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The first such public meeting to address grievances will be conducted on September 7.

After NMC India put their guidelines for doctors that mandated them to prescribe only generic and not branded drugs on hold, Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips posted about his testing on medicines.

The doctors' body also expressed concern over the regulations which bar doctors from attending conferences sponsored by pharma companies saying such a prohibition warrants reconsideration

In a statement, the association said that if doctors are not allowed to prescribe branded drugs, then why such drugs should be licensed at all

The National Medical Commission in its 'Regulations relating to Professional Conduct of Registered Medical Practitioners" also asked doctors to avoid prescribing branded generic drugs

The National Medical Commission in the Professional Conduct Regulations also bar doctors from endorsing any drug brand, medicine or equipment, or advertise them

Severe shortage of senior MBBS doctors has led to the controversial move

NMC in an advisory made it clear that students looking for admissions in foreign medical universities must ensure whether medical college is following instructions prescribed in the FMGL Act

A transgender person had approached the High Court challenging the Post Graduation Regulation of Medical Council of India

This is unlike the current practice of giving priority to marks obtained in Biology, followed by Chemistry and then Physics

Students will have access to 85 per cent of the B-category MBBS seats in the four private new medical colleges, due to Telangana govt’s decision to amend admission rules

State Health department made it clear that there was no contribution from the BJP-led government at Centre in the approval of the nine government medical colleges

National Medical Commission has directed medical colleges to respond in a timely manner to complaints of harassment and ragging made by first-year MBBS under-graduates and PG medicos.

With this, Telangana has added 900 government medical seats in just one year

The Telangana government accorded permission to the health department to conduct general transfers of Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors

The State government had granted nine medical colleges this year, of which one was for Kumram Bheem Asifabad

There are anywhere between 20,000 and 22,000 Indian students, out of which a total of 740 students were from Telangana, who had to abruptly leave their MBBS courses in Ukraine and return.

Health Minister T Harish Rao launches state-of-the-art infrastructure at the MNJ Cancer Hospital in Hyderabad on Friday.

The authorities of the Government Medical College, Kothagudem, were directed to ensure that the first batch of students appears for the final exams in accordance with the NMC Act 2019.

The allegation that freebies worth over Rs 1,000 crore were paid to the doctors for prescribing an irrational dose of popular fever drug Dolo-650 during the Covid-19 waves exposes the deeply-entrenched corruption in pharmaceutical marketing. The brazen indulgence in unethical practices also brings the conduct of the drug regulatory system under scanner. While the market […]