In a bid to ensure that the drugs available in the country are safe for consumption, the Drug Controller-General of India (DCGI) has asked the state drug inspectors to get the samples of the drugs collected and get them tested for their quality at the drug testing laboratories.

India will soon have a scientific regulatory agency responsible for the safety of the nation’s domestically produced and imported foods, cosmetics, drugs, biologics, medical devices, and radiological products.

More than 95,000 medical doctors appeared for the first-ever Common Entrance Test for post- graduate medical students. The result for the test is likely to be declared in January 2013.

Researchers in China have shown for the first time that HIV transmission rates could be reduced markedly by providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the HIV-positive partners in serodiscordant couples (where only one partner is HIV-positive).

There is a good news, India’s AIDS figures have further fallen down.

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has asked the teaching faculty of colleges to submit sworned affidavit confirming their employment with the college by November 30 days to be able to continue workin

It’s officials now: the total number of reported cases of dengue and deaths due to the deadly fever during the current year in various parts of the country has increased dramatically as compared to pr

Widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs, also known as statins, will have to carry safety warnings stating that they could cause memory loss and could increase blood sugar levels.

After dilly dallying for more than two years, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has finally accepted to notify the Bachelor of Rural Health Care Course (BRHCC).

A new conjugate vaccine is highly effective (93–100%) at preventing invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), meningitis, sepsis, bacteremic pneumonia, and other blood-borne infections in infants younger t