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TopicCancer medicines

Topic: cancer medicines

Govt tightens drug billing norm for CGHS claims. What new rule is & why pvt hospitals are pushing back

CGHS issued order to all empanelled hospitals in December 2024, instructing them to accept medicines supplied by CGHS or provide a purchase invoice for medicines, it is learnt.

Cancer medicines worth lakhs go missing from top-tier Gurugram hospital

An internal audit of pharmacy drugs at Narayana Superspeciality Hospital found the six injections missing. Cops have lodged FIR & began probe.

House panel urges covering medicine costs under Ayushman Bharat, especially for diseases like cancer

PM-JAY is world’s largest government-funded health insurance and assurance scheme; offers coverage of Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation.

Govt chooses 3 anti-cancer drugs for concessions — but list of life-saving costly medicines is long

Three drugs given customs duty waiver this week are all by a single drugmaker, it has been pointed out. Oncologists say concession basket needs to be extended.

Delhi Police bust fake cancer drugs racket, Syrian national among 4 arrested

Cyber cell seizes fake as well as unregistered medicines worth Rs 4 crore from two firms which allegedly manufactured and distributed them.

Pill under Rs 100 to reduce cancer recurrence? Novel nutraceutical holds promise but it’s too early

Findings by Tata Memorial Centre suggest that resveratrol, when given with miniscule doses of copper, can reduce rate of metastasis & treatment-related toxicity in cancer patients.

Combination of 2 immunotherapy drugs can help liver cancer patients live longer, finds India study

Done by researchers from Hyderabad's Asian Institute of Gastroenterology & Jaipur's Mahatma Gandhi Medical College, study was published in 'Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hepatology'.

Proposal to regulate prices of non-essential drugs on hold, RSS affiliate was among opponents

Central govt had proposed to apply trade margin rationalisation (TMR) approach to regulate prices of non-scheduled drugs, which would have resulted in capping trade margins.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.