 | Petition against e-pharmas for ‘violating norms’The government in February pulled up at least 20 companies, including Tata-1mg, Flipkart, Apollo, PharmEasy |
 | Karnataka sets aside funds to avoid medical shortageThe annual tender is one of the largest tenders announced by the health department every year. It includes the supply of medicines, medical devices, surgical, sutures, antidotes, blood products etc. |
 | Prescribe generic medicines or face action: Centre tells doctors at central govt hospitalsThe order asked the authorities to ensure that visits of medical representatives to hospital premises are completely curtailed. |
 | Tamil Nadu: Unani practitioner kills stray dog using air pistol, arrestedAccording to police, Prabhu Palaniappan, an eyewitness, was feeding dogs near his residence late on Friday when he heard a stray dog whining in pain. |
 | Consider plea of alternative med practitioners to stop police interference in their practice: Madras HCHowever, in Tamil Nadu, the police are interfering with their practice and the regular visits by policemen are causing apprehension in the minds of the patients. |
 | Essential medicines to get costlier by 12% from April 1; prices already rose by 20%, say consumersThe Centre has allowed drug manufacturers to increase ceiling prices of around 900 scheduled drugs from April 1, in line with the change in the annual wholesale price index (WPI) |
 | Telangana Health Minister protests hike in prices of lifesaving drugsHe said that the only work of the BJP-led Union government was to impose burdens on the poor and troubling them. |
 | 80 per cent health staff unvaccinated for Hepatitis B in Tamil NaduDPH says figure is based on utilisation of vaccine procured for health care workers and not on performance report |
 | Saveetha Dental College achieves unique featSaveetha Dental College has emerged the highest publishing dental institution in the world, dethroning Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine from the top spot. |
 | Emergency medicine summit beginsThe summit is being organised with the support of the Union Health Ministry, Niti Ayog, WHO, Tata Trust, All India Institute of Medical Science, and experts in emergency medicine across the state. |
 | Jan Aushadhi Kendras, right dose for poor patientsThese kendras have helped them by making medicines affordable |
 | Medicos in Palakkad adopt three settlements in Atttappadi to study tribal issuesThe group of first-year students of Palakkad Medical College have adopted three tribal settlements in Attappadi -- Varagampadi, Elachivazhi and Palur -- under the Community Medicine Project. |
 | NMA celebrates 30th anniversary in grandeurThe association felicitated the best Ayurvedic doctors as well as the students with awards. |
 | Marking time for the next scientific disruptionScience may have turned conservative because much of current work is conducted by very large teams, distributed across continents. |
 | TN to probe Siddha ‘quack’ and YouTuber ‘Dr Sharmika’ for misinformationMed Board gives YouTuber 15 days to explain comments on junk food causing dengue, palm fruit enhancing breasts |
 | Many under 19s still vulnerable to Covid: StudyThe study published in eClinicalMedicine stated seroprevalence estimates were higher in those children who were living in underprivileged countries and who belonged to a minority ethnic background. |
 | Bihar hooch tragedy case: 'Mastermind' among five arrested in SaranThe mastermind of the hooch tragedy that claimed 38 lives, has been arrested. Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has drawn flak, from adversaries and allies, over its refusal to pay compensation. |
 | Half of COVID survivors experience lingering symptoms six months after recovery: StudyThe study reviewed 57 reports that included data from 250,351 unvaccinated adults and children who were diagnosed with COVID-19 from December 2019 through March 2021. |
 | Five gym owners held for selling banned medicines in UP's MuzaffarnagarHe said they had received complaints that the gyms were involved in supplying "dangerous medicines" at high price to its customers for bodybuilding. |
 | Health Ministry's telemedicine service platform 'eSanjeevani' completes 3 lakh consultationsThe platform supports two types of telemedicine services -- doctor-to-doctor through eSanjeevani and patient-to-doctor through eSanjeevani OPD. |
