The National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) is a unique institution that fosters and utilizes academic excellence as its resource to meet medical and social goals. It was registered as the Indian Academy of Medical Sciences in 1961 under Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 and inaugurated in New Delhi by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. Its journal, the Annals of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (ANAMS), is multi-disciplinary and Open Access in nature.
It publishes original investigations, reviews, case reports, letters, short communications and more from various branches of medicine and surgery including pediatrics, radiology, pharmacology, community medicine, parasitology, oncology, mental health, neurosurgery, neurology, endocrinology, genetics, and others.