A shocking news came in recently for some doctors when the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) barred 21 doctors across the state from exhibiting their PG degrees obtained from a so-called American university. The council has further termed such courses to be ‘questionable’. The administrative body purported that the institute has been charging lakhs to grant […]

it is laudable that medical council of india has now recognised foreign qualifications like m.r.c p.; f.r.c.s. etc, which, hitherto, had the dubious distinction of not being valued in india. A postgraduate doctor with degrees like m.r.c.p.england is now eligible to seek an appointment as a teaching faculty in any indian medical college. similarly i […]

Elon Musk launches Neuralink, by Nick Statt@nickstatt Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is backing a brain-computer interface venture called Neuralink, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is still in the earliest stages of existence and has no public presence whatsoever, is centered on creating devices […]

Masud Husain and Mitul A. Mehta Attempts to improve cognitive function in patients with brain disorders have become the focus of intensive research efforts. A recent emerging trend is the use of so-called cognitive enhancers by healthy individuals. Here, we consider some of the effects – positive and negative – that current drugs have in […]