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After Kota and Bikaner, 8 women in Jodhpur suffer post-caesarean complicationsEight women in Jodhpur have suffered severe health issues, including kidney failure, after caesarean sections at the district hospital. Two...- Private hospitals drive surge in C-section deliveries across IndiaCaesarean sections are now the norm in Indian private hospitals, accounting for over half of all births. Eastern and southern states show p...
- Lancet study draws attention to rising C-section deliveries, calls for regulation in private healthcareA new study reveals a significant surge in caesarean deliveries in India, exceeding WHO recommendations, and calls for policy interventions...
- Six deliveries per thousand are stillbirths in India, highest rate in northern states: StudyA recent analysis of Indian health data reveals a stillbirth rate of 6.548 per 1,000 births in 2020, with urban areas showing higher rates ...
- Suniel Shetty gets lambasted online for praising daughter Athiya for choosing natural delivery instead of comfortable C-section: ‘No uterus, no opinion’Suniel Shetty faced online criticism after praising Athiya Shetty for choosing natural childbirth, with many viewing his comments as dismis...
- Texas judge grants court-ordered abortion to pregnant woman in landmark ruling amidst state's strict banThe decision, issued on Thursday (local time), stands out as a crucial development in the ongoing discourse surrounding the state's stringe...
- Abbott introduces single-dose formulation of carbetocin in IndiaPPH, if left untreated, can result in complications like anaemia in the postpartum period or aggravate mental health problems including pos...
- Irdai asks hospitals to share facility dataIrdai on Thursday published a draft circular where it proposed that going forward, the public must have access to hospital information via ...
- View: Ayushman Bharat, a change whose time has comeEven after 15 years of successful operation of Yeshasvini, micro health insurance remained predominantly a southern and western Indian phen...
- Medical marvel: World's first baby born after uterus transplant from deceased donorThe recipient of the transplant was a patient with uterine infertility.
- ‘Health insurance may require Rs 20,000-30,000 crore ... first phase involves only the public hospitals’The first phase of the project, being started on pilot basis on August 15, involves only the public hospitals.
- SC dismisses plea for guidelines on cesarean deliveries, fines litigant"Having perused the PIL, we are of the view that the same is an abuse of process of law," the court said.
- Going to Gorakhpur’s root: The weakness of the public health systemMedical specialists are always at the highest level of the government pecking order. Young and qualified medical specialists will insist on...
- Pushing diabetics to take insulin is a medical scam: Fiona GodleeWith diabetes becoming such an epidemic in India, we need to look at the root causes and put money there rather than putting people on insu...
- This caesarean epidemic: Let’s make normal deliveries the norm againIn fact, despite the fact that C-sections carry potential complications for both mother and baby and have been proven to be riskier than un...
- Delhi government plans law to rein in private hospitalsThe law, passed by Parliament in 2010 and notified two years later, provides for registration of all health facilities, clinics and patholo...
- Hospitals drive doctors to do avoidable surgeries to meet corporate targetsWide-ranging interviews with surgeons who testified before an NGO on corrupt practices in hospitals told TOI that often patients are forced...
- Open secret: Doctors take cuts for referralsDr MK Mani, chief nephrologist in Apollo Hospital Chennai, told TOI that the practice of doctors getting kickbacks from any expensive opera...
- Star Health unveils Star Comprehensive Health policyA key feature in the policy is the replenishment of sum insured (hospitalisation and day-care) if it has been exhausted in a year.
- What you need to watch out for maternity benefits under group, individual health insuranceInsurance is about covering unforeseen eventualities and maternity really does not count as one, was insurers' common refrain.
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