
The government on Thursday said it has issued an advisory to regulate stem cell therapy, saying the therapy is permitted as standard care in routine clinical practice only for disease conditions or indications included in the list approved by the Health Ministry....

The government on Thursday said it has proposed amendments to strengthen regulatory oversight over Schedule H, H1 and X drugs, along with recomme...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a detailed report from the Manipur Chief Secretary on 25 cases of unnatural deaths reported from relief camps in the violence-affected state, including details of post-mortem examinations, causes of death, and measures taken to prevent such incidents....

In its efforts to extend quality healthcare to employees, both serving and retired, as well as their dependents, Eastern Railway (ER) has launched telemedicine facilities at its health units....

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is showing a shifting pattern, with transmission easing in the long-time epicentre of Ituri but rising rapidly in North Kivu, where treatment capacity is nearing saturation, according to the latest government situation report released on Thursday....

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Central government whether it is contemplating framing a policy to examine the "addiction-causing" design architecture employed by social media platforms....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday accused the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress of adopting an "incompetent" and "careless" approach towards the law-and-order and healthcare infrastructure in the Gorakhpur district, during their tenures....

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains "uncontrolled" despite an overall decline in cases and deaths, as the epidemic follows increasingly different trajectories across affected parts of the country, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Wednesday....

Madhya Pradesh has screened 1.34 crore people for sickle cell disease, with Governor Mangubhai Patel directing officials to give greater priority to screening children through camps at primary schools and Anganwadi centres....

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions for a uniform and fraud-resistant verification mechanism for medical qualifications and registrations across the country....