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Adhventha Hospital announces fellowship in interventional radiology

What are stem-cell donor registries and how do they work?

For patients who need a stem-cell transplant but do not have a suitable family donor, registries provide access to potential unrelated donors. Experts say…

NIMHANS launches online course to train faculty as student well-being ambassadors

The initiative is among the steps towards implementing Karnataka’s student mental health policy for higher education

IIIT-H study caution doctors against relying entirely on AI for medical diagnosis

The researchers find discrepancies in chest X-ray regions highlighted by vision-language models and radiologists

The cost of being absent: students caught between health and attendance

The UGC 2025 regulations allow minimum attendance requirements to be set by individual higher education institutions. In most HEIs, 75-80% attendance is required, with…

India struggles to curb leprosy transmission

India continues to report more leprosy cases, childhood infections and disability than projected, highlighting the need to interrupt transmissions

Centre to cap trade margins on non-scheduled cancer drugs to 30% of MRP

Average trade mark-up on these drugs now around 170%, reaching 700% in some cases; intervention to cut prices by up to 70% of MRP,…

Union Health Minister launches JOSH teams to accelerate TB elimination drive

67,933 Panchayats across 697 districts recognised as TB Mukt in 2026: Minister

Women account for 43% of Ayush services workforce, says Centre’s report

The Ayush services sector supports 1.76 million livelihoods across healthcare, wellness, education and allied services

Pneumonic plague outbreak in Russia? What we know so far

An employee at a plague research institute in Siberia, Darya Shipilova, employed at a plague research institute in Siberia fell ill and died in…

Closing the gaps in early childhood eye care

India already has an extensive network of frontline health workers, immunisation services, school health programmes and primary and tertiary healthcare facilities. The challenge now…

NMC brings doctors’ digital patient acquisition under ethics rules

Paid rankings, fake reviews, referral fees and AI-generated patient testimonials prohibited; repeated violations can lead to suspension or removal from medical register