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Public health groups, doctors urge for hike in tobacco tax
New Delhi: Public health groups along with doctors and economists have urged the government to increase excise duty on all tobacco products in the Union Budget 2024-25 to generate additional revenue. In…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP: CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy invited to doctors’ sports meet
Amaravati: The representatives of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Andhra Pradesh unit called on Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at the camp office in Vijayawada on Wednesday and invited him to…
- Health
Youths should balance hard work with healthy diet, lifestyle: Doctors
New Delhi: Youths should learn to balance hard work with a healthy diet, proper sleep and timely exercise, doctors said while cautioning that overwork is leading to early onset of lifestyle diseases.…
- India
Sponge left inside woman’s abdomen after C-sec in Bihar hospital
Patna: In a case of medical negligence, doctors of a private hospital left a surgical sponge in a woman’s abdomen after a cesarean section in Bihar’s Vaishali district. The incident took place…
- Health
Rising ‘text-neck syndrome’ accounts for 70% OPD visits: Doctors
Faridabad: There has been a significant rise in “text-neck syndrome”, especially among the young adults, which account for about 70 percent in the outpatient department, said city doctors on Monday on the…
- Andhra Pradesh
Chandrababu in stable condition, no need to hospitalise: Doctors team
Rajamahendravaram: A team of doctors which examined TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu in the Rajamahendravaram central prison on Saturday said he is in a stable condition and there is no need to…
- India
‘No serious illness’: Court rejects Naresh Goyal’s plea for daily doctors’ visits
Mumbai: Finding that Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal does not suffer from any serious or life-threatening illnesses, a Mumbai Special PMLA Court declined his plea for daily jail visits by his medicos,…
- India
Regulations mandating doctors to prescribe generic drugs put on hold
New Delhi: The newly-notified Registered Medical Practitioner (Professional Conduct) Regulations, 2023, by the National Medical Commission (NMC), has been held in abeyance by the Union government. The latest development come days after…
- India
SC notice to Centre on disabled doctor’s plea seeking admission in PG course
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought the response of the Centre and others on a plea filed by a doctor with locomotor disability seeking admission in a postgraduate medical course under…
- India
Amid rise in eye infection cases, doctors ask people to take all precautions
New Delhi: Amid a rise in cases of conjunctivitis and other eye infections in Delhi, doctors have advised people to take all precautions, especially in crowded places. Doctors at both government and…