The Crown Returns to Medical Sciences Optional. A doctor with Medical Sciences Optional once again tops the UPSC Civil Services Examination as Dr. Anuj Agnihotri secures AIR 1 in CSE 2025, echoing the historic achievement of Dr. Shena Aggarwal (AIR …
Euthanasia refers to the intentional ending of life of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or irreversible condition in order to relieve suffering. The term is derived from Greek: Eu – good Thanatos – death. Thus it literally means …
Dr. Anuj Agnihotri has secured All India Rank 1 in the UPSC Civil Services Examination 2025, bringing immense pride to the medical fraternity and aspirants preparing with Medical Sciences as their optional subject. An MBBS graduate from AIIMS Jodhpur, Dr. …
Biopharma Shakti represents a strategic push to scale up India’s biopharmaceutical manufacturing, research and clinical development, fostering innovation, reducing import reliance and positioning the country as a key global player in advanced medicines. Here are the key highlights of India’s …
The Union Budget 2026–27 accords strong priority to the health sector, marking a decisive step towards building a resilient, inclusive and future-ready healthcare system in line with the vision of Viksit Bharat@2047. Overall Allocation & Long-Term Trend ₹1,06,530.42 crore allocated …
National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (NAP-AMR) (2025-2029) One Health Approach Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) refers to the condition when the routinely used medicines like antibiotics, antivirals, antiparasitic drugs, or antifungals become ineffective for treating the respective organisms. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) …
‘Kilkari’ (meaning ‘a baby’s gurgle’), is a centralized interactive voice response (IVR) based mobile health service which delivers free, weekly, time-appropriate 72 audio messages about pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare directly to families’ mobile phones from the second trimester of pregnancy until the child …
The National TB Call Centre – Ni-kshay SAMPARK (1800-11-6666) is managed by CTD and is operational all 7 days in a week, from 7 am to 11 pm. The operation of Ni-kshay SAMPARK commenced in May 2018 and is currently …
India has adopted multiple mobile-based digital health solutions to strengthen service delivery, surveillance and behaviour change communication under the National Health Mission and Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. 1. Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (RMNCH+) i) Mother and Child Tracking …
Malaria Surveillance Indicators (Malareometric measurements) In the pre-eradication era, the magnitude of the malaria problem in a country used to be determined mostly from the reports of the clinically diagnosed malaria cases and the classical malariometric measures, e.g., spleen rate, …
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