The health department will appoint a security adviser for each of the five government medical colleges in the city and assign them specific duties.The advisers will be chosen from among retired assist...

Every year, lakhs of students go to Kota, a city in Rajasthan, with a dream. A dream of being tutored at the best coaching institutes there and, thereafter, crack the competitive exam for entrance to ...

The number of cadaver organ transplants has not picked up in Calcutta as expected by doctors and state health department officials, and they blame it on a combination of factors.The factors include in...

A half-baked idea, if implemented into law, can have catastrophic consequences, especially if it stands to affect the health and lives of millions. This is, perhaps, one of the driving fears behind th...

Three more people died of Japanese encephalitis in Assam on Thursday, taking the toll to 48 since January this year. With the toll mounting, heads rolled.The state health department transferred the ch...

Assam health and finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the work on three more medical colleges in Assam will begin from next month.“The allotment of work for the three medical colle...

The Union health ministry said on Tuesday that it could take three years to operationalise the common nationwide final-year exit exam for undergraduate medical students under the new regulatory struct...

Around 65 per cent of the patients turning up at the medical colleges in Calcutta could have been treated at medical colleges and other hospitals in the districts, senior doctors said.Most referrals t...