INDIAN PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY

NMC warns docs over conversion therapy to LGBTQ

Offering conversion therapy to LGBTQIA+ youth will amount to "professional misconduct", National Medical Commission has warned doctors. The therapy to change a person's sexual orientation is banned in many countries but is offered by some doctors in India.

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Docs unhappy with Mental Health Bill

It was four decades after Independence, in 1987, that India passed a Mental Health Act that had taken nine years to design. Nearly three decades later, the administration is considering to update the Act in the form of Mental Health Care Bill, 2013.
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“There is no health without brain health. Our brain is our most amazing and complex organ and its functioning is most closely linked to the health of the whole human being,” said Dr Chandrashekhar Meshram, past president of Indian Academy of Neurology and member of constitution committee of World Federation of Neurology (WFN).