In order to cut prices of patented medicines for cancer and rare diseases, a high-level government panel has made a series of far reaching recommendations including granting “compulsory license” to any Indian...
“In more than two decades, I have come across just three such cases. This is a very rare syndrome present from birth where the patient fails to automatically breathe,” the...
A full bench of the Kerala High Court has held that sales tax cannot be levied for medicines, implants, and other consumables used as part of a surgical procedure or...
Inborn errors of metabolism can easily be detected at an early stage through the test and diseases can be prevented even before their symptoms appear. New Delhi: The doctors working in...
Doctors in the national capital have pitched for mandatory newborn screening (NBS) in the country stating Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM), often referred to as congenital metabolic diseases or inherited...
Krishna Kini with his parents Dhiraj and Surekha It has only been three months since Krishna Kini, an 11-year-old boy has started taking interest in his surroundings — he now...
New Delhi: Taking a dim view of the “somersault” by the Centre on the policy to treat rare diseases, Delhi high court has summoned the Union health secretary for an...
Inborn errors of metabolism can easily be detected at an early stage through the test and diseases can be prevented even before their symptoms appear. New Delhi: The doctors working in...
AHMEDABAD: A city-based genetics researcher has found 12 unique variants of genes responsible for the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) — also known as Batten disease — in the Indian population....
