The Indian Medical Association has written to the Centre asking it to withdraw the gazette notification, which seeks to allow practitioners of ayurvedic medicine to perform 39 general surgic...

India’s largest body of modern doctors on Tuesday asked the Centre to withdraw last week’s gazette notification listing procedures that Ayurvedic surgeons could perform, announcing plans t...

Postgraduate doctors in Ayurveda may now be trained for and practise as many as 58 surgical procedures including abdominal, cataract and nasal surgeries and excisions of certain benign tumours under a...

The Congress leader in the Rajya Sabha, L. Hanumanthaiah, on Tuesday questioned why the government had decided to accord “institution of national importance” status to Gujarat institutions...

Tribals in Jharkhand have found their own indigenous way to improve and bolster their immunity to fight rising Covid cases in the state, as the community continues to trust in its herbs and shrubs and...

My journey in health and fitness began three years ago with a trek to Mt Kilimanjaro. I discovered my love for the mountains and trekking and wanted to get fitter and stronger to challenge myself furt...

Fairness is integral to economic and political welfarism. It is only apt that those who provide a service are compensated adequately for their knowledge and labour. Divya Pharmacy, an ayurvedic manufa...

Advertising, the maxim goes, is the art of convincing the consumer to buy something he or she does not need. Deception is thus an inescapable part of the trade. But such trickery can have dangerous ou...

Jawaharlal Nehru University has made sweeping curriculum changes, including the introduction of an Ayurveda Biology course due to be offered by its Sanskrit school. The changes were cleared at a meeti...

The present scenario is making us consider health-related issues far more seriously than ever before. The age-old Indian system of Ayurveda has always advocated maintaining one’s health. This can be...