Dr KK Aggarwal

India is currently in the midst of Unlock 5.0. While a short lockdown may curtail Covid cases, implementing it without adhering to correct and consistent use of masks would be counter-productive.

The NMC Act will bring in much-needed reforms in the medical education sector by ensuring probity, bringing down costs, simplifying procedures and enhancing the number of medical seats in India

The late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s (SSR) father, KK Singh, had filed a complaint before the Medical Council of India under Regulation 8.2 of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002, for professional misconduct committed by SSR’s psychologist Susan Walker.

A judge of the Orissa High Court has ordered medical practitioners to write “legible” prescriptions, preferably in capital letters

The centre has declared abortion as one of more than 20 essential health services. Yet, access to it as a human right during the abrupt, long lockdown has been especially hard for women.

The National Digital Health Mission is also of great consumer interest especially as the nation weathers the Covid hurricane and patients pile up in front of hospital admission counters.

The ambitious National Digital Health Mission under which every Indian will get a health ID has many pros. But there are also concerns about privacy and confidentiality which should be addressed

As more and more drug trials take place in the time of Covid-19, the industry needs to be more open and put most of the data in the public domain to remove opacity, retain trust and to serve as a useful database

In order to better understand the disease, ICMR has mooted a proposal for a registry. This powerful tool will analyse data of all Covid-19 patients in hospitals and should include those being home-managed.

The Assam government has...