New Education Policy (NEP), approved by the central government recently, proposes a complete overhaul of the country’s education system.
The central government has brought an ordinance for the protection of healthcare professionals amid reports of attacks on doctors, nurses and other healthcare personnel treating COVID-19 patients.
Aimed at ensuring access to effective and good quality palliative care services for every person in the state, the Kerala government recently introduced revised pain and palliative care policy with a focus on home-based care.
The Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, has cleared The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, recently. The bill prohibits commercial surrogacy and allows “altruistic surrogacy” which does not involve monetary compensation to the surrogate mother apart from medical expenses and insurance coverage during the pregnancy. One of the major aims of the bill […]
EMA and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are aligned in more than 90% of marketing authorisation decisions for new medicines, found a joint analysis by the top global drug regulatory agencies. The EMA/FDA analysis compared decisions on 107 new medicine applications at the two agencies between 2014 and 2016. The study entitled […]
Even as Travancore-Cochin Medical Council (TCMC), the Kerala state medical council, has once again issued a circular asking the medical professionals in the state to prescribe medicines in generic names
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Indian Society of Nano Medicine has come out with guidelines for evaluation of nanopharmaceuticals in India.
In a significant development, Lok Sabha recently passed the much-awaited Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016, which bans commercial surrogacy in the country
Information asymmetry and supplier-induced demand are significantly restricting consumer choice in Indian healthcare, according to a recent policy note issued by Competition Commision of India (CCI).
Nearly two months after the Union Government promulgated an ordinance replacing the existing Executive Committee of the Medical Council of India (MCI) with a nominated board of governors, nobody is sure what is going to happen next.
India’s overall COVID-19 case tally soared to 67,54,179 with 76,869 fresh incidences reported in the last 24 hours.
The results of the Phase I/II trial of the oxford vaccine ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) have shown to induce strong immune responses with no early safety concerns, according to the findings published in the journal The Lancet.
Modern clinical practices in pathogen detection are shifting from microbiology tests to molecular systems. Increasingly, this shift in molecular diagnostics away from laborious and time- consuming microbial assays is re-writing even gold-standard pathogen detection.
