Kolkata: Kolkata is in the grip of a dengue epidemic, but this time, experts say the strain could have become even more deadly. It's the worst outbreak of dengue in seven years. Of the 2,200-odd patients affected across Bengal, at least 1,500 are from Kolkata, the state says. Unofficially, though, at least four times that number are suffering from Dengue. While the government confirms that three people have died so...
12:07 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New York: A 35-year-old Indian doctor has been arrested on charges of attempted child molestation in the US state of Tennessee. Vikul Patel, a doctor of internal medicine, was arrested without incident on September 2 in Georgia by the FBI-led Safe Child Task Force agents and officers after he traveled there to meet a minor child for purposes of having sex, acting Special Agent in Charge Ricky Maxwell said in...
02:49 AM, Sep 05, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday blamed a section of doctors for diagnosing heart attack as dengue without proper verification and issuing death certificates. "Writing of heart attack as dengue, is not done. Dengue must be confirmed before issuing death certificates," Banerjee who is also the health minister, told a press conference at Writers' Buildings. The Chief Minister urged the doctors to follow proper testing protocol and...
12:59 AM, Sep 05, 2012
Inspiring stories about young doctors who are helping the riot-torn people in the Assam relief camp, an Indian American bridging gender gap in the tech world, a 100-year-old former Mr Universe still strong and young and much more. ...
12:00 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Hyderabad: Protesting against the state government for the three-month delay in counselling and not providing proper guidelines for the implementation of mandatory rural services to those completing PG and PG diploma medical courses, junior doctors of Osmania General Hospital staged a protest demonstration here on Saturday. They took out effigies of health minister, DME and principal secretary of health on a donkey to express their ire over the governments attitude....
07:46 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Chirang: The Assam riots at the end of last month left nearly 80 people dead and lakhs homeless. The real challenge now lies in rehabilitating those who were displaced. And helping them are young doctors, who assist the men, women and children afflicted with diseases in the camps. While children remain afflicted with diarrohea and fever, women suffer from leucorrhoea. There is also an alarming spike in cases of malaria,...
08:33 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Agra: A retired Army doctor says he has perfected a simple and affordable technique to allow the hearing impaired to hear. "I have developed a simple yet innovative approach in a family practice for age-related hearing loss (presbycusis), without the need for any hearing aid or surgical intervention," Lt Col (retd) Rajesh Chauhan said. "After treating dozens of senior citizens, I am reasonably sure that we might be on the...
03:21 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Hyderabad: Fifty-two-year old R Anjamma was mentally prepared for a spinal surgery scheduled for Wednesday when she came to Gandhi Hospital in the morning. But what she was not prepared for was being asked by the doctors to either wait for a few more days or go to another hospital.This is what doctors at the hospital told her and her relatives, citing severe shortage of doctors, thanks to the strike...
08:25 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Patiala: The mystery surrounding the death of Anuradha Bali aka Fiza continues as the pathology department of a local hospital could not arrive at any conclusion about the reason for her cardiac arrest. A team led by the head of the department at Rajindra Hospital, Dr Manjeet Singh, Dr Anil Suri and Vijay Kumar Bodna, both associate professors have examined the heart samples of Fiza which was in a "highly...
04:28 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: With his dreams of becoming a doctor and leading a lavish life shattered by financial constraints, this Delhi resident posed as a "doctor" at two leading government hospitals in New Delhi and stole 21 cell phones of doctors until he was arrested. Amandeep Singh, 23, a resident of Tagore Garden in west Delhi was arrested on Friday along with his associate Jitender, 22, a resident of Shahdara in...
04:46 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Meerut: Two doctors of a private nursing home in Meerut allegedly raped a woman at the facility during treatment, police said. On the basis of the complaint of the 32-year-old victim, a case of rape has been registered against two doctors of the nursing home, SP City Om Prakash told reporters. The woman, who belongs to Muzaffarnagar, was admitted in the nursing home on August 5 and was to be...
02:32 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Mumbai: A disciple of Swami Nithyananda has been accused of rape by another follower of the guru. A 32-year-old NRI woman based in the US has accused 37-year-old doctor Vikram Dravid of raping her over the course of four years. The victim registered a complaint at Colaba police station on Monday. As per the complaint, in March 2008, Dravid brainwashed the victim, who is married, into having sex with him....
04:40 PM, Aug 08, 2012
The Karnataka Assembly has passed a bill making it mandatory for doctors to serve in rural areas for a period of one year, or pay hefty fines to the government. The bill comes into effect immediately. ...
01:05 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: Doctors with government and Team Anna on Wednesday differed on hospitalisation of fasting activists, including Arvind Kejriwal who alleged that the official medical report was "fake" and refused to get admitted. In his communication to the police, RML Medical Superintendent Dr TS Sidhu said the physicians who examined Anna Hazare and other fasting activists have "strongly advised" that Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai be "immediately" moved to...
08:58 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Madurai: A doctor has been arrested for allegedly raping a 16-year old girl who had come for treatment at a private hospital in Madurai, police said on Tuesday. The doctor, Sankaranayaranan, had allegedly given her some drug when she visited the hospital on Monday and had raped her when she was semi-conscious, police said. When the girl told her relatives that she had been raped, locals surrounded the hospital. The...
10:37 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Jaipur: A senior gynaecologist at a government-run hospital in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district was on Monday caught taking a bribe of Rs 800 from family members of a patient and arrested, police said. According to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials, Manju Khanna, was head of gynaecology department in Mahatma Gandhi Government Hospital in Bhilwara, some 250 km from Jaipur. "Kamlesh Kumar Somani had approached ACB saying that his wife was admitted...
09:34 PM, Jul 30, 2012
Kadapa (AP): A functionary of the Andhra Pradesh Congress was arrested on Saturday for allegedly "misbehaving" with a 25-year-old woman patient at his private hospital in Kadapa, police said. Dr Jayendra Rishnath, convener of the state Congress committee's Doctors Cell, was held on charge of misbehaving with the woman patient at his Kerala Aurveda Hospital in Kapada and remanded in judicial custody till August 9, police sub-inspector Ranganayakulu told reporters....
10:43 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Ghaziabad: A Noida doctor on Tuesday told a Special CBI court in Ghaziabad that when he was on his way to conduct Aarushi's autopsy he was made to speak by Rajesh Talwar's brother with a person, whom he said was head of the AIIMS forensic medicine TD Dogra. "Dinesh Talwar, brother of Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar, gave phone and said that Dogra wants to talk to me, and I thought...
12:28 PM, Jul 25, 2012
London: An Indian-origin doctor, who came to the UK in 1966 and went on to excel in medical practice to win royal honours, has hit the headlines by defying death by being cured of cancer even though he was given few months to live. Rami Seth, who studied Medicine in New Delhi, also held his own 'wake' to party and bid goodbye to his family and friends, only to survive...
03:20 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Dr Surbhit Chowdhry tells us about the most common myths associated with eye care. ...
09:17 AM, Jul 24, 2012
