Science and service have retreated under the onslaught of the market.

To discuss the devastating deaths of as many as 60 children in 72 hrs in Gorakhpur, MIRROR NOW caught up with Dr. Sanjay Nagral and others

Strange hoardings made big news in Mumbai, announcing: “Honest opinion; no commission to doctors." attacking the practice of cuts and commissions in the referral of patients in Indian healthcare.

This doctor and IMA member is not joining a Chalo Dilli march and Pen Down protest against violence and other persecution of doctors.

A couple and a bike rider injured in a road accident on Marine Drive, Mumbai on Tuesday night were bundled off to a hospital in a cab by a cop who did not even accompany them, raising questions on the emergency protocol followed in the city.

Despite increased specialisation and technology, surgical care in the world’s most populous region is inequitable and remains inaccessible to most people.

Medical associations, hospitals and pharma companies have no interest in making healthcare affordable

Unfortunately, the WMA’s standing has fallen under a cloud with the recent inauguration of Ketan Desai, an Indian urologist, as its president on 21 October 2016.

The MCI is also guilty of inaction on numerous ethical transgressions that accompany healthcare in India and of hounding whistleblowers... but there's hope for a cure.

This piece touches three closely linked concepts and raises complex ethical and critical issues that must be faced by patients, their families and healthcare providers.

Pakistan's dismal public health system is rife with mismanagement and a paucity of resources. Amidst this shambolic system, one hospital in Karachi has been providing specialised healthcare to millions. Free of charge.

The citizen is being shortchanged by the medical fraternity, but try telling the IMA that

Aruna Shanbaug's death has again opened up the euthanasia conversation in the public domain. For a health care discourse often dominated by inane news, this is not such a bad thing,' says Dr Sanjay Nagral.

Indian citizens need reminding that growing commercialisation in healthcare and medical education is linked to the corruption they experience in their healthcare encounters,

Reminiscences of standing upon the shoulders of a giant in medicine - the indomitable and larger-than-life Head of the Dept. of Anatomy, Dr. ML Kothari, and his influence on my life.

This cult of speed reaches its crowning glory during that peculiar Indian spectacle called medical camps. Medical camps are an activity in which doctors from cities travel to underserved areas, often on weekends, where the poor are then herded in hundreds for deliverance, photo-ops and freebies.

As Asia surges forward in attempting to meet the rising demand for replacing failed organs, efforts across the region to develop viable deceased donor programmes are visible. According to reports, these efforts have met with limited success.

HOTA, along with its amendments, was a step forward in recognising concepts such as brain death. Nevertheless, there are numerous ethical challenges still to be resolved, particularly with regard to consent, incentives to donors and families, and equitable distribution of donated organs.

One would think that there has been an abrupt spurt in corrupt practices or a major scandal. Nothing of that sort has happened. However, there have been some interesting developments for the focus to shift back to what is really a very old affliction.