After the advent of the US Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, US insurance companies plan to encourage medical tourism.
Forced out of grounds, tracks and courts by the coronavirus pandemic, sports events may help in the long run, but medical experts on Wednesday warned that resuming anything this year could mean putting lives at risk. When sporting events do eventually make a comeback, which some of the region's top doctors believe is not going to happen until at least the next six months or may be nine, it may not be the same initially.
The entire area has been cordoned off and National Disaster Management Authority has also been informed about the incident.
Modi did not consider these deaths important enough to express regrets. Will these lives continue to count for nothing? asks Jyoti Punwani.
Volunteers dressed as clowns visit hospitals and old-age homes to spread cheer and dispel the gloom of ill health and old age.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court seeking cancellation of interim bail granted to former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala in the JBT teachers recruitment scam case, saying he violated bail conditions.
India's former hockey captain, Mohammed Shahid who won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic games died at a Gurgaon hospital on Wednesday.
The health condition of former India opener Chetan Chauhan, who tested positive for COVID-19 last month, has worsened after he developed multi-organ failure and he is now on ventilator support at a medical facility in Gurugram.
Anna Hazare will leave for Bangalore on Thursday for naturopathy treatment after spending three days at a super specialty hospital in Gurgaon where he underwent a detailed check up.
Earlier in the day, insurance regulator Insurance Regulatory Development Authority chairman J Harinarayan had expressed the hope that hospitals and insurers would be able to arrive at a mutual solution.
The government on Saturday maintained that the decision of airlifting the Delhi gangrape victim to Singapore was in the interest of the patient and not a political decision.
Former Chief Justice of India J S Verma, who headed the government-appointed committee to frame a tough law to tackle crime against women in the wake of the December Delhi gang rape incident, died in New Delhi on Monday. He was 80.
Anna Hazare, who was admitted in a hospital in Gurgaon after he ended his 12-day fast for a strong Lokpal Bill, is stable and moving towards normalcy, doctors said on Monday.
The 42-year-old designer was initially rushed to Aashlok Hospital in New Delhi from where he was later shifted to Gurgaon-based Medanta Medicity, the source said, adding that he is presently under medical care.
The Paytm employee, who tested positive for the contagious disease with flu like symptoms on Wednesday, came in touch with 91 people in Gurgaon, an official said, citing his counterpart in the suburban town.
President Pranab Mukherjee presented five Padma Vibhushan, eight Padma Bhushan and forty-three Padma Shri awards at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Several trains were cancelled, highways and key roads blocked and many thousands stranded for hours on Monday as a nationwide 10-hour shutdown against the Centre's three agri laws disrupted lives across parts of India, particularly in the north.
Say heavy penalties for medical errors might raise health care costs and make practitioners too cautious, says Sushmi Dey
The 89-year-old died at a private hospital in Gurgaon.
The 86-year-old Congress leader had been suffering from various ailments, sources in Medanta Medicity said.
Since its launch in September, Ayushman Bharat has issued 20 million cards and has set an ambitious target to hit another 30 million within the next three months.
'There were any number of Congress leaders who disliked Sonia Gandhi, but they were very close to Ahmed Bhai and he would listen, and give a shoulder to cry upon.'
'It will only get worse, definitely, for the next month and one-and-a-half months.'
Vidya Charan Shukla, a former union minister and Congress veteran from Chhattisgarh, died on Tuesday in a Gurgaon hospital after battling injuries sustained in a deadly naxal attack on a convoy of party leaders a fortnight ago.
India 'throws up' investment opportunities for Qatar investors.
Former India hockey Olympian Joseph Antic's condition has improved since being hospitalised in Mumbai on Friday morning.
Issuing a travel advisory, the health ministry also called for passengers with travel history to China, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Japan, Italy, Thailand, Singapore, Iran, Malaysia, France, Spain and Germany to undergo self-imposed quarantine for a period of 14 days from the date of their arrival, and their employers to facilitate work-from-home for such employees during this period.
Formal announcement of venture into new segment on Thursday; group's entry timely, given the demand, say experts
Consultants are working with various teams on manufacturing, R&D, etc, to assess per-month productivity of each department.
The Sensex ended above 27,000 for the first time while the Nifty topped 8,100.
Happy at the clear mandate given by voters to the BJP-led NDA, India Inc on Friday exuded confidence that Narendra Modi will initiate bold and decisive policy reforms to promote economic growth.
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