News Digest

Hi-tech surgery makes piles a day-care affair
NEW DELHI: Treating piles will no longer require a painful surgery. Doctors in Delhi and Italy have jointly created a new state-of-the-art procedure that will allow piles patients to get cured, and go back home within only two hours.

Expired drugs to be moved out of stores in 15 days
CHENNAI: Unsold medicines will be cleared out of pharmacies within 15 days of their date of expiry and drug inspectors will be empowered to cancel trade licences of erring pharmacies. These are the recommendations of a high-level panel for amendments to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.

Cholesterol drug fails to curb heart condition
NEW DELHI: In a major trial, a drug used globally and also in India to raise cholesterol levels in the body has failed to show protection against heart disease.

Indian publishers book new jobs
NEW DELHI: The revolving doors of the Rs 8,000-crore English book publishing business is spinning like a roulette wheel, with people coming and going in their hunt for the top jobs.

Source: The Times of India