Dr Ravi Kannan, winner of this year's Magsaysay award, has been recognized for his work in providing holistic healthcare and cancer care to the underserved in India.

NMC’s recently released ethics code asked doctors to prescribe generic medicines. Quality low-cost generics are key to healthcare. That doctors are uneasy tells its own story

India has more than six lakh medical representatives. They are described as the interface between doctors and pharma. Traditionally graduates from a variety of backgrounds took up this job but…

The crematorium wasn’t very far. It was at a time of day convenient to me. But I dilly-dallied, sending several non-committal messages

The diversity and inequity of healthcare in India means there is no one "classic" Indian doctor. Recognizing this diversity is important to improve healthcare for both doctors and citizens.

Seeking a second opinion is currently a cloak and dagger act. Laden with fear and guilt. We take multiple opinions in many aspects of our lives without using this loaded term. It is perfectly understandable in healthcare, which involves life and death

A few weeks ago there was news that resident doctors from JJ Hospitals’s ophthalmology department had collectively complained against their current and ex head for harassment and lack of training it initially sounded like an intradepartmental fracas.

The evidence suggests that all-encompassing blanket testing when you are healthy doesn’t help. Many countries don’t promote or offer them. No scientific organisation recommends them. What’s instead recommended is selective targeted testing

How do we define an emergency? Why does the government not do its job? Why should private hospitals treat emergencies? Who will pay? Who will take responsibility to transfer patients? What if people demand emergency treatment

The science of modern medicine now has huge knowledge about the ill effects of sudden withdrawal of addictives but the world of modern hospitals has not been able to come to terms with the challenge of stopping them suddenlyRavi was my patient for a long time

Does reflection on the year gone by contribute to a better life in the year that follows? Do we collectively learn to improve our daily lives? The rhetoric apart, such questions are too ambitious without the context of period, place and culture.

In this video, Dr. Sanjay Nagral speaks about how doctors help increase revenue for hospitals?

Measles is much more infective to others than Covid. But its resurgence has been seen across the world in those whose lives and livelihoods were uprooted by Covid. Who may have got the Covid vaccine but missed the measles vaccine in the chaos

In this video, he speaks about the pharma companies influencing the doctors to prescribe certain drugs and how gifts from these companies influence the decision making of doctors in terms of what medicines to prescribe.

Dr. Sanjay Nagral is an expert gastrointestinal surgeon with a career spanning three decades, considered among the top 10 gastroenterologists in India. He performed a vital role in the first successful liver transplant in India.

The death of 70 children due to adulterated cough syrup made by an Indian pharma company has hit headlines. The fact that these were children who must have been given a syrup for what’s likely to have been a harmless cough has made this case particularly heart-breaking.

Joining host Sidharth Bhatia on The Wire Talks this week is Dr. Sanjay Nagral. The duo speaks about whether pharma incentives to doctors harm or help the patients, massive promotional budgets' effect on the medical segment and the common man, and more.

The relationship between the medical profession and pharmaceutical industry has provoked intense scrutiny and attempted regulation across the globe. India is no exception

What Made-in-Ukraine doctors say about our medical education

The Ramdev-IMA skirmish is more of a turf war based on perceived insults, than about upholding science or attacking obscurantism. It is a sideshow of a fake quarrel that has distracted us again from the crisis in healthcare that India faces.