A 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 faced online criticism after praising Athiya Shetty for choosing natural childbirth, with many viewing his comments as dismis...

The decision, issued on Thursday (local time), stands out as a crucial development in the ongoing discourse surrounding the state's stringe...

PPH, if left untreated, can result in complications like anaemia in the postpartum period or aggravate mental health problems including pos...

Irdai on Thursday published a draft circular where it proposed that going forward, the public must have access to hospital information via ...

Even after 15 years of successful operation of Yeshasvini, micro health insurance remained predominantly a southern and western Indian phen...

The recipient of the transplant was a patient with uterine infertility.

The first phase of the project, being started on pilot basis on August 15, involves only the public hospitals.

"Having perused the PIL, we are of the view that the same is an abuse of process of law," the court said.

Medical specialists are always at the highest level of the government pecking order. Young and qualified medical specialists will insist on...

With 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...

In fact, despite the fact that C-sections carry potential complications for both mother and baby and have been proven to be riskier than un...

The law, passed by Parliament in 2010 and notified two years later, provides for registration of all health facilities, clinics and patholo...

Wide-ranging interviews with surgeons who testified before an NGO on corrupt practices in hospitals told TOI that often patients are forced...

Dr MK Mani, chief nephrologist in Apollo Hospital Chennai, told TOI that the practice of doctors getting kickbacks from any expensive opera...

A key feature in the policy is the replenishment of sum insured (hospitalisation and day-care) if it has been exhausted in a year.

Insurance is about covering unforeseen eventualities and maternity really does not count as one, was insurers' common refrain.