According to the new notification by NMC, there will be a common national medical register for all the registered medical practitioners of ...

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said that the code of conduct for doctors in their relationship with pharmaceutical and allied sector industr...

The MCI has also asked the medical practitioners to ensure that there is rational prescription and use of drugs, failing which action will ...

The bill proposes constitution of the Medical Advisory Council and to have representations from a broad set of experts drawn from across th...

"The committee on MCI has finalised its report after several rounds of deliberation on the issue with stakeholders and experts," a source s...

A Parliamentary panel has sought a stronger mechanism for ethical oversight of medical practice to address concerns of malpractices or medi...

IMA is drawing a digital code of conduct for doctors to help them maintain the profession’s code of ethics as a growing number of portals c...

The doctors’ regulatory body is also in the process of sending a letter to the Drug Controller General of India, urging it to warn and take...

My conscience began pricking and I left the hospital- Dr Gautam Mistry, Kolkata, cardiologist who left a corporate hospital after seven yea...

For ongoing trials, it may not be made mandatory immediately but these will also be brought under the accreditation fold eventually, he con...

Most doctors depend on advertisements in medical journals or direct marketing by representatives to gather information about new medication...

ASCI has processed a large number of complaints of healthcare products, services & clinic ads which has mention of or promotions of doctors,

Medical Council of India now seems to be suggesting that even doctors who are office bearers in these associations are beyond its jurisdict...

The decision to make compensation mandatory in such cases comes four weeks after the Supreme Court chided the government for its sloppy reg...

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has finalised a code of conduct restraining doctors from getting influenced by drug makers through gifts...

Union health minister A Ramadoss said doctors should follow their personal code of conduct and refrain from 'accepting perks or bribes'.

Delhi operation of a pharma co as earmarked an annual budget of Rs 2 crore for freebie for doctors in the Capital alone.