Joining a Clinical Trial proved boon for a despairing heart patient

New Delhi: After a bypass, an angioplasty, 10 hospitals, 13 times angiogram and a 3 year Ramdeo rendezvous, 59 year old heart patient diabetic Mandeep Singh (name changed) lost all…

India showcased its unique model for Food Safety at Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa/New: Food safety emerging as an important public health and developmental issue, India has claimed in the first international conference on the issue that it has developed a unique…

E-AUSHADHI Portal is live now

Most awaited portal E-AUSHADHI, finally made live by the Ministry of AYUSH to increase transparency and accountability for online licensing of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy drugs and related matters.…

Why is India still lagging far behind in global Clinical Research?

New Delhi: Despite a huge disease burden, clinical research in India is still on the sidelines. As clinical research is a must for advancing frontiers of health, India urgently needs…

Union Health Ministry directed to Rectify Clinical Establishment Amendment Rules, 2018

As per Supreme Court orders, dated December 12, 2017 and July 10, 2018; the NHRC( National Human Rights Commission) has directed the Union health and family welfare ministry to amend…

Why eradication of leprosy in India is elusive so far ?

New Delhi: Leprosy cases in India keeps spiking intermittently making its eradication elusive. Every year over 2 lakh new leprosy   cases are detected around the world, with India accounting for…

Erectile Dysfunction: The Deadly Disorder in Men

Erectile dysfunction is a disease which occurs in an adult man where his penis does not work properly during sexual intercourse. He faces a problem in getting an erection and…

Eat Right, Wheat Wrong, Rice Nice

New Delhi: Dr Kalpana Gupta Sekhawat of Freedom Age Clinic at Gurgaon has banished from her house wheat and all other food kinds which cause inflammation in the gut. Despite…

Teeth friendly New Bioactive Dental Filling Material is in the offing

New Delhi:  A team of Indian scientists has developed a new technique that promises to help produce bioactive dental filling materials which will take much lesser time for formation of…

Lean Indians too are susceptible to type- 2 diabetes

New Delhi: Perish the thought that only obese and overweight people are susceptible to type-2 diabetes. A recent study has found that, unlike west, nearly 20 to 30 percent suffering…