Angered over maltreatment, a "mentally instable" patient who is a doctor himself attempted to kill his medical consultant in Ghaziabad on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred in Narendra Mohan Hospital under the Sahibabad police station. ...
09:56 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The Centre would permit overseas Indian doctors to practise in the country without undergoing screening tests, Union Health Secretary P K Pradhan said on Wednesday. In what is viewed as the first major impact of the ongoing Global Healthcare Summit, Pradhan said the Centre was ready with the bill to amend the Medical Council of India (MCI) Act and allow overseas Indians to practise in their homeland as demanded by...
02:20 AM, Jan 03, 2013
The Singapore doctor who carried out the postmortem of the 23-year-old gangrape victim will be included as a witness by the Delhi Police in the 50-page charge sheet in the case to be filed before a fast-track court in New Delhi on Thursday. The male friend of the victim will be the main witness in the case while the Singapore doctor, who carried out the postmortem and the Indian mission...
04:28 AM, Jan 02, 2013
Condoling the death of the Delhi braveheart, the Indian Medical Association on Saturday questioned the airlifting of the 23-year-old victim to Singapore for advanced treatment and wanted to know whether hospitals in India lack infrastructure to treat such patients. ...
02:39 AM, Dec 30, 2012
It was a "purely medical decision" to shift the 23-year-old Delhi gangrape survivor to Singapore and it was not due to political reasons, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Friday. "It was done for medical purposes. It was purely a medical decision taken by the doctors," Khurshid said to a question on reports that Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was behind the move to shift the gangrape survivor to Singapore...
08:55 PM, Dec 28, 2012
With doctors at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore taking over the treatment of the 23-year-old gangrape victim, the medical team which had accompanied her will return on Friday. ...
08:52 PM, Dec 27, 2012
A consumer court in West Bengal has slapped a Rs 20 lakh fine on a doctor for medical negligence that resulted in a three year boy losing an arm due to gangrene and subsequent amputation. ...
04:43 AM, Dec 24, 2012
The Delhi gangrape victim, who is currently battling for life at the Safdarjung Hospital in the national capital, is showing mixed response to the treatment and has been taken off the ventilator. The information was given by Dr BD Athani, the medical superintendent at the hospital. ...
05:15 PM, Dec 21, 2012
Exhorting medical fraternity to constantly strive towards working for the poor, former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Thursday sought more research in the medicine especially in finding a cure for AIDS and for creating low cost healthcare. ...
04:07 AM, Dec 21, 2012
The intestines of the 23-year-old woman who was gang-raped and brutally assaulted in Delhi by a group of men Sunday night have been removed in a two-hour surgery, doctors said Wednesday, adding that the victim is "still critical". ...
07:09 PM, Dec 19, 2012
A 70-year-old doctor has been sentenced by a British court to 11 years of imprisonment for assaulting women patients over a period of three decades. Sheffield Crown Court Judge Simon Lawler sentenced Gousul Islam for 11 years for assaulting seven women patients. ...
07:38 AM, Dec 19, 2012
A heartbroken India-born doctor in Britain committed suicide after his parents, citing cultural differences, disapproved of his wish to marry a fellow physician. ...
12:31 AM, Dec 18, 2012
A well-known Hindu doctor was on Thursday gunned down by motorcycle-borne attackers in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan, police said. Doctor Lakshmi Chand was on his way home when two armed men riding a motorcycle fired at him at Hindu Mohalla in Mastung town. ...
08:50 PM, Dec 13, 2012
It is 12 December 2012 - and the unique date of 12.12.12 is being chased by, believe it or not, would-be mothers across cities in India. Numerologists say babies born on this date will be 'lucky'. No wonder then, there are many C-Section deliveries lined up for the day. ...
08:10 AM, Dec 12, 2012
A doctor-patient relationship built on trust and empathy has much more going on than merely putting patients at ease -- it helps the brain beat pain and stress. ...
09:26 AM, Dec 04, 2012
A 28-year-old married woman was arrested for allegedly attempting to abduct a new-born baby boy from a hospital in the national capital in the guise of a doctor. Deepti Bahari, a resident of Ghaziabad, had gone to the Hindu Rao Hospital on November 29 and kept inquring from patients on whether they had given birth to a baby boy or girl. ...
09:51 PM, Dec 03, 2012
A woman doctor was on Thursday axed to death by a man at a hospital in north China's Tianjin metropolis, police said. ...
02:45 AM, Nov 30, 2012
Diwali in Mumbai was less noisy and greener this year, thanks to the efforts of Sumaira Abdulali, an activist with NGO Aawaz Foundation, who for the last ten years has been working tirelessly to make this happen. ...
07:41 PM, Nov 24, 2012
MS Dhoni's demand to doctor the pitch suggests "if the pitch doesn't suit us, we can't win," feels the former Australia skipper. ...
03:19 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Mumbai: In one of the nicest ironies in Shiv Sena supremo and Hindutva' champion Bal Thackeray's life, the doctor who treated him for the past five years and was with him in his last hours was a Muslim. Dr Jalil Parkar, well-known Pulmonologist from Lilavati hospital who had been Thackeray's trusted physician for the last five years, made the announcement of Sena chief's death on Saturday evening with tears in...
06:58 PM, Nov 18, 2012
