New Delhi: The Medical Council of India (MCI) on Friday proposed setting up of 300 medical colleges to provide education to rural students and deploy them there to provide basic health care facilities...

New Delhi: "Not recognizing the need for trained medical human resources in rural areas and unwillingness to consider new ideas for addressing it will not help the situation," the Union Minister of He...

Chandigarh: Addressing to the concerns of the shortage of corpses in the medical colleges of south India, the Dera Sacha Sauda and Tarksheel Society have announced their willingness to donate bodies t...

Mumbai: The upcoming academic year has good news stored for the medical students across various states in the country with the Medical Council of India (MCI) announcing an additional 2000 PG medical s...

New Delhi: The Health Ministry's plan to start a rural MBBS course of three-and-a-half years to provide treatment in far-flung areas will create half baked professionals and will be discriminatory...

New Delhi: Pointing to stark inequalities in Indian health care, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday called for an urgent need to redesign and reform the sector. "There is a paradoxi...

Chennai: India's first medical technology park opened recently is expected to bring cutting-edge technology to the country and drive down the cost of expensive equipment like ultrasound machines.S...

New Delhi: Seventeen doctors, including Ramakant Panda who performed heart surgery on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year, and Apollo Hospitals' founder Prathap C. Reddy were recently named fo...

Chandigarh: The Haryana government has launched two new schemes to improve the health of school going children in the state on the occasion of Republic Day, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said. ...

New Delhi: The central government today announced a health scheme to address the problem of acute shortage of doctors and health workers for mental health disorders, saying India will produce 1,756 su...