedly negligent treatment at Cocoon Hospital, operated by Lineage Healthcare Ltd in Jaipur.   In its...

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