Betul: Eleven-month-old conjoined twins in Madhya Pradesh, Aradhna and Stuti, have got a new lease of life. They have successfully been separated by a team of 23 doctors and 11 nurses from Australia and India. June 20 will be a red-letter day in the lives of Aradhna and Stuti. Forced to stay apart from their parents for 11 months, the conjoined twins were finally separated after a 12-hour mammoth operation...
09:02 AM, Jun 29, 2012
Hyderabad: The state wing of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) staged a protest at government hospitals across the State as part of the medical bodys nationwide strike against the Centres move to bring in a National Commission of Human Resources for Health (NCHRH) Act in place of the Medical Council of India (MCI). Addressing the protestors at the Government Chest Hospital, Hyderabad, Dr N Appa Rao, chairman of the Special...
12:47 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Patna: Over 4,000 doctors on Monday abstained from work in Bihar to protest against the Centre's proposal to set up the National Commission of Human Resources for Health (NCHRH) to regulate medical services in the country and related policies, an Indian Medical Association spokesman said. "Over 4,000 doctors abstained from work to protest the Centre's proposal to set up the NCHRH in place of the Medical Council of India (MCI)...
07:01 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the day-long nation-wide strike called by the Indian Medical Association to protest against certain reforms initiated by the Central Government in the medical field. A bench of justices HL Gokhale and Gyan Sudha Misra, however, hoped the doctors would desist from going ahead with the proposed strike in the interest of the general public. "We find force in the submission...
12:45 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association has called for a nationwide strike on Monday, protesting amendments made to Acts relating to clinical establishment and private practise. However, they have assured that emergency services will not be hit. Medical services in Rajasthan are likely to remain paralysed on Monday when doctors affiliated to IMA will go on a daylong nationwide strike to protest the proposed amendments to Acts related to clinical...
07:44 AM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has hit out at doctors who claim his show 'Satyamev Jayate' has tarnished their image. After highlighting social issues affecting Indian society, Aamir Khan, in the fourth episode of his show, turned the spotlight on healthcare and malpractices in the medical profession. He highlighted unethical practices, corruption and scandalous revelations in medical treatment. Soon after, an umbrella body of 21 medical institutions had asked...
07:34 AM, Jun 25, 2012
Jaipur: Medical services in Rajasthan are likely to remain paralysed on June 25 when doctors affiliated to IMA will go on a daylong nationwide strike to protest the proposed amendments to acts related to clinical establishment and private practice. "Private hospitals, consulting chambers, diagnostic centres, clinics, nursing homes will remain closed on June 25," Indian Medical Association's state honorary Secretary Dr SS Agrawal told reporters on Saturday. Government doctors will...
08:16 AM, Jun 24, 2012
Srinagar: A senior doctor in Srinagar has written to UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah after the state Health Minister, Sham Lal Sharma, reportedly hurled verbal abuses at him, calling him a "beast with a beard" and a "fanatic". Dr Mohammad Ashraf Bhat has accused the minister of hurting his religious sentiments. The doctor was visiting the minister over a grievance when he was...
09:26 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday suspended 20 senior health officials after their names cropped up in an ongoing CBI probe into embezzlement of over Rs 10,000 crore of the National Rural Health Mission fund. "The government has suspended 20 doctors, including those having additional chief medical officer's rank, whose names were given by the CBI during inquiry into NRHM scam," Health Minister Ahmad Hasan said. Hasan said director...
11:18 PM, Jun 09, 2012
Beed: A doctor couple in Beed, Maharashtra was held on Sunday for allegedly carrying out illegal abortions. The police is on the lookout for others as well. Doctor Shivaji Sanap will now lose his license and would not be allowed to practice for five years. His hospital was raided after a couple of foetuses were found in the city. A Rickshawpuller reportedly identified the hospital as the place from where...
01:29 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday demanded an immediate apology from actor Aamir Khan accusing him of having defamed the medical profession in the May 27 episode of his TV show 'Satyamev Jayate' and warned him of legal action if he did not do so. "Aamir Khan should apologise for having defamed and given one side of the story on medical profession. If he does not we...
09:14 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Jaipur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday booked five senior Rajasthan government doctors for granting recognition to the nursing colleges which did not have standard facilities for the students, officials said. The doctors are professors at the medical colleges in the state and had inspected these nursing colleges as designated members of the Rajasthan Nursing Council for granting them recognition, they added. The authorities of five nursing colleges were also...
01:16 AM, May 30, 2012
The brother of the Pakistani doctor who has been jailed for helping the US trace Osama Bin Laden, claims he is being made a scapegoat and now wants Pakistan's apex court to intervene. ...
06:58 PM, May 29, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden faced accusations of corruption and other wrongdoing long before he was captured by Pakistani intelligence agents and then jailed for 33 years for treason. In interviews over the weekend, several current and former Pakistani officials described the doctor, Shakil Afridi, as a hard-drinking womaniser who had faced accusations of sexual assault, harassment and stealing. They said his main...
12:30 PM, May 29, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Medical Entrance Examination results have brought cheer to the capital district. It became the second district (along with Malappuram) to have more number of candidates in the first 1,000 ranks, with 124 candidates making it to the list.While the district secured one rank in the top ten, it also bagged the first and second ranks in the SC and ST categories respectively.In top tenThe phone rang incessantly at...
11:43 AM, May 25, 2012
Peshawar: A Pakistani doctor who helped the US track down Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason on Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington. Shakil Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where US commandos...
05:56 PM, May 23, 2012
Srinagar: With over 360 infants dying in the GB Pant hospital in Srinagar since January, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday directed immediate recruitment of doctors and nurses there on an ad hoc basis till full-time arrangements were made. "There is no need to wait for Public Service Commission to fill up the posts. I have directed the authorities concerned (state health and medical education department) to conduct...
04:49 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: With summers in full swing and the mercury heading north, doctors advise that apart from drinking lots of water, a special summer diet consisting of light and healthy food would ensure a cool mind and body. Ritika Samadar, chief dietician at Max Hospital, said fluids with electrolytes like coconut water and lemonade should be consumed and oily foods have to be avoided. "In summer, light food should be...
05:27 PM, May 17, 2012
After that extremely forgettable 'Ringtone', director Ajmal is trying a different genre in his new movie ' Doctor Innocentaanu'. But the important question that comes up is whether the filmmaker has learned any wise lessons from his debut debacle. The answer is a dismal no as his new endeavour remains a poor rehash of the sequences from many well known hits of Mollywood. 'Doctor Innocentaanu' has liberal inspirations and sequences...
05:20 PM, May 16, 2012
A parliamentary panel says some doctors are colluding with big pharmaceutical companies to sell unsafe drugs to the Indian consumers. ...
11:58 PM, May 15, 2012
