Conditions set in National Medical Commission Bill to allow practitioners of Indian medicine prescribe modern medicines are in reality so stringent that it is virtually impossible that they will ever be met
The controversial bridge course for AYUSH doctors to...
The road to a few square inches of space may rarely have been so hotly contested but implementing tobacco control measures has never been easy anywhere in the world.
Monday's Supreme Court stay on the Karnataka High Court order against...
It was deja vu on Tuesday as the Lok Sabha decided to send the National Medical Commission Bill to the Parliamentary standing committee for health and family welfare.
It is the second time that the committee will scrutinise a Bill...
Time was when the umbrella in the old Raj Kapoor hit ‘Pyaar Hua Ikrar Hua’ was used to market ‘NIRODH’ - possibly the first condom brand known to India. Years later while Bollywood has progressed from sarees to mini...
The first ever state level disease burden study of India has turned on its head the concept of some states being better than others in terms of health. While states like Bihar, Jharkhand, MP, Chhatisgarh, Orissa, Rajasthan, UP and...
Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma may subscribe to the view that cancer is “divine justice” for the sins of our father - or of ourselves - but scientific evidence suggests otherwise.
Sarma’s comments coincide with the publishing of the...
