It is time to unlock India’s potential in biomedical science & innovation : Prof. Bejon Kumar Misra

India is a world leader in the pharmaceutical and biomedical sectors but unfortunately the patients are still denied safe and quality medicines as desired by the citizens. India accounts for…

Fortis board defers approving financial results again

New Delhi: Fortis Healthcare on Monday said its board has again deferred approval of quarterly and annual financial results for the period ended March 31, 2018, saying more time is…

AIIMS post-graduates to be hired directly in institutes

NEW DELHI: All post graduates from All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will now be absorbed within the institutes across the country as part of the government’s move to…

Govt to sign MoUs with “maximum” states this week for Ayushman Bharat: JP Nadda

The union health ministry will sign memoranda of understanding with a “maximum” number of states on June 14 to launch the Prime Minister’s ambitious scheme to provide health protection to…

Giant Tumour (Cancer) outweighed Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Delhi: Surgeons of the hospital of course measured up to cleanly excising the mountain of a tumour from inside the stomach of a 62 year patient but they failed to…

Fake doc case: DMC writes to DGHS for stringent action against hospital

New Delhi, Jun 10 () The Delhi Medical Council (DMC) has written to the city government’s health department recommending “stringent action” against a private hospital in Munirka, as a patient…

Doctor, compounder booked for rape and blackmailing

Vadodara: A homeopathy doctor, who was practising at Angadh village near the city, was booked for rape at Nandesari police station on Sunday. Videos of Dr Pratik Joshi getting intimate…

Novel imaging technique can capture over 10k genes at once

Los Angeles: In a breakthrough, scientists have developed a new technique that enables them to image 10,421 genes at once within individual cells. The technique, called intron seqFISH (sequential fluorescence…

Medical seats: Why pure merit works in Assam, not in UP

If medical admissions were entirely merit based what would be the cut-off percentile required to fill all seats? Without the entire list of NEET qualified students in the country, gauging…

DCI picks up challenge to tame Tobacco triggered tide of oral cancer

New Delhi: Dental Council of India (DCI) takes up ‘challenge’ to tame the tide of oral cancer triggered by tobacco chewing. Tobacco use assuming epidemic proportions, the campaign towards cessation…