In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court of India dismissed a plea by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Monday for a patent on its cancer drug Glivec, paving way for more affordable life saving cancer drugs. "Generic companies will have a levy that will allow them to survive in India for a considerable period of time," said Anand Grover, lawyer, Cancer Patients Aid Association. ...
02:14 PM, Apr 01, 2013
CJ Yatin Deshpande with his HairAid initiative, donate hair for wigs for cancer survivors. One young girl shaves off her hair, for a cancer survivor. ...
03:51 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Paris: After the news of a baby girl who was effectively cured of HIV in the US, a new study reports a functional cure for adults with HIV/AIDS, who were treated very early. Scientists in France said they selected 14 patients, who were treated within 10 weeks of being infected with HIV. They received treatment for three years but after that, the patients did not need antiretroviral treatment anymore. The...
07:55 AM, Mar 24, 2013
With the death of one more person, the number of swine flu deaths in Indore has gone up to twelve since January 2013, a medical officer said on Saturday. A 35-year-old man from Sukhaliya Colony, who was admitted to CHL hospital here on March 20, died of swine flu on Friday, the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) official Dr GL Sodhi said. ...
03:48 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Police in Bihar are searching for eight doctors charged with dereliction of duty following complaints they abandoned survivors who needed medical assistance during devastating floods more than four years ago, police said. ...
05:52 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The disabled in India are subjected to widespread discrimination and inhuman treatment, particularly sexual abuse and torture, a European Union-sponsored study conducted by rights organisations said on Monday. ...
12:40 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Today is World Cancer Day - a day to raise awareness in the fight against the cancer. Every year, 1 million people are diagnosed with cancer in India and a third of them die every year because of late diagnosis and lack of timely treatment. ...
09:00 AM, Feb 04, 2013
With near about five lakh cancer patients, West Bengal accounts for half of the country's total cancer cases, a senior doctor said on Sunday. "West Bengal has five lakhs cancer patients. 70,000 cases of cancer are detected every year in the state out of which 35,000 die annually due to cancer," Medical Director, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute Ashis Mukhopadhyay said. ...
04:27 AM, Feb 04, 2013
A young doctor was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court for raping a 30-year-old woman patient in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital at Navi Mumbai. Thane Additional Sessions Judge RD Sawant handed out the punishment to 26-year-old Dr Vishal Vanne, who was also fined with Rs 1,000 along with another three-month imprisonment in the 2010 case. ...
06:59 PM, Jan 29, 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
Dr MS Kanwar, senior consultant, respiratory medicine at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on why India is not being able to curb the incidence of TB cases. Q. How bad is the situation MDR-TB and is there any possible cure coming in the near future? Asked by: ketan72 A. MDR-TB situation is getting worse in India. It is difficult to treat because of increased number of...
05:30 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Mysore: Better healthcare and increased awareness have helped control the spread of HIV/AIDS, once feared as an epidemic, according to doctors attending to AIDS victims at the Asha Kiran Hospital here, Karnataka's only specialised hospital for treating the disease that has 6,400 registered cases from the state at present. The vulnerability of rural masses, however, remains high. In 2006, UNAIDS estimated that there were 5.6 million people with AIDS in...
02:56 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Diabetes is a chronic disease for which there is no cure. It is a major cause of illness and premature death. But the good news is that Type 2 of diabetes is both preventive and curable. Find out what precautions one can take to prevent the disease. ...
09:39 PM, Nov 11, 2012
The dengue menace continues in Bihar. Over 300 patients have been admitted to government hospitals so far and 18 people have lost their lives. Many more patients have been admitted to private hospitals and as per rough estimates, the figure could well be over 1,000. Only three blood banks in Patna have the facility to segregate blood platelets crucial for transfusions. The administration claims it's on war footing, but these ...
11:35 AM, Oct 31, 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: There's new hope for terminal heart patients, with a new pumping device promising to provide rest to the worn-out heart and even recharge it - adding years and quality to a patient's life. The Ventricular Assist Device (VAD), or Heartmate II, is surgically inserted between the chest and upper abdomen and is powered by a battery. The titanium device is connected to a monitor worn outside the body...
10:57 AM, Oct 01, 2012
A day after Yuvraj Singh Shines on the field, CNN-IBN focuses on the thousands he has bowled over by winning the battle against cancer. ...
08:42 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Kolkata: The dengue outbreak in West Bengal has affected over 1,000 people though the number of deaths remains at five, according to state health department data on Saturday. The total number of people afflicted with the mosquito-borne disease has mounted to 1,125, of whom 720 are from worst-hit Kolkata. All the five deaths have been reported from the metropolis. The neighbouring North 24 Parganas district has recorded 183 dengue cases....
12:22 AM, Sep 09, 2012
Kolkata: Criticising civic bodies run by both her Trinamool Congress as also the opposition Left Front for negligence in combating dengue, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday used a central team report to pull up private hospitals for conducting "haphazard" blood tests. Quoting the report of a visiting team of the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Banerjee said: "They have mentioned that there is haphazard use...
01:34 AM, Sep 08, 2012
