India needs its Ayurveda graduates, including surgeons, to improve the common man’s access to decent health care

What happens to doctors who travel to the kingdom of the sick? Do they notice small things they have overlooked when treating patients? How do they behave as patients? And does an illness make an impact on their perception of disease?

The results of a large multi-centre ICMR-led plasma trial were released yesterday. It shows no benefit in terms of reduction of mortality or progression from moderate to severe disease. What is helpful is to realise that this is exactly how science has progressed. Not only by successes but also recognising failures and moving on.

Given the complexity of medical knowledge and the fear of disease, the ‘all knowing doctor' approach is understandable. However, a cocksure doctor doling out instant advice with an air of finality may be more optics than substance. A doctor who knows that he doesn’t know and is willing to admit it, may be acting in your best interest

In March this year, an IAS officer in Jharkhand gave birth to her baby at a government hospital. That this made front page news nationally and that too valorised, is not surprising. Because in India, it is an unusual act. Almost a brave one

With a celebrity, one wonders whether the attention is on the message or the person. The surrounding spectacle drowns out the message. Even worse, the medium becomes the message. And illness a metaphor for herocentric formula films

India has one of the largest railway networks, with a high incidence of railway-related accidents and fatality rate of 150/million passengers per year. We evaluated the pre-hospitalization period, pattern of injury and outcome of train accident victims in a metropolitan city.

Why does a city of this size, resources and claim to modernity not have a developed, centralised system that co-ordinates from a nodal point where updated information on the availability.

दुनियाभर में कोरोनावायरस (Coronavirus) का कहर बढ़ता ही जा रहा है. भारत में भी यह बीमारी तेजी से फैल रही है. इस वैश्विक महामारी से निपटने के लिए NDTV ने एक खास कार्यक्रम आयोजित किया, जिसका नाम 'टेलीथॉन' है. इस कार्यक्रम का मुख्य लक्ष्य भूख के सताए बेघरों के लिए राशि जुटाने का था. इस कार्यक्रम में जसलोक अस्पताल के डॉ संजय नागराल ने कहा कि मजदूरों को स्वास्थ्य सुविधा उपलब्ध करवा पाना बड़ी चुनौती है.

Medical education in India has been beset so far by scandal. Can the new National Medical Commission reform education and regulation to enable better healthcare?

Violence against doctors is a symptom and not the disease. Structural and policy changes in India’s hospitals, and not increased security, may help in controlling it

Dr. Sanjay Nagral ‐ A surgeon cum novelist whose career in medicine has been a strong influence in her fiction.

The challenge for Ayushman Bharat will be to spur systemic change in healthcare.

A perspective on one of modern medicine's great conundrums: Is dying an event or a process? Does everyone die in the same way, or are there different ways of dying? Truly a subject of profound and perennial philosophical and religious enquiry.

This hard-hitting volume shows a mirror to society and, more specifically, to those associated with the health sector on how healers, in many cases, are shifting shape to becoming predators

Doctors, barring exceptions, are complicit in the commercialisation of healthcare.

In the absence of a systemic overhaul, the CC judgment on passive euthanasia stands to be either potentially misused or remain ineffective.

Dr. Sanjay Nagral | International Seminar on 'The landmark Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Opportunities and Challenges’ | New Delhi | March 24-25, 2018

Challenge after euthanasia verdict is to ensure dignity to the poor.

While there is political consensus that a robust healthcare system is needed, it is rarely at the centre of electoral politics in India.