'Don't fall ill': Sri Lanka doctors warn of drug shortageSri Lankan doctors are giving advice to the patients to not fall ill or get into accidents as the country's economic crisis leaves its heal...
13 Jul, 2022, 02.57 PM IST
'Don't fall ill': Sri Lanka doctors warn of drug shortageThe South Asian island nation lacks the money to pay for basic imports like fuel and food, and medicine is also running out. Such troubles ...
13 Jul, 2022, 11.58 AM IST
'Don't fall ill': Sri Lanka doctors warn of drug shortageThe South Asian island nation lacks the money to pay for basic imports like fuel and food, and medicine is also running out. Such troubles ...
13 Jul, 2022, 07.44 AM IST
GoM to look into GST rates on Covid vaccines, drugs, devicesStates including Odisha, Gujarat, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Kerala and West Bengal sought full GST waiver for Covid vaccines, drugs and related...
29 May, 2021, 07.40 AM IST
India’s education system needs to be far better than it is today: Bill GatesBill Gates is known to take an active interest in sanitation, so what does he think of the Swachh Bharat programme? “Well, building toilets...
17 Nov, 2017, 11.57 AM IST
The epidemic you don’t know aboutThe national health policy had aimed at eliminating filariasis by 2015. The deadline was extended to 2017 and now has been shifted to 2020.
17 Nov, 2017, 11.32 AM IST
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's ties with the government are on a firm footing despite some recent concernsDevelopment professionals said the biggest value that the foundation’s partnerships have brought is capacity building.
13 May, 2017, 08.59 AM IST
Maldives, Lanka eliminate lymphatic filariasis, India yet to achieve featMaldives and Sri Lanka demonstrates countries and the Region to eliminate all tropical diseases, which mar the lives of people, said Poonam...
03 Jun, 2016, 10.49 PM IST
Abhishek Bachchan to promote campaign on tropical diseasesAbhishek’s appointment makes him the third in a family of actors, after Amitabh and Aishwarya to endorse health-related initiatives.
11 Feb, 2014, 05.00 AM IST
Why Kejriwal should understand that it pays to be patientDalliance between Congress and Arvind Kejriwal’s party augured well precisely because it was not high morality: the two planned to use each...
26 Jan, 2014, 08.14 AM IST
It costs less than Rs 30 for an entire year to treat a person: Dr Neeraj MistryNeglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) are the second largest disease burden in developing and under developed countries in the world.
24 Oct, 2013, 03.54 PM IST
- Glaxo to step up capacity for elephantiasis drug production
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will increase its capacity to make a drug for the treatment of elephantiasis at its manufacturing f...
15 Oct, 2010, 02.33 AM IST
BT may curb roundworm infection, says studyBT, or soil bacteria could help battle roundworm infection worldwide, says a study.
09 Mar, 2010, 06.53 AM IST