To what's being called India's hidden epidemic, neurological disabilities hit 3.5 million people every year. The Kessler Foundation estimates there are 7 cases in India every minute, with people left unable to function on their own, even walk, like in spinal cord or traumatic brain injuries. ...
09:46 AM, Mar 18, 2013
On World Kidney Day, Dr Sanjay K Agarwal, the head of the department of Nephrology at AIIMS joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the subject. ...
07:00 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A 27-year-old pharmacology student was found dead in her hostel room in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Tuesday, police said. They suspect it to be a case of suicide. ...
04:14 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday announced, as part of the Union Budget 2013-14, that medical colleges under six All India Institute of Medical Sciences-like institutions will start functioning in 2013. ...
12:38 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The Sikar gangrape survivor is being shifted to AIIMS in Delhi for treatment. The 11-year-old girl is in a critical condition and is being moved from Jaipur where she has undergone 14 surgeries since she was gangraped in August 2012. ...
12:24 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The decision to move the Sikar gangrape survivor to AIIMS in Delhi has been put on hold by doctors at the JK Lone hospital in Jaipur. The family of the survivor says it has not been consulted by the doctors. ...
10:42 AM, Feb 08, 2013
The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has quashed an ENT surgeon's selection to AIIMS under orthopaedically handicapped category despite scoring less than the qualifying marks, saying such relaxation was not mentioned while inviting applications. ...
06:01 PM, Jan 31, 2013
The doctors said their foremost concern is the survival of the victim and that she comes out of trauma. ...
04:39 PM, Dec 20, 2012
A team of doctors attending the 23-year-old said that she withstood the operation on Wednesday night "very well". ...
04:27 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Calling the Delhi gangrape victim a "brave girl", a team of doctors attending the 23-year-old said that she withstood the operation on Wednesday night "very well". "She is fighting it out. We are hopeful that she would come out of it," said Dr Mishra of AIIMS Trauma Centre. Dr Mishra is working on the trauma management plan for the victim with doctors of Safdarjung hospital - where the woman is...
12:34 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad on Saturday announced that a National Cancer Institute (NCI) would come up in the AIIMS-2 campus at Badhsa village in Haryana, which would be an even bigger facility than the Tata Cancer Institute, Mumbai. ...
12:49 AM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi that has been hit by a dengue scare with over 600 cases and still counting. The latest victim is Vineet Choudhary, the deputy director of AIIMS, one the the country's best known hospitals. Choudhary is currently undergoing treatment. He is one of the 30 odd patients being admitted each day. Doctors claim the number of patients have doubled this year. But in a typical blame-game, state and...
08:02 AM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with ever-increasing patient inflow, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) plans to have a separate facility to cater to out-patients inside its sprawling campus. The country's premier institute also started work on its campus in Jhajjar in Haryana and outreach OPD services are being made available for patients. "We have increasing number of out-patients and we plan to have a separate facility to cater to...
03:41 AM, Oct 14, 2012
New Delhi: A nine-year-old girl died of dengue on Saturday in the Sangam Vihar area of Delhi. This is the first case of death caused by dengue in the national capital this year. The girl was admitted in a government hospital last week, but after her condition worsened, she was shifted to AIIMS. The figures by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi say that there have been approximately 60-70 cases of...
09:02 AM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj may not be able to attend the three-day Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Executive and National Council meeting beginning on Wednesday as she is indisposed and recuperating in the AIIMS. Sources close to Swaraj said she was admitted to AIIMS on September 16 as was suffering from viral fever and some other complications. A diabetic, Swaraj has undergone several tests as per...
05:54 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Patna: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Patna, on Tuesday formally began classes for 50 MBBS students at its spacious campus in Phulwarisharif locality in the state capital. State Health Minister Ashwani Chaube and director of AIIMS, Patna Girish Kumar Singh presided over the inaugural function at its campus. Fifty students comprising 37 boys and 13 girls began their course. Four subjects including anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and community...
03:19 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: Under pressure from its key ally Trinamool Congress, the Centre has agreed to resolve the issue of relocating a new AIIMS-like premier medical institute in Nadia district instead of Raiganj in West Bengal. There has been a three-year tussle between the Centre and the West Bengal government over the proposed site of new AIIMS-like institute with the state government seeking a change in its original location. During the...
04:23 AM, Sep 12, 2012
Bangalore: With the Lok Sabha giving its nod to the NIMHANS Bill, 2010, on Tuesday, the Bangalore-based institute has become the first of its kind in the country to receive the status of institute of national importance. The Rajya Sabha had already given its green signal to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro- Sciences (NIMHANS) Bangalore Bill, 2012. Our institute is now on a par with the All...
02:46 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: Despite continuing protests by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over coal block allocations, the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill to set up more AIIMS-like institutes in the states. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2012, replaces an ordinance which allowed the six AIIMS-like institutes to become operational from September 15. The bill also gives the central government authority to establish more AIIMS-like institutes....
02:15 AM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: Amid din over CAG report on coal block allocation issue, the Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a bill that would allow the government to set up AIIMS-like institutes across the country by a notification. The All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2012, will replace an Ordinance which allowed the six AIIMS-like institutes to become operational from September 15. The bill also confers powers upon the Centre to...
01:30 PM, Aug 30, 2012
