File FIR within six hours of violence: Government to hospitalsIn response to protests following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata, the Union Health Ministry announced that heads of hea...
Govt plans crackdown on lookalike drug brandsAccording to people in the know, the government is likely to consider as valid only the brand names which were approved first by the regula...
NEET-PG-21: DGHS tells SC no further rounds of counselling can be conducted, software closedIn an affidavit filed on a batch of petitions seeking a special stray round of counselling for the 1,456 vacant seats, the DGHS said the NE...
NEET-PG: SC cancels AIQ mop-up round counselling over anomalies in 146 fresh seatsThe bench directed the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) to invite options from students within 24 hours and complete the process ...
HCQ, another drug dropped from Covid treatment protocolThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has removed usage of popular drugs Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) from the approved ...
ICMR removes Ivermectin and Hydroxycholoquine (HCQ) from Covid-19 treatment guidelinesExperts at India's health research body did not find enough evidence for Ivermectin and HCQ of a potential therapeutic effect against Covid...
HCQ out of DGHS Covid care list, but still present in ICMR protocolIndian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), the country’s leading health research body, however, has not yet revised its clinical guidance ...
Vivimed Labs gets DGHS nod to manufacture, market Favipiravir tablets in IndiaFavipiravir is one of the leading oral anti-viral treatment approved in various countries for the potential treatment of patients with mild...
COVID-19: Government warns against use of N-95 masks with valved respiratorsThe Director General of Health Services (DGHS) in the Ministry of Health, in a letter to the Principal Secretaries of health and medical ed...
Max group claims 'stay' on licence cancellation orderA week ago, the hospital group had filed an appeal in the the Court of the Financial Commissioner against the cancellation of the licence o...
Under new rules, less than 50% private MBBS seats filledAs the third round of counselling comes to an end on Thursday, more than 50% of MBBS seats and almost 85% of dental seats in these institut...
Supreme Court asks Centre to take a relook at nod to medical collegesThe SC asked the govt to re-evaluate the recommendations of the MCI, the hearing committee, the DGHS and the oversight committee and grant ...
LG Najeeb Jung strips senior officer who piloted Mohalla Clinic of DGHS chargeSeem, who took over as the DGHS October last and was piloting the AAP government's ambitious 'Mohalla Clinic' project, was relieved of his ...
Haryana starts taking Maggi samples for testingThe Health Department officials in Haryana today started lifting samples of Maggi noodles randomly from across the state for laboratory tes...
States told to keep cost of swine flu test below Rs 2,500: DGHS"There is no cause for panic. The situation is totally under control. There is no dearth of funds or vaccines to tackle swine flu," DGHS Dr...
- Clinical trials claimed almost 1,600 lives in 3 yrs: Directorate General of Health Services
Nearly 1,600 people died during clinical trials of drugs conducted by various multinational pharmaceutical companies.
- DGH comment on RIL inflating capex surprising: RNRL
RNRL press statement says that DGH confirming 31 mmscmd production against the max capacity at 80 mmscmd clears the company's stand. Video:...