Jaipur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday booked five senior Rajasthan government doctors for granting recognition to the nursing colleges which did not have standard facilities for the students, officials said. The doctors are professors at the medical colleges in the state and had inspected these nursing colleges as designated members of the Rajasthan Nursing Council for granting them recognition, they added. The authorities of five nursing colleges were also...
01:16 AM, May 30, 2012
Srinagar: With over 360 infants dying in the GB Pant hospital in Srinagar since January, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday directed immediate recruitment of doctors and nurses there on an ad hoc basis till full-time arrangements were made. "There is no need to wait for Public Service Commission to fill up the posts. I have directed the authorities concerned (state health and medical education department) to conduct...
04:49 AM, May 21, 2012
A parliamentary panel says some doctors are colluding with big pharmaceutical companies to sell unsafe drugs to the Indian consumers. ...
11:58 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: A Parliamentary committee has uncovered a nexus between doctors, government bodies and pharmacy companies to approve new drugs without the mandatory clinical trials. The doctors from top hospitals wrote to the country's Drug Controller General, to allow new drugs to be marketed, without clinical trials - a shocking lapse, highlighted in this Parliamentary standing committee report. Drug expert CM Gulati said, "All of them are compromised. We've got the...
06:16 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: With cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise, the government has finally agreed to make this a notifiable disease. That means, every doctor will have to register each case. At least a thousand Indians die of tuberculosis every day. The biggest threat at this point is what experts call totally drug resistant TB, which is incurable, and highly contagious. Fifteen cases have been confirmed in Mumbai alone. But...
10:03 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Country's premier institute All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), is facing staff crunch as only 400 doctors are functioning in the hospital against the sanctioned strength of 625 doctors. The hospital caters to 8,000 patients on a daily basis. Adding to the woes of the premier hospital, there have been instances where doctors have quit in the past couple of years for better pay and work opportunities...
03:20 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Malda (WB): Two infants died at Malda Medical College and Hospital, taking the toll of newborn death to 11 in a week, officials sources said on Tuesday. One baby died on Tuesday while another one died late on Monday night, officials said. The babies were brought to the hospital in a critical condition with respiratory problem and were underweight, doctors said. Earlier on April 6, nine babies had died in...
07:58 PM, Apr 10, 2012
KOCHI: Are doctors in Kerala dying young, mostly of life-style related ailments? Yes, if the Kerala chapter of the Indian Medical Association is to be believed. IMAs social security schemes show that 45 doctors died last year and over half of them were below 50. Most deaths were triggered by heart-related issues caused by excessive stress and in some cases, cancer. But the statistics pertain only to those doctors covered...
09:25 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Chicago: New research suggests doctors are contacting patients on Internet dating sites and engaging in other unprofessional online behaviour - and sometimes getting caught. That's according to a survey of most state medical boards that license and discipline doctors. Most boards said they'd received at least one complaint about unprofessional online behaviour; 25 per cent had received more than three complaints. The most common violation was asking patients out online....
10:37 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: Agitating MBBS students at AIIMS in New Delhi on Thursday suspended their indefinite relay hunger strike, called in the wake of the alleged suicide by a first-year student, after the premier medical hospital's authorities promised to look into some of their demands. "We have decided to suspend our strike as of now. The decision has been taken after the hospital administration gave us a written assurance that they...
08:46 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Caracas: President Hugo Chavez has raised serious doubts about whether he'll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant. Chavez told Venezuelans on Tuesday that doctors in Cuba had over the weekend found a two-centimeter (less than an inch) lesion in the same place where they removed a cancerous tumor last year. The...
06:11 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Houston: Three Indian-American doctors, who were derogatorily called "the Indians" and treated as "second-class citizens" by the CEO of a medical center in the US, have won a racial discrimination case in a Texas court. The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Citizens Medical Center in Victoria had violated the equal protection rights of the doctors. The court ruled in favour of Ajay Gaalla, Harish Chandna and Dakshesh...
01:51 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Los Angeles: It's become standard-operating procedure when a celebrity dies too young - investigators immediately go looking through their nightstand and medicine cabinet. That effort is well under way in the death of Whitney Houston, with investigators saying Wednesday they have subpoenaed records from the singer's doctors and pharmacies who dispensed medication found in her hotel room. The inquiries are routine in virtually all death investigations, Assistant Chief Coroner Ed...
12:05 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Junior Doctors' Association will be boycotting emergency services in 10 government medical colleges and hospitals across Andhra Pradesh on Saturday. This includes big government hospitals like Gandhi and Osmania in Hyderabad. The junior doctors have been on a protest for over 40 days now, demanding a hike in stipend and reduction in the number of years of compulsory rural service. Despite several rounds of talks, the government...
06:55 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Emergency services in government-run hospitals in Andhra Pradesh are likely to be hit with junior doctors on Friday deciding to intensify their strike. With the government ruling out talks with the striking junior doctors till they call off their protest, the medicos have decided to boycott emergency services from Friday evening. They said if the government failed to come forward for talks on their demands by 5 p.m., they...
03:51 PM, Feb 10, 2012
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