Research considers expenses arising out of visits to hospitals, clinics and doctors’ private chambers and not those from home visits by doctors...

Private hospitals ought to be made partners in the project of universalization of healthcare, especially since the industry is fraught with issues like overbilling...

Last month, at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it was decided that the subsidy on DAP fertiliser be increased by 140 per cent...

Patients’ rights activists say the move would have limited impact on expenses...

Maximum retail prices under the price caps will drop for 390 formulations of anti-cancer medications...

Call to govt to adopt ‘cost-based’ control...