Punjab’s health department is receiving flak for offering medical officers a consolidated salary of Rs. 15,000 per month. 95 of 345 medical officers recruited recently haven’t joined duty due to the meagre salary and 2 year probation period. Medical officers are being offered an initial probationary salary of Rs. 15,000 per month. Last year 100 […]
IAS officer Jagdish Sonkar based out of Chhattisgarh faced tremendous abuse on social media after a photograph showing him standing with his left foot resting on the rail of a hospital bed, while speaking to a sick child’s mother surfaced online. The 2013 batch IAS officer is also a MBBS graduate. Dr. Jagdish Sonkar routinely […]
Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by a US jury to pay $55 million to Gloria Ristesund, a woman who has been using the company’s talc powder products for feminine hygiene. This is the second straight trial loss for the company which faces close to 1,200 lawsuits. The company has been accused with not adequately […]
India’s face for the rare genetic disorder progeria, 15 year old Nihal Shrinivas Bitla succumbed to his condition in Telengana on Tuesday. Nihal’s efforts in creating awareness about the disorder in India has been very impactful and he was the face of Progeria Research Foundation’s campaign to detect undiagnosed children living in India. What is […]
AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik has reportedly said that doctors prescribing non-ayurvedic medicines are “anti-nationals”. During a recent visit to Kolhapur district of Maharashtra he said, “Some ayurveda practitioners have told me that doctors prescribing allopathy medicines often advise patients not to opt for ayurveda. Such doctors are anti-nationals”. Naik was inaugrating an ayurvede research centre at […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to reduce inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal, a leading source of arsenic exposure in infants. Relative to body weight, rice intake for infants, primarily through infant rice cereal, is about three times greater than for adults. Moreover, national intake data show that people consume the […]
People don’t need to check cholesterol levels on an empty stomach, suggests new research conducted on 300,000 participants across Denmark, Canada and the United States.The research was published in the European Heart Journal. So far, fasting was needed before cholesterol and triglyceride measurements in all countries except Denmark, where non-fasting sampling has been adopted since […]
According to a recent review of the world’s largest database of peer reviewed literature India has a handful of the best medical universities. Four medical colleges in India rank among the top 10 universities globally that published the most research between 2004-2014. On the other hand, 60% of the country’s medical colleges and teaching hospitals […]
The Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra government to develop a system which would allow the state to take action against hospitals and doctors who detain patients and hold up bodies for non-payment of medical bills. “Illegal detention should set criminal law into motion. A mechanism is much needed to enable the state to take […]
WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) has recommended the use of Sanofi’s dengue vaccine- Dengvaxia to control the spread of the life threatening mosquitoe borne disease. Dengvaxia has already been already approved for four countries including Brazil and Mexico. In a statement Sanofi reps stated that, ” The SAGE advises that countries with high dengue transmission […]