In a major push toward advanced and personalised medicine, the Government of India has rolled out a series of ambitious, science‑driven initiatives that promise to reshape the country’s healthcare landscape—from genomics and precision diagnostics to next‑generation targeted therapies.
One of...
In one of the most expansive health sector outlays to date, Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday unveiled a sharply enhanced healthcare Budget for 2026–27, signalling a decisive shift toward universal health coverage, stronger infrastructure...
The Union Budget 2026–27, presented in Parliament on Monday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, places a strong emphasis on expanding India’s manufacturing capabilities across seven strategic and frontier sectors. The initiatives form a major component of the government’s ‘First...
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that only two cases of Nipah Virus Disease have been detected in West Bengal since December last year, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.
Following the confirmation of the infections,...
In a major move to regulate the quality of incense sticks, the government has—for the first time—notified official Indian Standards for agarbatti, laying down clear safety norms and a list of banned substances that manufacturers cannot use.
The standards, formulated...
Scientists have developed a powerful new computational framework, PathGennie, that promises to significantly accelerate the simulation of rare molecular events—processes that are essential to drug development but typically require enormous computational resources.
The breakthrough, recently published in the Journal of...
Yet another case of the dreaded Mpox virus, the second case in Kerala, whose strain was still to be ascertained, was confirmed in Kerala on Friday after an Ernakulam native tested positive for the virus.
It is the third case...
Public trust in health system has suffered a major decline off-late, owing to availability and subsequent consumption of substandard drugs by patients, in absence of detection of NSQ medicines in the market.
However, in a shocking development, the Central Drugs...
The Union Health ministry on Monday confirmed country’s first case of Mpox clade1b emergency strain virus – for which WHO had sounded alert, in a 38-year-old patient in Kerala, who tested positive last week.
The said case is reported to...
With an aim to do away with the shortage of health facilities in rural areas of the country besides ensure sufficient number of doctors and better health facilities to each citizen of the country, the government has initiated major...
