Medical students and doctors across the country join hands in protest against the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill 2019. The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the largest body of doctors and students in the country, has given a call to all students across medical colleges to observe a 24-hour hunger strike on Wednesday as a mark […]
Any life-threatening disease that affects a hundred people in a population of one lakh can be considered ‘rare’. Primary immune deficiency disorders, inborn errors of metabolism, and Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSD) such as Pompe disease and Gaucher disease are some of the commonly found rare diseases in the State of Kerala. Treatments for such rare […]
India will be launching its first human genome mapping project by October. This move will help the researchers get closer to developing effective therapies for treating diseases like cancer. The first phase of the project initiative called the Genome India project would catalogue the genomic data of 10,000 Indians. Dr Renu Swarup, secretary, Department of […]
Women’s rights and education have always been a constant topic of debate. During British rule, the Indian women were supposed to hide behind their veils. Education and career was a distant dream for the helpless women of that time. But, this woman’s story doesn’t portray the oppression of women of that time. This is a […]
After a long wait, the cabinet has approved the National Medical Commission Bill 2019(NMC). The bill aims at overhauling the systems in medical education in India and replace the Medical Council of India with a National Medical Commission. The Bill will reduce the cost of private medical education, ease the burden of entrance exams on […]
The Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) has launched a vaccine trial to prevent TB for the first time since the BCG vaccine trial. The clinical trial aims at preventing and decreasing the burden of TB in the country. Every year, nearly three lakh people are reported to contract TB. The trial will enrol more than […]
On the light of the continuing assault against doctors, the Indian Medical Association has made an appeal to the union government for early enactment of a law to control the attacks against the doctors with a provision of stringent action against attackers. The government had recently formed an inter-ministerial committee to frame central legislation covering […]
A new study suggests that a strain of the common cold virus can infect and kill bladder cancer cells. The research study was published in the ‘Clinical Cancer Research’ medical journal. Researchers from the University of Surrey and Royal Surrey County Hospital investigated the safety and tolerability of exposure to the oncolytic (‘cancer-killing’) virus coxsackievirus […]
The Union Health Ministry is working on incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a safe and effective way in public health. “To address gaps in India’s AI ecosystem and realise its economic impact, the central government has prioritised building AI technology capabilities”, said the Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan. “The potential of AI in public […]
After capping the price of stents and knee implants, the government is now planning to further regulate the medical devices industry in the next five years. The government is now working on a proposal to formulate a pricing policy for over 6,000 medical devices like pacemakers, hearing aids, glucometers, and blood pressure instruments. The proposal […]