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…
Formulating stringent law to regulate pvt hospitals: Maha govt to HC
Mumbai, Jun 8 The Maharashtra government today told the Bombay High Court that it was in the process of formulating a stringent law, on the lines of the Centre’s Clinical…
MBBS fee in private colleges capped at Rs 6.8 lakh per year
BENGALURU: The maximum annual fee for a first-year Indian student of an undergraduate MBBS course in a private medical college in Karnataka cannot exceed Rs 6.8 lakh a year. For…
We want to change the overall healthcare scenario in rural Bengal: Rohit Misra
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Rohit Misra, MD-United Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd, Kolkata, to get a glimpse of neglected healthcare in rural Bengal and how United Laboratories has stepped…
