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Are Doctors the Fall Guys?

- May 23, 2017

Jharkhand has proposed a bill to protect these professionals and also make them and hospitals more accountable. But how about enforcing already existing laws so that healthcare doesn’t work in a regul...

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Generic medicines: Spoilt for Choice

- May 11, 2017

Prime Minister Modi’s push for these medicines over costlier ones can be successful only if pharmacies, drug controllers and doctors put aside their greed and patients are educated ~By Kamal Kuma...

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Fighting Antibiotic Resistance

- February 28, 2017

Finally, the government has stepped in to arrest the spread of antibiotic resistance that is now threatening our lives. It will soon have to ensure that laws are formulated to ensure that it works ...

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Govt Acts to Rein in the ‘Business’ of stents

- December 28, 2016

Doc-corporate nexus behind gratuitous use, move late, but necessary one By Sujit Bhar Somewhere within the complex medical system of high tech, biology and care, flourishes the corporate world. ...

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Scary Online Webcare

- November 25, 2016

Demonetization has led to many patients opting for online consultations. But, the medical practitioner diagnosing you online may not even be a doctor… and the Medical Council of India pleads helples...

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High on Pain

- June 22, 2016

While amendment to this act was meant to make access to morphine and other such opioids easier for those suffering from pain, stringent jail terms and fear of addiction means that few doctors prescrib...

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Donor Deficiency

- June 17, 2016

The shortage of organs for transplant is growing by the day. It is now clear that tweaking laws alone will not do and the focus must shift to spreading awareness that organ donation is a noble and lif...

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Bitter to Better Medicine

- June 14, 2016

A parliamentary panel has recommended that these be regulated and untested and unlicensed formulations crowding the market, pushed by misleading advertisements, must be checked By Ajith Pillai ...

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Health care in India: Drastic Surgery Needed

- March 28, 2016

A scathing indictment of the Medical Council of India shows why health care in India is plagued by corruption and malaise. Urgent steps need to be taken to revitalize this vital sector By Ajith Pilla...

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Time to clean up the MCI

- March 23, 2016

A report by a parliamentary committee on health has indicted the Medical Council of India for corruption and recommended replacing it with a National Medical Commission By Dinesh C Sharma Duri...

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