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
Mumbai: A Parliamentary committee has uncovered a nexus between doctors, government bodies and pharmacy companies to approve new drugs without the mandatory clinical trials. The doctors from top hospitals wrote to the country's Drug Controller General, to allow new drugs to be marketed, without clinical trials - a shocking lapse, highlighted in this Parliamentary standing committee report. Drug expert CM Gulati said, "All of them are compromised. We've got the...
06:16 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: With cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise, the government has finally agreed to make this a notifiable disease. That means, every doctor will have to register each case. At least a thousand Indians die of tuberculosis every day. The biggest threat at this point is what experts call totally drug resistant TB, which is incurable, and highly contagious. Fifteen cases have been confirmed in Mumbai alone. But...
10:03 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Country's premier institute All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), is facing staff crunch as only 400 doctors are functioning in the hospital against the sanctioned strength of 625 doctors. The hospital caters to 8,000 patients on a daily basis. Adding to the woes of the premier hospital, there have been instances where doctors have quit in the past couple of years for better pay and work opportunities...
03:20 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Jaipur: A 20-year-old mentally challenged girl was allegedly raped by a witch doctor who was approached by her family members for a cure for her ailment, police said on Saturday. A first information report was registered against the man on Saturday at the Amber police station. According to police, the girl, a resident of the city, had developed some mental illness and her family members thought that it was due...
12:21 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Malda (WB): Two infants died at Malda Medical College and Hospital, taking the toll of newborn death to 11 in a week, officials sources said on Tuesday. One baby died on Tuesday while another one died late on Monday night, officials said. The babies were brought to the hospital in a critical condition with respiratory problem and were underweight, doctors said. Earlier on April 6, nine babies had died in...
07:58 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Slamming the doctor couple for trying to settle the case against them by offering Rs 75,000 to their minor maid, whom they had allegedly left locked-up and starving in their flat while vacationing in Bangkok, a Delhi court on Friday rejected the bail plea of the medico's wife. Duty Magistrate Arul Varma dismissed the bail plea of Dr Sanjay Verma's wife Sumita Verma. The couple had appeared before...
07:46 PM, Apr 06, 2012
The Indian Express carried a report on Wednesday saying that two Army columns marched towards the capital in January without notifying the government. ...
10:49 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: A doctor couple accused of torturing, starving and locking up their 13-year-old maid servant have been arrested. The doctor couple Dr Sanjay Verma and Dr Sumita Verma had locked up the maid in their house in New Delhi before they went on a vacation to Thailand. Police had lodged an FIR against them under the Juvenile Justice Act, Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation...
04:26 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court of Tuesday rejected anticipatory bail plea of the doctor couple, who allegedly left their minor maid locked up and starving in their house while they vacationed in Thailand. Delhi police said that the couple are not in India right now. However, the lawyer informed the court that the couple was in India and willing to cooperate with the cops. Earlier, a look-out notice was issued...
02:40 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi police has issued a lookout notice against the doctor couple who had locked up their 13-year-old maid and left for a holiday in Bangkok. What was more shocking is that the couple had left the physically abused child for 6 days with hardly any food in the house. The ordeal that the maid suffered will be hard for her to forget. Her employers, both doctors living...
09:26 AM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: A look-out notice was issued on Monday against a doctor couple, who allegedly left their minor maid locked up and starving in their house while they vacationed in Thailand. Sanjay Verma and his wife Sumita were to return to India on Saturday but they had not reached Delhi even on Monday, a senior police official said. The police had on Sunday initiated the process of issuing the look-out...
07:59 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi-based couple has been accused of abusing their 13-year-old domestic help after leaving the girl locked in their home while on a six day trip to Bangkok. The minor was rescued on Thursday evening after she managed to unlock a window and shout for help. The police officials found her bruised and beaten. A case has been registered against the couple. The victim's statement will be recorded...
11:38 PM, Mar 29, 2012
KOCHI: Are doctors in Kerala dying young, mostly of life-style related ailments? Yes, if the Kerala chapter of the Indian Medical Association is to be believed. IMAs social security schemes show that 45 doctors died last year and over half of them were below 50. Most deaths were triggered by heart-related issues caused by excessive stress and in some cases, cancer. But the statistics pertain only to those doctors covered...
09:25 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Chicago: New research suggests doctors are contacting patients on Internet dating sites and engaging in other unprofessional online behaviour - and sometimes getting caught. That's according to a survey of most state medical boards that license and discipline doctors. Most boards said they'd received at least one complaint about unprofessional online behaviour; 25 per cent had received more than three complaints. The most common violation was asking patients out online....
10:37 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Mumbai: Getting under people's skin is part of Dr Vijay Sharma's job. But CCTV cameras recently rescued the cosmetic surgeon from the fury of a woman who had gone under his knife. Model Mahee Shaikh was arrested for trying to extort money from cosmetic surgeon Vijay Sharma by threatening to slap molestation case as she was not happy with her facial surgery. "I have been victimised by many of my...
02:34 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Agitating MBBS students at AIIMS in New Delhi on Thursday suspended their indefinite relay hunger strike, called in the wake of the alleged suicide by a first-year student, after the premier medical hospital's authorities promised to look into some of their demands. "We have decided to suspend our strike as of now. The decision has been taken after the hospital administration gave us a written assurance that they...
08:46 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Caracas: President Hugo Chavez has raised serious doubts about whether he'll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant. Chavez told Venezuelans on Tuesday that doctors in Cuba had over the weekend found a two-centimeter (less than an inch) lesion in the same place where they removed a cancerous tumor last year. The...
06:11 PM, Feb 22, 2012
