BharathMD Foundation organised ‘OJAS 2026’, a national awareness programme on muscular dystrophy, at the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, bringing together medical experts, policymakers, corporate representatives, media professionals, affected childre...
The Supreme Court of India has raised serious concerns over the high prices of medicines and medical consumables charged to patients by hospitals. During a hearing on October 27, 2026, the Court questioned how a cancer injection reportedly available to a medical distributor for ₹11,000 was...
Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Prataprao Jadhav has launched the fourth edition of the Tobacco Free Youth Campaign (TFYC 4.0), calling upon young people to lead a nationwide movement against tobacco use and addiction. Launched at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of...
PIB: The Government of India has approved a 30% cap on trade margins for non-scheduled anti cancer medicines, a move expected to reduce prices by up to 70% and help patients save an estimated ₹2,500 crore annually. The decision aims to make cancer treatment more affordable by limiting the ...
World leaders and senior health officials gathered at the United Nations on Friday for the second UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR), focusing on strengthening the world’s ability to prevent, detect and respond to future pandemic...
The Commissioner’s Task Force, Golconda team, along with Golconda Police, arrested a 23 year old man allegedly running a healthcare centre without valid medical qualifications or a required licence in Hyderabad’s Golconda area. According to Hyderabad Police, the accused was identified as M...
Karnataka’s Food Safety and Drugs Administration (FDA) has cancelled 16 drug licences and suspended eight others as part of an investigation into the alleged distribution and sale of spurious medicines. The regulatory action follows an August 18 raid by the FDA’s Drug Enforceme...
As millions of Sudanese return to areas of the capital region damaged by years of war, health workers are facing another serious challenge a rise in malaria cases. At Omdurman Teaching Hospital, doctors say malaria patients are taking up a large share of the emergency department’s be...
INPR: Hyderabad: The Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) has successfully performed cardiac surgeries on 19 children suffering from congenital heart diseases during a special Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Camp held from September 6 to 12. Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy congratulated th...
Telangana has earned national recognition for its deceased organ donation programme, but a disturbing gap between organ donations and the number of patients needing transplants continues to cost lives. Data from the state run Jeevandan programme, covering 2013 to 2026, shows that 19,386 pa...
