Eye on aspirational India, medical tourism, Max Healthcare steps up bed capacity expansionMax Healthcare Institute Ltd is expanding capacity to 10,000 beds over the next 3–4 years, investing ₹4,000–5,000 crore to meet rising dome...
16 Apr, 2026, 11.01 AM IST
New PMJAY rule bars hundreds of experienced cancer specialists from treating patients under Ayushman Bharat schemeAround 15 lakh cancer cases are detected in India every year, yet several states are excluding hundreds of experienced, fellowship-trained ...
07 Apr, 2026, 01.39 PM IST
This stock is benefiting from India's growing pediatric healthcare market. Why is this stock is the analyst pick of the week?India’s low spending on childcare products and services, high birth rate compared to China and the United States, increasing maternity age,...
03 Mar, 2025, 06.30 AM IST
Difficult to scale up expensive therapy beyond a point: Kiran Mazumdar-ShawCAR-T therapies, previously not available in India, have shown promising results for patients who have exhausted all other means of treatme...
03 Feb, 2023, 09.42 PM IST
ICMR's top research institute developing sputum-free tests for diagnosing TBTuberculosis is diagnosed by detecting the bacteria in the sputum. But in blood-based biomarker discovery scientists are looking at how the...
08 Jul, 2022, 09.51 PM IST
Short Covid-19 child care course in works for doctorsThe plan, which has been cleared by the Empowered Group responsible for augmenting workforce for a third wave, also makes it clear that the...
22 Aug, 2021, 07.29 AM IST
COVID: Punjab announces specialist group to frame paediatric treatment protocolTaking stock of preparations underway for a possible next wave of the virus during a virtual meeting, the chief minister ordered creation o...
07 Jun, 2021, 08.24 PM IST
No reason to believe Covid will disproportionately affect children in next wave: NTAGI chief N K AroraIn an interview, Dr N K Arora, Chairman of India's COVID-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI),...
25 May, 2021, 11.02 AM IST
USFDA approves use of remdesivir to treat Covid-19 patients in hospitalsThe approval of Veklury (remdesivir) was supported by the agency’s analysis of data from three randomized, controlled clinical trials that ...
23 Oct, 2020, 09.53 AM IST
Covid-19 No deterrent: Hospitals see a rise in patients lining upBed occupancy and out-patient consultancy on non-Covid patients in major hospitals such as Fortis, Max Healthcare, Apollo Hospital, Medanta...
08 Oct, 2020, 07.57 AM IST
Situation in Gorakhpur's BRD medical college hospital is past the stage of preventionOnly this June, NITI Aayog painted a grim picture before UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of the state’s health parameters.
21 Aug, 2017, 01.07 PM IST
DCGI eases norms for HIV paediatric drugs productionThe decision comes two months after ET reported how payment delays and regulatory hurdles had forced companies such as Cipla to stop produc...
07 Jun, 2017, 01.04 AM IST
Payment delays by NACO causing HIV drugs scarcityCipla, the sole producer of lopinavir/ritonavir, a combination HIV drug prescribed for paediatric patients, has stopped manufacturing it ov...
07 Mar, 2017, 12.41 AM IST
At big risk: Girl child losing out on cancer treatmentGender bias among families of paediatric cancer patients worrying, say doctors.
17 Dec, 2015, 12.09 PM IST
Kolkata startup makes vaccination service available at doorstepMaintaining logs for your little one's vaccination is no longer necessary; neither would one need to skip work to take their kid for vacati...
26 Nov, 2015, 08.27 PM IST
Probe team rules out 'treatment lapse' at Sishu BhawanAn inquiry conducted by a team of doctors on the death of three babies in a span of 12 hours at Sishu Bhawan has ruled out negligence.
23 Aug, 2015, 10.37 AM IST
- Lifeline Express offer services in Palghar
Lazarus said it is the 159th project of Lifeline express here under which patients with visual and hearing disabilities, facial deformities...
13 Jan, 2015, 01.42 PM IST