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Routine childhood vaccination linked to improved schooling among adults in India

Routine childhood vaccination has been found to have links to improved schooling among adults in India amongst a wealth of other benefits, according to a study assessing educational attainment.  The study published in the Social Science & Medicine journal found that routine immunisation in childhood could be linked to improved educational outcomes among adults in …

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Physiotherapy boon at Goa Medical College

The Goa Medical College and Hospital in Bambolim is to establish a postgraduate course in physiotherapy, responding to a reported rising demand for the practice in India.  A memorandum of understanding will be signed between the College and the Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences University, based in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.  “Physiotherapy is beneficial to those who …

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“The difference between life and death” – Vice President stresses the importance of emergency medicine

At a recent conference in New Delhi, Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu stressed the importance of emergency medicine, calling its availability “the difference between life and death”.  India played host to the tenth Asian Conference on Emergency Medicine in the national capital, bringing together more than 2,000 emergency medicine specialists from 32 countries. The Vice …

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At last, NMC members have been chosen

25 National Medical Commission (NMC) members have been chosen, inching the Union Health Ministry closer to realising its overhaul of the medical education sector in India.  “25 part-time members, including ten vice-chancellors (VCs) from different states, nine representatives from the state medical councils (SMCs) and four members for the four autonomous boards, were selected,” announced …

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No more pharmacy colleges – for now

No more pharmacy colleges will be established in India for the next few years (with a few exceptions), as such institutes proliferate.  There are more than 3,000 colleges teaching more than one lakh undergraduates nationwide, according to Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) president Dr Suresh Bhojraj. “[This] is adequate to meet the country’s need and …

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Emergency care at every medical college

Every medical college in India will be home to an emergency care department by 2022, it has been announced. The news comes as a boon for emergency medicine, the status of which in India has long been scrutinised as a driver behind the high death toll due to physical trauma in the country.  In the …

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More government medical colleges on the way

The establishment of 75 new government medical colleges has been approved and are expected to be set up within the next few years.  The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) gave the nod to the new facilities on Wednesday, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. It comes as part of a five-year-long government push …

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The Modi dyslexia row hints at a much wider stigma

When it comes to dyslexia, there is no shortage of stigma in India. Revealing testimonies from sufferers highlight how often the problem is handled poorly – if it is handled at all. “I felt like the stupidest person in the world growing up,” one sufferer said. “My parents and teachers were terrible to me because …

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NEET exam reforms dropped after health ministry plea

India’s Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has dropped plans to reform medical and dental entrance examinations after the intervention of the health ministry. Reforms proposed by the HRD Ministry would have seen the Entrance Test (NEET) being conducted twice a year under the ambit of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and through online …

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A suicide crisis among Indian students

On April 19, seventeen-year-old Kadali Shanmukha was found dead.  The previous day, Bheem Singh had also been found dead.  What links the two deaths is that both were suicides and that Shanmukha and Singh were both students. Shanmukha, aged just seventeen, was a senior intermediate student at the Bhashyam Junior College in Kakinada. Singh was …

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