India is battling a full-blown health crisis and the above-mentioned conclusion by a Lancet study should be treated as a warning to our policymakers. Research reveals a dangerously rapid epidemiological transition and a rising burden of non-communicable diseases. Until the federal government in India takes health as seriously as many other nations do, India will …
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Doctors reacted with anger after a government minister suggested they only work forty hours a week. India’s shortage of doctors often makes their job harder, outraged medicos suggested as they claim to work often double that figure. One doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) stated that doctors sometimes work between 100 and …
Earlier this year a draft national policy was approved which could have seen the allocation of a potential 100 crore to the research and treatment of rare diseases. Abruptly, the Centre has withdrawn the policy. Rare diseases — despite the uncommonness that the name infers — cumulatively affect around 350 million people. This figure includes …
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Immunisation rates in Uttarakhand fell by more than thirty percentage points in two years. Now the state is using stringent measures to drive immunisation rates upwards. Immunisation rates in the state fell to just 61.32 percent of children aged nine to eleven months in 2017-18. This was down from 99.3 percent coverage in the 2015-16 …
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US have issued an advisory message to pregnant women. This message states that travel to India is ill-advised as Zika is “endemic” in the country. The situation with the Zika virus — though seeming dire across October and November — has been deemed by the …
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India gained 2.9 million cases of dementia in 26 years. This is according to recent research published in The Lancet, which revealed that the number of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia increased from 20.2 million in 1990 to 43.8 million globally in 2016. India’s dementia burden resulted in an estimated …
Currently, Indian patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease struggle to access some of the more modern methods of treating the condition. This may soon change following the introduction of the drug Apomorphine, a treatment used commonly in Western nations. Current treatments in India include the use of oral treatments, which come with the disadvantage of having …
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A ban on online medicines sales has been stayed by the Madras High Court until it makes a final decision on the matter. This means consumers can still buy medicines online – at least for now. E-pharmacy sales were subject to a blanket ban by the Court on Monday, December 17th. The Court’s ruling followed …
The Centre is under pressure to ban drugs that are still being sold in India despite being flagged a decade ago as being potentially unsafe. The Delhi High Court has given the Centre until January 4th to respond to a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Dinesh Thakur in October. Thakur is a public health …
Court rulings have halted the e-pharmacy market in India – at least until January. Online sales of medicines are now subject to a blanket ban until clearer regulations are set forth by the Centre, the Madras High Court ordered Monday, December 17th. The Centre has time only until January 31st to issue these guidelines. The …
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