WHO releases technical guidance for procurement, safe use of radiotherapy devices

More than half the cancer patients require radiotherapy as part of cancer care

Easy, affordable devices: Meet game changers of India's health sector

Medical diagnostics in India is set to witness a boom time as a wide array of easy-to-use and affordable devices are ready for roll-out

Why Indian students need to go abroad to study medicine

Entrance to Indian medical colleges competitive and the tuition fees are high

South African doctors are bound by many rules. Criminal charges for mistakes may have unintended consequences

Criminalisation of medical judgment may interfere with appropriate medical decision-making

Parliamentary panel raps Medical Council of India for failure in performance

Panel's report highlights corruption in the MCI, lack of transparency in appointments, failure to provide a robust system of medical education …

'Innovators of medical diagnostic tools can approach us for finances'

Mohammad Aslam, managing director of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, tells Down To Earth how the government-aided non-profit …

Inspection of medical colleges to become history soon

No final decision on NEXT, fee yet; NMC to take final call

Add zip to your wound

Today, sutures and staples are outdated methods to seal an incision

NMC Bill protestors divided: Resident doctors call off strike, IMA calls for another

While resident doctors are content on being assured to be consulted, the IMA insists on continuing the protest

Making organs

A new material might help make tissue for artificial organs

Inside view

A new technique will help see what even MRI scans cannot

Real remedy

Scientists say that they can now 'produce' blood vessels

How do blood tests work? Medical laboratory scientists explain the process

There are a lot of steps in the pathway from blood draw to diagnosis and treatment 

Rajya Sabha passes National Medical Commission Bill

The bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha recently, has been objected to by the medical fraternity on a number of grounds

National Medical Commission Bill: IMA defers protest

The association wants to first take public into confidence and wait for 'current political situation' to get better

Blood-clotting bandage

Giant computer

Medical volunteers in rural Zambia: Learning from attitudes to angels and vampires

Presence of outsiders has often produced powerful anxieties. White medical doctors in central Africa were often identified as vampires, and …

New antibiotic delivery system could improve cancer treatment

The strategy, according to researchers, may specifically be useful in treating infected cancer cells where conventional antibacterial agents …

Ultrafast healing

Ultrasound therapy can quicken the healing of lingering fractures

Take heart

50 years of CT: This is the man you must thank

Hounsfield’s innovation transformed medicine. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979 and was knighted in 1981

Diagnosis through breath

Treating cervical cancer

Radiation therapy and chemotherapy can halve cervical cancer deaths among women

Artificial body

Japanese scientists have discovered a new material that can grow new cells in the human body