Health Bulletin 03/ May/ 2025 - Video

Doctors' demand for holding the upcoming National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) examination in a single shift has now reached the Supreme Court.

The United Doctors' Front (UDF) has filed a petition with the Supreme Court. In the plea, UDF, a registered medical association representing thousands of doctors and medical aspirants, has urged the Apex Court to issue directions to conduct the upcoming NEET PG 2025 exam in a single shift across the country.

Researchers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi have achieved a major breakthrough in India’s diagnostic capabilities by developing a cutting-edge method to diagnose Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) - a rare and often misdiagnosed genetic disorder affecting the respiratory system - using transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

According to Dr Subhash Chandra Yadav from the Electron Microscope Facility, Department of Anatomy, AIIMS Delhi, this method is the first of its kind in India.

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Noting that the investigation is still at an early and sensitive stage, a local court in Kangan has rejected the bail plea of a doctor along with three others accused in a large-scale online investment scam, in which they allegedly cheated several people out of Rs 35 crore by offering false promises of high returns.

The four accused allegedly benefited from the money taken from the victims, with each of them keeping portions of the defrauded amount in their bank accounts, as per the Kashmir News Trust investigation report.

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While hearing a Public Interest Litigation that sought enforcement of a statutory code to regulate unethical marketing practices by pharma companies, the Supreme Court has recently observed that doctors across India should be directed to mandatorily prescribe only generic medicines to patients, instead of the brand names of medicines.

The top court bench orally remarked that if there was a statutory mandate for doctors to prescribe generic medicines, the issue of pharmaceutical companies allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe excessive or irrational drugs and push for high-cost, overpriced brands would be resolved, Live Law has reported.

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