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Expired dates? Young Indians face dating burnout despite spending more on finding loveAmid the bustling life of young urban Indians, an ironic trend emerges: individuals thriving in their careers are still finding themselves ...
70 illegal hospitals and clinics closed in UP's SambhalIn Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, the health department has cracked down on unqualified medical practitioners, leading to the closure of 70 illega...
Healthcare platform Raaz App raises $1 million in round led by Fireside VenturesThe funds will be used to enhance the platform and expand its services and reach. Additionally, it will invest in clinical trials, developm...
Doctor degrees issued to 1,500 at Rs 75,000 each: Surat police bust 20-year-long fake medical degree scamSurat police dismantled a major fake degree operation. Two ringleaders issued fraudulent electro homeopathy degrees. They charged Rs 75,000...
Portable mohalla clinics envisioned for JJ colonies, dense areas in DelhiThe Delhi government opted for this model in order to tide over the issues of land posed by DDA and civic bodies, Health Minister Satyendar...
Covid-19: Bengal’s move to rope in quacks divides medical community down the middleThe proposal is not new. In 2015, the state had taken the lead in providing some essential and basic healthcare training to quacks. Nearly ...
Indian men tackling baldness as early as in their 20sDoctors Arika Bansal and Pradeep Sethi of Eugenix Hair Sciences are putting the country on the map with their hair transplant technique.
5,000 people in UP locality living in fear of having contracted HIV infectionIn the past three months, 38 people from this locality of Bangarmau tehsil have been found HIV positive at screening camps in the past thre...
Startups taking healthcare to patientsOnline healthcare startups are taking healthcare to the remotest parts of India.
Training 'quacks' could help counter doctor shortage: StudyIncidentally, the 2001 census had found that only 19% of 'doctors' in rural areas had an MBBS degree. That situation is said to have change...
The death ward: How AES is taking lifes in UPSome doctors said the problem was being aggravated by the lack of work at the primary health centres, community health centres and district...
Indian Medical Association drawing up digital code of conductIMA is drawing a digital code of conduct for doctors to help them maintain the profession’s code of ethics as a growing number of portals c...
Naturopathy may be safe, but it’s not cheap: ExpertNaturopathy practitioners in west Delhi told TOI many people choose alternative medicine to avoid the side-effects caused by allopathy.
Capital should have strict laws governing clinical diagnostic centresThe unethical practice raises questions about the quality and cost of the tests the labs carry out. Such malpractices should be banned and ...
Kashmir: Pushed into an abyss of trauma with over usage of pleasure drugsDecades of militancy have pushed Kashmir into an abyss of trauma. Among the new ills: soaring sales of over-the-counter pleasure drugs, ris...
- Parliamentary panel objects to proposed rural healthcare course
A Parliamentary Committee has opposed introduction of an undergraduate community health course to create a new pool of healthcare professio...
- Healthcare startups march into high-risk frontiers
Pervez Ahmed has launched UrgentCare, a chain of critical care centres to help stabilise accident and trauma victims.
- Rural India looking for high quality healthcare
Govt has shown that it can create conditions for mkt mechanisms to work in healthcare. Many enterprises are stepping forward with innovativ...
- Homoeopathy business: How to sell and judge sweet white pills
Homoeopathy,s business side is bustling. But greater acceptance will require more research on how the 'cures' work.
- MHA to come up with Manipur action plan
A central team led by Union home secretary G K Pillai recently visited the district government hospital in Senapati, Manipur, to checkout t...