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January 01, 2016
The Medical Council of India (MCI) is a statutory body established in February 1934 under the Indian Medical Act, 1933. This act was repealed in 1956 and replaced by the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956.
November 06, 2015
India's health sector is facing a credibility crisis contributing to the growing trust deficit in the competence and integrity of our caregivers. This shift from trust to distrust within the span of two decades needs to be understood within the broader context of a rapidly changing macroeconomic ...
July 03, 2015
The article by Sunita VS Bandewar in the January–March issue does an excellent job of describing the controversy over informed consent in the SUPPORT clinical trial. As one of the authors of the duelling articles Bandewar cites, I commend the author's conclusions calling for disclosure not only o...
July 03, 2015
"Conflict of interest", now being commonly cited, is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgement or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest. Conflict of interest situations can be institutional or personal, and can stem fro...
July 03, 2015
The Indian Council of Medical Research had, on May 31, 2011, called for research proposals on severely acute malnourished (SAM) children to generate evidence for the development of practical and scalable regimens to medically rehabilitate children suffering from SAM, without serious complic...
October 04, 2015
Advances in information and communication technology have facilitated the development of online psychotherapy. This form of psychotherapy would provide the developing world with better access to professional mental healthcare services. At the same time, it is prudent to carefully consider the var...
October 04, 2015
Ragging is prevalent in higher educational institutes in Sri Lanka and the deaths of some new entrants in the past have been directly linked to physical and emotional torture caused by cruel acts of ragging. Although there are general anti-ragging rules in place, the effectiveness of these measur...
October 04, 2015
A recently published article on corruption in Indian healthcare in the BMJ has triggered a hot debate and numerous responses. We do agree that corruption in Indian healthcare is a colossal issue and needs to be tackled urgently. However, we want to highlight that corruption in healthcare...
October 04, 2015
The Hippocratic maxim, "Do no harm," is a long-standing fundamental principle of medical ethics, encompassing both medical practice and medical research. Yet, not enough attention is given to the implications of this principle for sectors related to medical research and practice, such as the phar...
October 04, 2015
Faith healing practices are common in the Indian subcontinent, for remedying physical as well as psychiatric disorders. Patients and/ or their family members often resort to such treatment, especially when dissatisfied with the usual medical care or when the patient has a terminal illness. The ap...