The turf war between the Union health ministry and the human resource development (HRD) ministry over the proposed over-arching regulators seems to have ended with both the ministries now gearing up t

Rising figures of deaths and failures following sterilisation has got the government worried and a concerned Union health ministry has decided to seek an evaluation of the entire sterilisation process in the country done through the government agencies.

If numbers are to be believed, students from India doing their MBBS from countries like Russia and China are unlikely to become successful doctors.

Indians who have studied medicine in five English speaking countries — UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — will now be eligible to practice in India.

In a significant move, the Union health

Indians who have studied medicine in five English-speaking countries — UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — will now be eligible to practice in India. In a significant move, the Union health ministry has decided to recognise their degrees, making them eligible to practice in India without appearing for the “screening test”.

Opining that a person surviving suicide should be entitled for treatment and not punishment, the ministry of health and family welfare has asked the ministry of home affairs to repeal Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which prescribes imprisonment for the one committing suicide.

After receiving support from most of the states, the Medical Council of India (MCI) on Monday finally decided to start common entrance test (CET) for undergraduate and post-graduates medical students from next year.

In a bid to ensure an effective implementation of immunisation programme, the Union health ministry recently set up a call centre to keep a track and verify children and mothers getting vaccinated acr

The recent gesture of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and wife Gursharan Kaur to pledge their eyes has come as a hope to the medical fraternity who believe that people in general may follow the “muc

Even as the Union health ministry is pushing for stricter norms with reg-ard to take over of Indian pharmaceutical companies by multinational companies (MNCs), there seems to be a sharp divide within