http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/ India's FIRST and ONLY dedicated educational news site en-us 2007 National Network of Education Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:27:39 GMT Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:27:39 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Azad_overrules_IMA's_objections_to_rural_MBBS_course_10996/ New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has three problems with the government's plan to create a special cadre of rural doctors through a truncated MBBS course, but the health ministry has refused to yield to its pressure and will push ahead on the subject as planned.According to a top heal... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:38 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Azad_pushes_young_doctors_for_rural_services,_adds_more_PG_seats_10985/ New Delhi: The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad has exhorted young doctors to take advantage of new measures for incentivizing rural services by doctors.Speaking at the 94th annual day and convocation of Lady Harding Medical College here, Azad pointed out that by simply ... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:46:06 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Please_do_not_leave_country,_Azad_urges_young_doctors_10984/ New Delhi: Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday urged medical graduates not to leave the country after their education as there is a shortage of doctors in India."Please don't fly abroad," Azad told young doctors at the 94th Annual Day and Convocation of the Lady Hardinge Medical College. H... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:10:58 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Punish_pharma_firms_offering_doctors_gifts,_says_MCI_10944/ New Delhi: After quantifying punishments for doctors accepting gifts, the Medical Council of India (MCI) on Sunday said it has also written to the health ministry to regulate pharmaceutical companies luring doctors through gifts and free hospitality."Doctors are under our jurisdiction and we have no... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:48:18 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/BITS_Pilani_scientists_find_new_way_to_control_Malaria_10934/ Pilani (Rajasthan): In a new discovery, scientists at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS), Rajasthan have found out ways to stop the formation of a protein which helps in the creation of a gut barrier wall in the malaria carrier mosquito, Anopheles. By stopping the formation... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:28:24 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Court_asks_government_to_file_response_on_MBBS_course_10921/ New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the government to make its stand clear on a plea that a short-term course on primary health was required to allow non-MBBS persons to practice medicine in rural areas.A division bench of acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta di... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:11:53 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Indian_institute's_unique_cancer_therapy_goes_to_Malaysia_10893/ New Delhi: After successfully treating hundreds of cancer patients in India, a Noida-based institute has now accepted an offer from Malaysia to provide targeted "dendritic cell" therapy to patients there.The Institute of Cellular Therapies (ICT) has devised a new treatment that uses cell-based cance... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:06 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Centre_nod_for_3,791_additional_medical_seats_10841/ New Delhi: From the coming academic year, the centre has approved an additional 3,791 post-graduate medical seats in colleges in order to meet the growing shortage of doctors.To meet the health needs of its 1.17 billion people, India needs at least 50,000 medical graduates and 18,000 post-graduates ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:02:59 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Top_medical_colleges_lose_out_substantially_10781/ New Delhi: Top hospitals and medical colleges like the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi and Post Graduate Institute (PGI) in Chandigarh have got substantially less money in the coming fiscal as against the current financial year. As per the 2010-11 budget allocation, AIIMS ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:49:06 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Decongestion_drive_at_AIIMS_-_campus_to_shift_in_Haryana_10746/ New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has an ambitious plan to decongest the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) as it plans to build a 'new campus' and shift its 'non-critical' areas from the institute's campus to Jhajjar.The Ministry, which received a nod from the Haryana government in ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:28:17 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Health_ministry_steps_forward_to_promote_Unani_medicine_in_India_10745/ New Delhi: The National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM) set up by the government of India at Bangalore in the year 1984 to promote the formal study of Unani system of medicine in the country has planned to commence PG diploma courses in Unani Medicine in Regimental Therapy, Pharmacy and Skin Diso... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:58:21 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Fill_vacancies,_include_married_women_for_nursing_courses_-_Health_ministry_10704/ New Delhi: After those huge figures of faculty crunch in schools and colleges, now it is the turn of the health ministry to wake up and decide to fill nearly 3.5 lakh vacancies for nurses in the country. India has abysmally shameful ratio of one nurse for every 1,100 people, due to which the ministr... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:24:15 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Panel_nods_upgrading_148_medical_colleges,_extra_5000_PG_seats_10686/ New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved a proposal from Ministry of Health & Family Welfare on strengthening and upgradation of 148 state government medical colleges for starting new postgraduate disciplines and increasing 5000 PG seats by central funding during XI Pl... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:36:52 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Cabinet_committee_addresses_medicos_crunch_in_the_country_10683/ New Delhi: In the meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare gave a detailed presentation of the several measures taken to address the problem of human resources, which was a major... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:13:45 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Medical_experts_deny_setting_up_medical_colleges_in_IITs_10675/ New Delhi: The proposal of the Union Health Ministry to set up medical colleges and start courses in medicine and surgery in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has been declined by the expert committee that presided over on Tuesday to discuss the same.The top honchos however, gave their nod ... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:06:05 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Top_medical_honchos_mull_medical_courses_in_IITs_10652/ New Delhi: If the proposal of the Health secretary K Sujatha Rao comes into action, then the premier technology institutes of the country- the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) would soon see doctors passing out from the premier institute.Rao, in order to gain the consensus of various top hon... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:01:42 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Cabinet_ratifies_27_percent_reservation_for_OBC_medicos_10604/ New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved a proposal from Ministry of Health & Family Welfare for expansion in Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh for implementing 27% Other Backward Class (OBC) reservation.The central governme... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:28:08 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/DMA_medicos_protest_setting_up_of_their_rural_counterparts_10590/ New Delhi: Protesting against the new cadre of rural doctors for the new course on medicine, the Delhi Medical Association (DMA) and several other organizations have come together demanding from the government to consider the opinions of doctors and public before enforcing the project.DMA president ... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:24:34 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/MCI_proposes_300_colleges_to_produce_rural_doctors_10534/ 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 to villagers."There are around 300 districts in our country where there are no medical colleges and... Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:50:17 GMT http://www.indiaedunews.net/Medical/Azad_allays_fears_on_proposed_'rural_medical_course'_10519/ 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 Health and Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad said while dispelling his fears upon the proposed 'Rural M... Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:53:31 GMT