Foreign Medical Graduates staging a protest in January in Vijayawada. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO / GIRI KVS Wait for Permanent Registrations (PRs) for the pandemic-affected Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) continues even after an interim Medical Council, comprising six members, in the State has been formed. On March 24, when the State government issued a … Read more
Arguments about benefits always revolve around a single concept: fairness. There are timeless questions – who is deserving and who is not? It provokes sharp opinions and so is among the sharpest of domestic political decisions a government ever has to make. There is a direct if not immediate consequence of a decision taken in … Read more
The Paris peacock (Papilio paris) is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in India’s northeast. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The overexploitation of 25 species of host plants valued for their medicinal properties threatens the swallowtail butterflies in the forest habitats of a part of Assam often referred to as the “citrus belt of the … Read more
Priests performing Pushparchana at Kanaka Durga Temple in Vijayawada on Tuesday on the occasion of Ugadi. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri ‘Krodhi Nama Samvatsara Ugadi’, the Telugu New Year, was celebrated with traditional fervour in the city on Tuesday. Temple managements organised the festivities in a grand manner, and ‘Panchanga pathana’ was the main event … Read more
File picture of Congress General Secretary in-charge (Communications) Jairam Ramesh | Photo Credit: ANI The Congress on Tuesday said the liberal import policy of the Modi government is causing a “huge crisis” for the farmers in the country. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said soyabean is being sold by farmers in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan … Read more
In a wide ranging interview about his life after retiring as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci tells the BBC’s Katty Kay that 96% of the US population has a degree of immunity against the most recent Covid variant but urges people to get a booster shot that will … Read more
The new rules close the loopholes that enabled Dr He to evade regulations, which previously only applied to experiments on human beings in hospitals, for example for drug trials. The updated regulations cover all research institutions and everything relating to humans, including work on tissues, organs and embryonic cells. Source link
GPs say there is clear evidence of the negative impact of the cost of living on patients’ health. Source link
Medics working in some British hospitals face “slave-type” conditions, says a doctors’ group. Source link
