The Centre is planning to double the number of medical seats in undergraduate and postgraduate courses to achieve a target of 80,000 MBBS and 45,000 PG seats by 2021, health ministry officials said.

Global drugmakers could face new U.S. scrutiny after a report from lawmakers in India alleged abuses in that country's drug approval process, lawyers familiar with such investigations said.

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The Indian medicine fraternity has launched a fresh tirade against the vice-chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University — this time for attempting to remove the term ‘surgery’ from Ayush de

Most antibiotics administered to farm animals are highly contraindicative, especially hormonal injections given to cows.

These can affect human male fertility as it affects testosterone levels in me

The year 2011 was full of small and big medical breakthrough that put Chennai on the world surgery map.

In April, orthopaedic surgeon Vijay Bose’s team performed two complex hip replacement procedur

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response on conducting an independent inquiry into alleged illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by pharmaceutical companies in various states.

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Physicians recommend that some vaccines should be given to pre-teens to help make up for the loss of immunity as they grow up.

Vaccines for adolescents and teenagers? This may surprise many parents.

New Delhi: Introducing a pathbreaking medical procedure in India, doctors will for the first time help a woman grow her eggs in her forearm, bringing in new hope for patients who become infertile f

Stockholm: Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine for the development of in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples to have childr

New Delhi, Sept. 10: The Indian Institutes of Technology may soon offer courses in medicine. The prestigious institutes have also been allowed to employ foreign nationals to permanent faculty position