Health News

New Delhi: In a significant development towards strengthening India’s tertiary healthcare infrastructure and services, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation five All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Rajkot (Gujarat), Bathinda (Punjab), Raebareli (Uttar Pradesh), Kalyani (West Bengal) and Mangalagiri (Andhra Pradesh), on Sunday. He also inaugurated, laid foundation stone for, and…

New Delhi: Pharmaceutical companies last year launched new U.S. drugs at prices 35 per cent higher than in 2022, reflecting in part the industry’s embrace of expensive therapies for rare diseases like muscular dystrophy, a Reuters analysis found. The median annual list price for a new drug was $300,000 in 2023, according to the Reuters…

Mumbai: Kerala leads India’s healthcare talent migration to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, especially to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which witnessed a 3.3-fold increase in demand in 2023, said a report. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh emerged as the leading states contributing to the migration of healthcare workers, including nurses,…

Bengaluru: Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a synthetic human antibody that can neutralise a potent neurotoxin produced by the Elapidae family of highly toxic snakes, which includes the cobra, king cobra, krait and black mamba. The team at IISc’s Scripps Research Institute and the Evolutionary Venomics Lab (EVL) at the…