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Most evenings at the diabetes clinic, the conversation eventually comes back to the same word: cost. Not calorie, not carb counting, consumption. For many patients, drugs like Ozempic occupy an uneasy place between medical progress and affordability. Doctors spoke of their benefits with measured optimism; The patients listened, did the math, and quietly returned to…

NEW DELHI: With the National Medical Commission (NMC) moving towards digitization of health records of patients in medical college hospitals, regulators will soon be able to verify the actual number of Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries visiting these beneficiaries for treatment, weed out duplicate and erroneous entries. Besides improving the patient record system, the NMC’s efforts will…

NEW DELHI: Doctors in India are raising the alert for a little-known condition that may quietly rob millions of older people of their mobility and independence: sarcopenia, or age-related muscle loss.To address the issue, the Geriatric Society of India has published the country’s first “Indian Guidelines for Evaluation and Management of Sarcopenia”. The recommendations, developed…

New Delhi: Highway users who fail to pay toll charges on NH due to defects or blacklisting FASTagInsufficient balance or absence of tag, will have three days to make payment after receiving e-notice. If payment is not made within this period, double amount of toll will be charged and all vehicle (registration certificate) related services,…

CHENNAI: The principle of equal pay for equal work applies only when employees work in the same establishment under identical service conditions, Madras High Court said“There can be no comparison when it comes to public sector undertakings as well as employees working in government departments. Since the service rules are separate and distinct, the question…

NEW DELHI: With West Asia-bound cargo ships stranded in India due to conflict in the region, the shipping ministry on Friday directed all 12 major ports to consider reductions, waivers or requests for waivers of charges including storage rents, reefer plugging and ship changes.The ministry said ports may allow storage of cargo destined for West…

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah presented the budget in Bengaluru on Friday BENGALURU: Beer and wine could get cheaper as Karnataka introduced a new alcohol-in-beverage (AIB)-based excise duty system from April, becoming the first state in the country to link liquor duty directly with alcohol content. The new framework will completely deregulate government pricing and bring…

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at the JDU party meeting in Patna on Friday Patna: Nishant Kumar is set to join Janata Dal United A great political debut on March 8, the party announced Friday even as his father Nitish Kumar made it clear that the decision to go to the Rajya Sabha and step down…

New Delhi: Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Friday reiterated that there will be no dearth of funds for development work in Delhi, also asserting that laxity will not be tolerated.Gupta presided over a review meeting on road and drainage works approved earlier and directed the department concerned to complete the tendering process by March-end to…

New Delhi/Kolkata: Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday that “self-reliance was the only way to stay relevant and prepared in the current era of uncertainty” and asserted that the global situation has led to “reconfiguration of supply chains, formation of new equations and continued growth in maritime operations”, reaffirming the government’s commitment to self-reliance…