'Healthcare is not an industry.''The government is only encouraging insurance as they are not able to provide healthcare to people.''Opening new medical colleges is not what is needed.''You have to......
The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global......
Amid an increase in the number of measles cases, the Centre has asked states to consider administering one additional dose of measles and rubella vaccines to all children, aged 9 months to 5 years,......
What do we know about India's devastating second wave, and can we assign responsibility for it? ponders Mihir S Sharma. IMAGE: A COVID-19 patient checks his oxygen level at the Covid Care Centre......
For vaccination, online registration is mandatory.Thereafter, eligible beneficiaries will be informed on their registered mobile number about the nearest vaccination facility, and the date and time......
Health economist and advisor to the High-Level Expert Group on Universal Health Care, S Selvaraj says that tackling lack of doctors in India will take time to sort out, but providing free......
Budget 2013-14 is likely to provide for universal access to essential medicines, according to sources. However, for this, allocations to medicines need to be doubled. According to the funding......
The National Health Assurance Mission aims to provide free drugs, diagnostic services and insurance for serious ailments for India's 1.2 billion people. Image: A drastic cutback of an ambitious......
Experts are fast realising that mid-life death and disability caused by cardiovascular diseases -- CVDs -- have disastrous consequences on families who lose wage earners, resulting in loss in......
India and China are gearing up for a showdown, one that might go all the way to the World Trade Organization, over India's increasing reluctance to allow Chinese imports to flood the Indian market.......