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MCI code of ethics to become a statute
In a significant initiative to ensure utmost transparency in the medical profession, the Union government is going to provide statutory status to the code of medical ethics contained in the Indian Medical Council Act and in the process is adding a few new clauses.

Advertising is cool for new generation medicos
Even as the Union government is planning to convert the MCI’s code of ethics into a statute to clamp down on unethical medical practices, a debate has erupted among the medical community on whether medicos should be allowed to advertise or express themselves in the mass media.

Hospinews

A centre of excellence in the making for burns management
The Indian Burns Research & Training Institute (IBR&TI), promoted by Indian Burns Research Society was inaugurated last month in Mumbai.

KOB to tap Indian market
Karl Otto Braun (KOB) Medical Textiles of Germany is one of the reliable names in the manufacturing of medical bandages.

Conference on infection control held at AIIMS
With an objective to discuss the challenges facing hospital infection, The Hospital Administration Department of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, had organised a National Conference on Infection Control in Indian Hospitals - Challenges and Strategies (HICCON-2001), from October 17-19, 2001.

MEDICA 2001 to be held this month
With preparations for world’s largest medical exhibition, MEDICA 2001, nearly complete, organisers are hoping to draw in a crowd of nearly 3500 exhibitors and over 120,000 visitors.

Experts call for incentives to private players
The National Health Policy unveiled by the Centre recently, after a gap of 18 years seems not to have lived up to the expectations of industry people.

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Highlights

Editor Speak
Advertising Dilemmas
For some time now the Indian medical profession was aware through its associations about the imminent changes to be brought about in the code of medical ethics contained in the Indian Medical Council Act.

Interview
 A marriage of tradition and technology
India is the only country that has different systems of medicine like ayurveda, unani, homeopathy, naturopathy and yet allopathy is the mainstream of healthcare care delivery in the country.

 
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