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TechEagle gets approval to deliver medicines using drones in Telangana

Delivery is being done in collaboration with the Government of Telangana, NITI Aayog and World Economic Forum

Lupin to enter digital healthcare space; to provide platform for doctors

Lupin said it will enter the digital healthcare space in India with a focus to provide a digital therapeutics platform for doctors and patients.

Google-backed Dunzo to pilot drone delivery of medicines in India

The impetus will be on enabling emergency medical deliveries which could include Covid-19 vaccines under the "Medicine from the Sky Project"

Health centre or a cattle shelter? Rural Bihar's health reality in Covid times

Every time when a person from rural India travels miles for a healthcare facility, it tells us how far we are from building an efficient healthcare system. And when something like a pandemic hits that fragile health infrastructure, everything falls apart. And at a time when the whole country is bearing the brunt of Covid-19 with patients and their families struggling to get medical attention, even in India's metropolitan cities, people in rural areas are facing a different challenge altogether. Today, we are talking about the worsening state of health affairs in Bihar. Watch video

Karnataka reports 1,250 black fungus infections, 39 fatalities

Of the 1,250 affected patients, 1,193 are still under treatment.

Andaman and Nicobar update: 20 new cases push Covid-19 tally of to 6,984

The COVID-19 caseload in Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 6,984 as 20 more people tested positive for the disease in the Union Territory, a health department official said on Monday

The rural worry

Bharat is suffering on multiple counts

Better choice of contraceptives can prevent breast cancer, says study

A new study found that contraceptive-related breast cancer can be prevented by more informed choices about the composition of contraceptives

Bajaj Healthcare launches drug for black fungus infection in Covid patients

Posaconazole API, launched on Friday, will be used in treating Mucormycosis infection in Covid-19 patients

It's living hell, we are helpless, says HC on black fungus drug shortage

It's a situation where we want to help but we are helpless, the Delhi HC lamented on Friday while hearing pleas on the shortage of black fungus medicine and the problems being faced by the patients.

Govt issues guidelines on vaccinating elderly, differently-abled near home

Vaccination sessions could be organised at community centres, resident welfare association centres, panchayat ghar, school buildings or old age homes, among others

India needs specialised healthcare to treat Covid-19 in children: Experts

Country must prepare though there is no science or data to back fears that children will be hit in the next wave of infections.

ESRI in talks with govt for tech help in Covid-19 pandemic fight

The purpose is to see if the states and the Centre can use its technology to tackle the issues arising from the pandemic.

Secure health facilities, oxygen plants during upcoming monsoon: Home secy

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Friday reviewed the national disaster management apparatus and "advised" concerned agencies to be better prepared

Awareness shot: Districts with higher literacy doing better in vaccination

College education matters, smaller states lead in inoculating their population against pandemic.

'Entire families' wiped out, anger grows as Covid-19 engulfs rural India

In Basi, about 1.5 hours from the capital New Delhi, about three-quarters of the village's 5,400 people are sick and more than 30 have died in the past three weeks.

Rising Covid spending, fuel prices to crowd out consumer demand: SBI report

Massive increase in healthcare spends, especially in the hinterland, steadily rising fuel prices and online delivery of articles will increase inflation pressure much higher, according to SBI report

Herbs need good marketing

Annual trade in herbal medicinal products is estimated at Rs 8,000-9,000 crore in the home market and around Rs 1,000 crore in the export bazaar

Biden revokes Trump's order barring immigrants who cannot afford healthcare

US President revoked a 2019 proclamation issued by former President Donald Trump preventing immigrants from obtaining visas unless they proved they could obtain health insurance or pay for health care

At Delhi hospitals, shortage and a long wait for Covid-19 vaccine

Private, state govt hospitals struggle; central govt hospitals seem to be doing better