The National Board of Examination (NBE), which will be conducting the Common Entrance Test (CET) for PG medical students, has decided to replicate the IIM model, an “online test” format for the PG medical students.

The National Board of Examination (NBE), which will be conducting the Common Entrance Test (CET) for PG medical students, has decided to replicate the IIM model, an 'online test' format for the PG med

Up to 90 per cent of school dropouts in major Asian cities are suffering from myopia, short-sightedness, a recent study published in the journal the Lancet has suggested.

There appears to be no easy solution to the scarcity of doctors in rural areas in the near future as the Medical Council of India (MCI) is set to dilute the proposed medical course which was tipped to have provided enough trained medicos in such areas.

A bill seeking to extend the tenure of the re-constituted top body governing health education — Medical Council of India (MCI) — by another year is expected to be introduced in Parliament this week.

With an aim that India should meet Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held a high-level meeting involving health wings of UN bodies, Indian industry and Bollywood in Mumbai on Saturday.

Despite its legal significance, 18 can no longer be regarded as the start of adulthood.

With an aim to reduce mother to child HIV transmission, the government is all set to launch a new drug regimen for pregnant women.

India will soon have a cheaper and easier way of detecting the tuberculosis (TB) germ.

With reports of Nimesulide causing liver toxicity red-flagged, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked the manufacturers to add “box warning” on its label, suggesting that its use to be