Sixty people tested positive for swine flu in New Delhi on Sunday, taking the number of people infected by the Influenza A (H1N1) virus in the capital to 420, an official said. ...
08:25 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The death of an engineering college student, who was 'received dead' by a private hospital in Cuttak, has sparked a controversy as family members of the deceased allege that it was a pre-planned murder. Mihir Naik, a third year BTech student of a Bhubaneswar-based private engineering college was reported missing since Thursday night. ...
11:57 AM, Feb 17, 2013
A male pregnancy is definitely a medical sensation grabbing headlines worldwide. A 15-year-old Kazakh boy was recently declared pregnant, given a handful of erroneous medical prescriptions and a bill for 50,000 tenge ($330). ...
12:56 PM, Feb 16, 2013
The Barcelona marksman spent Monday night in hospital before being sent home, only to return due to intense pain on Thursday for further medical care. ...
05:29 PM, Feb 15, 2013
A 10th class student Manpreet Kaur was set on fire by three women who suspected the girl of stealing a mobile phone. Kaur suffered 85 per cent burns and is in a critical condition in Patiala's Rajendra Nagar hospital. ...
11:07 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Three armed men broke out a female patient from one of Moscow's most famous psychiatric hospitals in a daring raid believed to have been led by the woman's fiance. The woman, Anna Pavlenkova, reported to be 32 or 34-years-old, escaped from the Gannushkin Hospital after a visit from the three men. ...
11:12 AM, Feb 14, 2013
Almost four months since she was shot in the head, Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai has been released from a UK hospital where she was being treated after being attacked by the Taliban. Yusufzai had made a good recovery from a five-hour operation she underwent on her skull and ear at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. ...
08:56 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to Union Health Secretary and Medical Superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital in the national capital on a complaint alleging that more than 8,200 children died at the institution in the last five years. The notice was sent on the basis of an RTI query which revealed that of the 18 ventilators available for children in the hospital, five were not functional. ...
07:21 PM, Feb 08, 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
A case of sexual assault was registered against unidentified persons after a six-month-old girl was brought in a profusely bleeding state at a civic-run hospital in Mumbai, police said on Thursday. ...
06:04 PM, Feb 07, 2013
A child was killed and three others were critically injured in a mishap on the Yamuna Expressway on Friday. The mishap occurred after vehicles piled up on the road due to thick fog. Eleven cars were involved in the pile-up. ...
03:57 PM, Feb 01, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the state government and health department to issue a directive to hospitals to attend to all trauma patients. This also applies to the private hospitals in the city too. ...
01:20 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Legendary baul singer Gaur Khyapa, who taught philosophy at Vassar and Brown universities and sang with the likes of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and Janis Joplin, passed away in a road accident near Shantiniketan in West Bengal. ...
07:41 PM, Jan 28, 2013
The Delhi government has come up with new Medico Legal Case (MLC) guidelines for rapid response by hospitals to examine sexual assault victims, an official said on Friday. ...
12:41 AM, Jan 26, 2013
The three-member Justice JS Verma Committee after submitting its report on the changes recommended in laws dealing with crimes against women pointed out that poor governance was one of the main reasons for the rising crime graph. ...
02:31 PM, Jan 24, 2013
A court here on Monday upheld the plea of former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala, awarded 10 years jail in a teachers recruitment scam and is currently hospitalised, for a private attendant. Special Central Bureau of Investigation Judge Vinod Kumar allowed Chautala's plea seeking personal help to look after him in the hospital and asked CBI to first verify the private attendant's identity. ...
08:47 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Attributing crib deaths to underweight and malnourished babies, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday labelled the influx of patients from neighbouring Bihar as a problem. "You know what our problem is? Many people from Bihar bring their children for treatment to hospitals in Malda and Murshidabad (districts)," Mamata said while inaugurating a fair price medicine shop here. ...
05:20 PM, Jan 22, 2013
A unique initiative has been undertaken by a Pune Doctor. Following the Beed female infanticide cases, Dr Ganesh Rakh of Pune's Medicare multispeciality hospital has stopped charging any fees to deliver a girl child. The birth of a girl child is celebrated in the hospital by distributing sweets and by treating the mother and child for free. Till date, the hospital has given free treatment to 135 women and their...
10:02 AM, Jan 22, 2013
In a barbaric sexual assault, six men allegedly gangraped a woman after tying up her husband on the premises of a district hospital in Mayurbhanj, Odisha. The 25-year-old tribal woman of Dantiamuha village had gone to the hospital on Sunday along with her husband to see her ailing brother, who was admitted to the hospital following an accident, police said on Monday. ...
10:19 PM, Jan 21, 2013
