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International models claim a relatively unknown homeopathic medicine as a beauty cure; Indian models clueless. While Indian models may be relying on expensive cosmetic products for skin problems, international models seem to have discovered a cheap homeopathy cure for beauty problems.
At the recently conclude...
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday registered a disproportionate assets case against former Dental Council of India president Dr Anil Kohli.
This comes almost a week after the CBI filed a chargesheet against Ketan Desai, the former president of the Medical Council of India.
How can we improve the training process? Society needs physicians to more rapidly adopt known best practices and discover new best practices. This implies training physician in two new skills: 1) prompt clinical process change and 2) innovation development. These are not well represented in most undergraduate and graduate medica...
In what is being seen as a significant move, it is heard that the Medical Council of India (MCI) has decided to introduce a two month foundation course for all the students taking MBBS program. As part of that, students would be taught on subjects like impact of high medical bills on patients, cost of treatments and healthcare financing. The decision also involves medicos to...
India has rudimentary and fragmented primary health care (PHC) and family medicine systems, yet it also has the policy expectation that PHC should meet the needs of extremely large populations with slums and difficult to reach groups, rapid social and epidemiological transition from developing to developed nation profiles. Historically, the syste...
One of the most prominent vaccine scientists in the history of the vaccine industry -- a Merck scientist -- made a recording where he openly admits that vaccines given to Americans were contaminated with leukemia and cancer viruses. In response, his colleagues (who are also recorded here) break out into laughter and seem to think it's hilarious. ...
The International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, established by Prof. George Vithoulkas, announces its 2011 research award. A Scientific Committee will evaluate the submissions and award the prize of 2,000 euros in recognition for the best scientific article on Homeopathy. Preferably, articles must be published in peer reviewed journals and relate to homeopathy in a bro...
Advertising Standard Authority Since 1 March we’ve received a large number of complaints about claims on homeopathy websites, mostly about claims for the efficacy of homeopathy in diagnosing, treating or helping certain health or medical conditions (e.g. arthritis).
The high volume of compl...
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra has hike examination fees of BHM students more than four times.
The University has increased fees from Rs. 1500/- to Rs. 6000/-. Each year from 1 homoeopathic college about 2000 students appear in examination. The students are very much concerned from this decision of univers...
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In a major shift from the 60-year-old tradition in medical education in the country, those who wish to practice in future would have to follow up their MBBS course with a licentiate examination.
The idea is to allow only those who clear the licentiate India Medical Graduates(IMG)
NIH-supported population analysis examined records of 5 million California women
Pregnant women who are assaulted by an intimate partner are at increased risk of giving birth to infants of reduced weight, according to a population-level analysis of domestic violence supported by the National Institutes of Heal...
Farmers who use homoeopathy to treat their animals are scornful of comments made by politicians and the British Veterinary association (BVA) on the news that the EU might fund research into the approach.
David Eyles, a conventional farmer in Dorset keeping cattle and sheep, was initially very sceptical but has...
At 1 year, tumor necrosis factor inhibitors were associated with excess risk for serious infections in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF) inhibitors raise risk for infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. To quantitate this risk, Japanese investigators compared outco...
ISLAMABAD: The health authorities have discovered that more than 78 per cent of confirmed polio cases in Pakistan involved children who had been administered polio drops.
According to a report compiled by polio eradication section of the National Institute of Health, out of 136 polio cases rep...
Guest author, Dr Peter Fisher, Clinical Director at the Royal London Hospital of Integrated Medicine, examines the controversy surrounding homeopathy. Dr Fisher highlights the lack of consensus in interpretation of the evidence base for homeopathy and introduces the concept of 'plausibility bias' in homeopathy research as a suggested underlying c...
Lancet's editor calls fraudulent medical research a 'scar on the moral body of science'. But it's really just part of an entire system of fraud in medicine.
Medical science is rampant with fraud. At the Mayo Clinic, ten years of research that appeared to be leading towards harnessing the immun...
KOLKATA: Diagnosed with stage-IV pancreatic cancer in 2001, Minu Dutta was in such an advanced stage of the disease that neither surgery nor chemotherapy was possible, and her expected survival was only about three months. As a last resort, she enrolled herself into a clinical trial of psorinum therapy. Complete tumour remission was observed with...
The Planning Commission said it is framing up a blue print for a universal health insurance scheme which would provide a minimum cover to everyone in the country. "I think we do want a universal cess system. But whether it will be free for everybody...and free means Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY).
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Jorhat, Aug. 21: Medical institutes across the state will face a performance appraisal for the first time, with the Srimanta Sankaradeva University of Health Sciences of Assam, the new regulator of all such institutions, ready to conduct an audit for the 2010 academic session.
Established in 2009 with the obje...
Jorhat, Aug. 19/2011: The Assam government has given a special thrust to popularise alternative medicine and treatment and pushed for prescribing AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga and naturopathy, unani, siddha and homoeopathy) medicines in government hospitals.
In a directive to all the district joint di...
A homeopathy doctor of Agra has claimed that he had treated more than 8,00,000 patients so far and thereby claims the world record of Guinness.
His earlier Guinness record for treating 3,00,000 patients is still unbeaten by anybody.
The forty year old Parthasarathy ...
Pentavalent vaccine, Easyfive, removed from WHO list of prequalified vaccines 17 August 2011 - Following a routine audit conducted by a WHO team of one of the manufacturing sites of the vaccine manufacturer, Panacea Biotec, and the subsequent conclusions of an ad hoc committee convened by WHO, the pentavalent vaccine, Easyfive, has been...
Reality Check for Homeopaths Homeopathic projects highlighted in this DVD include those in Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Nepal, UK, and various African countries: Ghana, Benin, Kenya, Swaziland, Tanzania. Other projects mentioned are in India, the Solomon Islands, Malawi, and more! In this DVD you'll see projects, often driven by a single inspired indiv...