Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, undergoing medical treatment for the last three days, was today discharged from the Belle Vue Clinic after agreeing to advice by doctors to take rest. "The chief minister was insisting on returning home since morning and her doctors decided to discharge her with a request to her to take rest," clinic's CEO PK Tondon told PTI.
Quoting the chief minister he said she shouldered much responsibility and she be allowed to return home. The medical team advised her to rest for at least two weeks.
A medical bulletin issued earlier in the day said that the chief minister was clinically better and her vital parameters had stabilised, but pain still persisted. A ten-member team headed by Subroto Maitra attended on the chief minister since her admission on April 10 after arriving from Delhi.
The chief minister fell ill after she was heckled and Finance minister Amit Mitra manhandled by SFI members when she was entering Yojna Bhavan in New Delhi a day earlier....
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08:45 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was hospitalised after complaints of breathing problem and palpitation, has been advised total rest by doctors who described her condition on Thursday as stable. Doctors at the premier Belle Vue clinic, where Banerjee is undergoing treatment, said she had pain in her shoulder and waist and was under close surveillance with an advice not to do any official work for the time...
05:43 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was taken to a premier private clinic in Kolkata for a check up after she returned from Delhi on Wednesday. "She was taken to the clinic for a check up," a senior Trinamool Congress functionary told PTI here. Panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee, who returned from Delhi along with Banerjee, told PTI that the chief minister was taken to the clinic, but did not...
06:20 PM, Apr 10, 2013
A medical assistant told a jury on Tuesday that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies during unorthodox abortions at a West Philadelphia clinic, at the direction of the clinic's owner. ...
04:22 AM, Mar 20, 2013
A three-year-old boy died allegedly due to an overdose of anaesthesia administered by a dentist during a surgical procedure at a private clinic here today, police said. Shirish was taken to the clinic after he complained of severe toothache and died after he underwent a surgical procedure for the problem. ...
11:30 PM, Feb 06, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the Centre for its failure to stop illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by multinational companies, saying the drug trials are creating "havoc" in the country and causing death of many citizens. ...
03:04 PM, Jan 03, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the central government to provide details of clinical trials being conducted throughout the country, their side effects and deaths, if any. The apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice Anil R. Dave, while asking the central government to furnish the details, also issued notice to all state governments, seeking to know whether they were being kept in the loop regarding...
01:12 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has hauled up the Centre on clinical drug trials in the country. Issuing notices to all state governments on Monday, the apex court asked them if they were being kept in the loop by the government on the clinical trials. The court further sought details from the Centre on four aspects of the trials. These included: The number of clinical trials that have taken place...
12:21 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: Almost two months after a Parliament Standing Committee raised an alarm on untested drugs, it has been found that they are still being freely sold in the market. The shocking findings of the Parliament committee had put a huge question mark on the credibility of the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation, highlighting loopholes in drug safety laws. According to its report, 33 new drugs were approved by the...
07:12 AM, Jul 06, 2012
Cairo: Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak suffered a brain stroke and was shifted from Yura prison to a military Hospital in southern Cairo, with some media reports claiming he is "clinically dead". The 84-year-old former president, who is serving a life sentence, was in a "critical" condition and transferred to Maadi Hospital late on Tuesday night after he was defibrillated in the prison hospital, state-run new agency MENA reported. The...
11:19 AM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the central government on a plea seeking investigation into illegal and unethical clinical trials of drugs which are yet to be approved by the drug controller. An apex court bench headed by Justice RM Lodha issued notice on a plea by Madhya Pradesh-based 'Swasthya Adhikar Manch' that, in a large number of cases, multinational corporations were using contract research organisations...
03:11 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New York: 'First world' health problems such as obesity and heart disease may be gaining ground in developing nations, but they are mostly afflicting the rich and middle class while poor people remain undernourished and underweight, a study said. Researchers who looked at more than 500,000 women from 37 mid- and low-income nations in Asia, Africa and South America found that there was a clear divide between the better-off and...
11:02 AM, Nov 04, 2011
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It's a eureka moment for scientists ... Experts have made a breakthrough with a malaria Vaccine being clinically tested in Africa right now. The new ...
11:57 AM, Oct 24, 2011
Bhopal: Paras Sacklecha, an Independent MLA from Ratlam, has found through an RTI application that the Nehru Hospital in Indore has subjected at least 1883 children to drug trials - a fact that has not been acknowledged till now. Worse, these figures may have been manipulated, so the numbers of children tested could be far larger. "The doctors have taken advantage of illiteracy and poverty of the wards of kids...
09:12 AM, Jul 15, 2011
Jammu: In a drive against sex determination tests the Jammu and Kashmir government on Sunday sealed 18 Ultra Sound Clinic (USCs) for violating norms. "We have so far sealed 18 Ultra Sound clinics during a campaign launched against illegal and unlawful operation of these clinics in Jammu region during past 3 days period," senior officials of state health ministry said. Giving a break-up, they said six such clinics were sealed...
04:12 PM, May 01, 2011
Srinagar: Major embarrassment for Jammu and Kashmir as the state that once boasted of the best sex ratios in the country is now reporting a drastic decline in the numbers of the girl child. The government has now cracked down on illegal clinics that allegedly conduct sex-determination tests. This crackdown came after the latest census revealed a shocking statistic in the sex ratio. The number of girls per thousand boys...
11:13 AM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: Even after 100 years of use, doctors across the world have no clue how aspirin exactly works in protecting against heart attack and stroke. India will now soon be part of a trial - conducted by Medanta Medicity in collaboration with Duke Medicine, North Carolina - to better understand aspirin's effect on the body. "We're going to use newer modalities to study the effect of aspirin, how the...
01:11 PM, Feb 23, 2011
New York: Despite reports of liver damage in some women using black cohosh to ease menopause symptoms, clinical trials testing one major brand of this herb have so far found no evidence that it is to blame, according to a research review. Extracts of black cohosh, a plant native to North America, are marketed as a "natural" form of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and are most commonly used to treat...
02:49 PM, Jan 29, 2011
New York: People treated for stroke at designated stroke centers appear to survive slightly longer than those treated at other hospitals, suggests a new study. While the finding has important implications, it doesn't change the most important message about stroke, which is to get help as soon as possible, said study author Dr Ying Xian of the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina, and formerly of the University...
05:29 PM, Jan 26, 2011
London: In what could revolutionise the treatment for malignant melanoma, scientists have developed a new pill which they say significantly improves survival rates of patients suffering from the deadliest form of skin cancer. Researchers behind the drug, known as RG7204, claimed that it was found to reduce the size of tumours by 80 per cent in patients who participated in a trial held at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in...
11:54 AM, Jan 21, 2011
