Healthcare
WHO updates ‘essential drugs’ list, aims to fight superbugs
07 Jun 2017
The updated list of 433 medicines, including 30 new medicines for adults and 25 for children, aims at reducing the use of certain categories of “last resort” antibiotics while specifying new uses for nine drugs
Zika in India; WHO confirms 3 reported cases in Ahmedabad
29 May 2017
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that the potentially deadly Zika virus has penetrated India, and has already infected three people in Ahmedabad
India, Germany plan joint research in Ayurveda, alternative medicines
25 May 2017
Germany has considerable interest in traditional systems of medicine and an India-German cooperation in traditional systems of medicine will give a big boost to Ayurvedic system of medicine
Govt to set up new AIIMS at Kamrup in Assam
25 May 2017
