Category Archives: Health

Telangana now has 10,000 MBBS seats after NMC approves 810 additional seats

Telangana has crossed the 10,000-mark in MBBS seats after the National Medical Commission (NMC) approved [...]

India’s opportunity to lead the shift to non-animal drug testing

For every medicine that reaches a pharmacy shelf, many others do not make it that [...]

Nearly half of 844 million chronic kidney disease cases remain undiagnosed

An estimated 30% to 50% of chronic kidney disease (CKD) cases remain undiagnosed even in [...]

Sun Pharma gets nod from South African regulator for generic semaglutide injection

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. on Wednesday (July 15, 2026) said it has received approval from [...]

Another COVID-19 death reported in A.P., three more test positive

Close on the heels of two COVID-19 deaths in Andhra Pradesh, another person with the [...]

NMC seeks to bar approvals for medical colleges with incomplete infrastructure

In a bid to protect students, the National Medical Commission (NMC) plans to stop granting [...]

Kota C-section victims demand kidney transplant in 48 hours, write to President

It was supposed to be a two-day hospital stay and at the end of it, [...]

Kerala’s government hospitals face a shortage of specialist doctors

Sini Jaleel, 48, a senior gynaecologist at the District Government Hospital at Perinthalmanna in Malappuram, [...]

MIOT International opens emergency museum to promote life-saving awareness

MIOT International has inaugurated a public Emergency Museum, MIOT’s World of Life-Saving Moments, at its [...]

Rethinking pain and suffering beyond prescriptions

“Let’s not go to that house,” a field staff member said to me, as we [...]