Rx Name Unethical Practitioners: A medical thriller unfolds in IndiaIndia's Department of Pharmaceuticals found AbbVie Healthcare India sponsored ₹1.91 crore in international trips for 30 doctors, violating ...
19 Jun, 2025, 11.17 PM IST
Argentine court declares mistrial in Diego Maradona death case over judicial ethics breachAn Argentine court declared a mistrial in the case involving seven medical professionals charged with culpable homicide in Diego Maradona’s...
30 May, 2025, 12.21 PM IST
Couple sues doctor for ‘medical rape’ after IVF mix-up involving wrong spermA California couple, Jane and John Roe, is suing a fertility doctor, Dr. Hal C. Danzer, after discovering he used a stranger's sperm during...
24 Dec, 2024, 01.18 PM IST
AbbVie Healthcare under government lens for 'violations'The department of pharmaceuticals (DoP) reprimanded AbbVie Healthcare India for unethical marketing practices involving over ₹1 crore spent...
23 Dec, 2024, 11.32 PM IST
Doctors to be penalised for not prescribing generic drugs, says new NMC regulationAll doctors must prescribe generic drugs, failing which they will be penalised and even their license to practice may also be suspended for...
12 Aug, 2023, 04.05 PM IST
Government forms committee to regulate marketing practices of pharma companiesThe panel includes secretary of the department of pharmaceuticals S Aparna, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan, and Central Board of Dir...
21 Sep, 2022, 03.57 PM IST
Death of Bhopal volunteer cast a shadow over Bharat Biotech's Covid vaccineBharat Biotech in a statement issued on Saturday had said that the death of the 42-year-old man in Bhopal who participated in the trial was...
11 Jan, 2021, 09.49 AM IST
Department of Pharmaceutical asks industry to regulate promotional practicesThe DoP secretary has told both the domestic and multinational pharma lobby groups along with the medical device industry to “strictly” com...
25 Dec, 2019, 06.41 PM IST
Code prohibits doctors from taking gifts from pharmaceutical companiesHealth Minister Harsh Vardhan said that the code of conduct for doctors in their relationship with pharmaceutical and allied sector industr...
12 Jul, 2019, 02.58 PM IST
Reusing single-use devices: FDA warns Fortis hospitalsFortis had received the notices and was "evaluating the observations" and would respond appropriately, its spokesperson told PTI.
27 Apr, 2017, 11.55 PM IST
Why medical information of leaders is also confidentialThe highest traditions of medical practice are based on four key universally acknowledged propositions: Autonomy, confidentiality, benefice...
13 Oct, 2016, 11.26 AM IST
Medical Council of India may be scrapped soon"The committee on MCI has finalised its report after several rounds of deliberation on the issue with stakeholders and experts," a source s...
24 Jul, 2016, 11.43 AM IST
Indian Medical Association drawing up digital code of conductIMA 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...
17 Apr, 2015, 04.25 AM IST
Advertising Industry watchdog ASCI backed by Medical Council of IndiaASCI has processed a large number of complaints of healthcare products, services & clinic ads which has mention of or promotions of doctors,
19 Sep, 2014, 05.08 PM IST
Row over clinical trial as 254 Indian women dieThe trial was for a cervical cancer screening method and the women who died were part of a control group kept without screening to study de...
21 Apr, 2014, 11.13 AM IST
- Law violator or Indian Doogie Howser
A 15 yr old performed a filmed caesarean section birth to gain a spot in Guinness Book of World Records.
21 Jun, 2007, 02.30 PM IST
- 15-yr-old performs surgery, sparks anger
15 year old boy performes a filmed caesarean section birth under his parents' watch to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.
21 Jun, 2007, 02.30 PM IST