Category: health

Though Natco’s generic could cut costs from Roche’s rate of $7,150 to less than $185, activists call for Centre to invoke the Patents Act and ensure affordable access for all spinal muscular atrophy patients

Gynaecologists practising in West Bengal cite prolonged exposure to high temperatures, poor air quality, and limited access to clean water among reasons behind reproductive health challenges in women

The study, as per its modelling estimates, found that patients with undiagnosed diabetes represented 21.1% of all COVID-19 hospitalisations and 30.5% of all COVID-19 deaths across low- and middle income eight countries

Developed in partnership with Polyvac Institute of Vietnam, IIL launched Mabella vaccine as part of the 25th celebrations of Human Biologicals Institute 

Which illnesses are attributed to air pollution? How does Maharashtra propose to monitor illnesses? How can health data help shape climate action plans?

Released by NGO SaveLife Foundation, report also sheds light on dearth of trained staff, infrastructure, consumables in district hospitals and underlines how absence of designated trauma centres and surgeons in India leads to delayed clinical decisions

“Antibiotics should not be used unless there is clinical suspicion of bacterial infection.”