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Friday, July 25, 2025
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Topic: Doctors

Amid row over generic drug prescription rule, NMC puts new conduct norms for doctors on hold

IMA and pharma companies protested clause in the regulations that asked doctors to only prescribe generic medicines and introduced penal provisions for those who don't comply.

As a dermatologist, why it’s not easy for me to prescribe generic medicines

The government needs to convene a national debate on the use of generic drugs and manufacture of high-quality products at an affordable price.

After stabbing of Kerala doctor, renewed calls for central law to protect medical professionals 

In 2019, Modi govt had drafted a legislation seeking to penalise violence against medical professionals. The proposed law had to be shelved due to objections from MHA.

Overworked doctors, stressed students: How delay in NEET schedule every year is exacting a cost

With 1st-year postgraduate students joining workforce late, doctors are putting in extra hours. Meanwhile, undergrads preparing for exam are getting demotivated, say those from fraternity.

Artificial pancreas may soon be lifeline for UK’s type 1 diabetics. Why it’s not yet big in India

UK patients may soon be covered for the device, which measures blood glucose, computes amount of insulin needed and then pumps that exact amount into bloodstream.

UP doctor befriends woman online, rapes her with two other colleagues

When the woman visited the hospital to meet the doctor, he took her to his hostel room where he and two other doctors raped her. The doctor has been arrested from the hospital.

In India, doctors are now NEET-coached graduates who haven’t dealt with actual patients

It doesn’t make much of a difference if our MBBS students are from China or Ukraine or India. They have studied notes, not patients.

India needs to do better by its doctors.Timely salaries, facilities, not empty gestures count

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

‘Transfer’ of 2 dead doctors triggers row, UP Deputy CM says top officer didn’t follow policy

Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak has written to Additional Chief Secretary (Medicine & Health) Amit Mohan Prasad, questioning transfers effected end-June.

How I learned to stop feeling bad about my failure and accepted my new ‘psychologist’ self

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

On Camera

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.