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AI and Patient Consent in India: Who Is Responsible?

Artificial intelligence is reshaping clinical decision-making in India, raising urgent questions about informed consent, accountability, and ethical responsibility when machines influence patient care. ...
Oct 06

Hospital Data Breaches in India: What Every Patient Needs to Know Right Now

Hospital data breaches in India are escalating, putting patient identity, medical history, and insurance data at serious risk. Awareness, proactive steps, and evolving legal frameworks ...
Sep 15

Importance of Patient Safety: Why Every Hospital in India Must Prioritize It

Patient safety in Indian healthcare requires systemic commitment to preventing avoidable harm through strong safety culture, structured protocols, staff training, and patient engagement. ...
Aug 08

The Digital Weak Spot in India’s Pharmacy Boom: Are India’s Online Pharmacies Secure Enough to Protect Your Prescriptions?

A prescription is a symbol of trust between doctor and patient. In the digital era, that trust extends to the platforms that deliver the medicine....
Feb 21

Clinical Errors outpaced by ‘Paperwork Errors’ - 18th Annual MedLegal Review 2026

The Institute of Medicine & Law hosted the 18th Annual MedLegal Review 2026 in collaboration with the D Y Patil (University) School of Law on Friday, ...
Feb 12

A Man’s Close Call With Death Raises Questions About Self-Medication and Digital Health

The story of this 45 year old Delhi man is about the fragile line between information and treatment, convenience and care, technology and responsibility....
Feb 03

Mumbai’s Toxic Air and the Day Accountability Finally Reached the Top

Mumbai has long prided itself on resilience. It survives floods, rebuilds after tragedies, and adapts to relentless pressure. Yet resilience should not mean endurance of ...
Jan 27

Treating in the Dark: How Uncertainty Became India’s Most Dangerous Prescription

If implemented thoughtfully, this diagnostic reset could mark a turning point where fewer delays, fewer unnecessary antibiotics, stronger surveillance, and better outcomes for patients who ...
Jan 22

DY Patil School of Law and the Institute of Medicine & Law Sign MoU to strengthen Medico-Legal Education

D Y Patil University School of Law (DYPSOL), Navi Mumbai, has entered into a strategic academic partnership with the Institute of Medicine & Law (IML) to ...
Jan 15

What If Your Lab Report Was Never Real? The Pathology Fraud Patients Never Suspected

Cases like this serve as reminders that healthcare cannot be treated like any other business. Lives are at stake, and shortcuts carry irreversible consequences....
Dec 26

A Cancer Battle Made Harder: The Rs 66 Lakh Judgment That Sends a Warning

Patients must know their rights, understand their policies, and recognise that unfair rejections can be challenged....
Dec 02

Cough Syrup or Chemical Cocktail? Inside the Toxic Crisis That’s Testing India’s Pharma Credibility Again

From the moment raw materials are sourced to the time a syrup bottle reaches a patient’s hand, there must be no blind spots. A ...
Nov 11

A Death in the Delivery Room: When Trust Turns into a Six-Year Legal Battle

The Sultanpur verdict will likely inspire more patients and families to come forward, demanding accountability for medical mishaps....
Nov 08

Breath Under Trial: How CAQM’s Failures Exposed Delhi’s Pollution Crisis

The capital city, with all its economic power and political influence, cannot continue to live in a haze of excuses....
Nov 07

The ORS That Isn’t: How Misleading Labels Threaten India’s Fight Against Child Dehydration

As the deadline for FSSAI’s final decision approaches, the country waits, some with anger, some with hope, and many with disbelief that such a ...
Oct 31

The Price of a Blind Eye: When Negligence Replaces Healing in Hospitals

Patients should not have to depend on consumer courts to get justice for medical errors. Preventive systems, continuous audits, and strict disciplinary actions should be ...
Oct 29

Eight Rupees for a Child’s Life: Madhya Pradesh’s Malnutrition Shame

No GDP number can justify a system where a baby’s life is worth less than a plate of food. The real progress of a ...
Oct 28

Worms in Antibiotics, Deaths from Cough Syrup: Has India’s Medicine Safety Lost Its Pulse?

Regulatory bodies must act with transparency, manufacturers must uphold integrity, and hospitals must maintain vigilance because behind every batch number is a child whose life ...
Oct 18

When Medicine Turns into Poison: The Coldrif Tragedy and the Unhealed Wounds of India’s Drug Safety System

As India observes the aftermath of yet another preventable disaster, one can only hope that this time, the outrage translates into reform....
Oct 14

When Ward Boys Become Technicians: How Mumbai’s Richest Civic Hospital Failed Its Patients

Human rights are not abstract ideals but living guarantees that every patient deserves safety, every hospital owes accountability, and every act of negligence carries a ...
Oct 10

Breathless in the Capital: The Ventilator Crisis Inside Delhi’s Hospitals

A healthcare system’s strength is measured not by the number of machines it owns but by how many of them actually work when a ...
Oct 10

Cough Syrups and Funerals: Why India Must Wake Up to a Brewing Pediatric Tragedy

Strengthened pharmacovigilance, faster forensic analysis, stricter licensing of manufacturers, and zero tolerance for sub-standard products must become non-negotiable priorities....
Oct 06

Negligence Behind Closed Doors: The Dark Reality of Patient Safety in Mumbai

Hospitals must invest not only in equipment and infrastructure but also in the training, empathy, and accountability of their staff....
Oct 06

A Cut That Went Too Deep: When Caesarean Surgery Leaves Behind a Lifetime of Pain

The woman continues her journey with resilience, supported by her family, but burdened by a disability that should never have happened....
Sep 22

When Hospitals Hide the Truth: Chhattisgarh’s Medical Negligence Case and 16 lakh compensation

For India’s healthcare sector, this case should not be seen as an isolated embarrassment but as a warning that the age of impunity is ...
Sep 15

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