Medical internship is intended to be a supervised period of clinical training, exposure to the hospital setting and learning efficient patient care. However, in many Indian teaching hospitals, interns increasingly function as a “catch-all” workforce, informally ass...

Background: This paper examines the emerging challenge of genetic discrimination (GD) in India, through constitutional, judicial, and ethical perspectives. GD is a critical issue driven by increasing accessibility to genetic testing and insufficient legal safeguard...

A doctor in Madhya Pradesh was arrested when several children died, after consuming a toxin-contaminated cough syrup he had prescribed. The Indian Medical Association condemned the arrest, stating that the prescribing doctor could not have known about the contamina...

Humanitarian forensics is an expanding multidisciplinary field that uses forensic science to support humanitarian operations in post-conflict, catastrophe, and human-rights contexts. This commentary underscores the pivotal importance of forensic methodologies in th...