New Delhi: 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. Delivering Annual Oration Lecture at Maulana Azad Medical College, Kalam stressed on the need to reach out to rural areas and bring in modern technological advances which will help doctors in...
04:07 AM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: 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". Describing the incident as "one of the most tragic incidents" that they had ever seen, the doctors said the victim's badly damaged intestines were susceptible to gangrene and had to...
07:09 PM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: 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. It's a countdown to a date that comes once in a thousand years - 12.12.12, and would-be-mothers are planning...
08:10 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Gurgaon: A doctor and the chairman of a private hospital in Gurgaon have been booked for endangering the life of a pregnant woman, police said on Saturday. Doctor Subhash Khanna, chairman and director of Kalyani Hospital, and gynecologist Anjali Bagga have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). According to the formal police complaint filed with the Civil Lines police station, both the doctors endangered the...
09:40 PM, Nov 17, 2012
New Delhi: Diabetes is emerging as a leading cause of erectile dysfunction among Indian men. A recent study says that nearly half of Indian men above the age of 40 years suffering from the condition are diabetic. The study conducted by Alpha One Andrology Group - an association of doctors dealing in sex-related problems in men - took into account nearly 2,500 Indian men suffering from erectile dysfunction. "The analysis...
09:30 AM, Nov 12, 2012
London: Tens of thousands of Britons called on the government on Friday to nominate Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, for the Nobel Peace Prize. The 15-year-old is receiving specialist treatment in the English city of Birmingham after gunmen shot her on October 9 for standing up against the Taliban and openly advocating education for women. The attack has drawn...
08:36 AM, Nov 09, 2012
London: A week after Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, was flown to UK for specialised treatment, she continues to make steady progress and is in a stable condition, her doctors said on Monday. "Malala continues to make steady progress and is in a stable condition at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. "She has now been in the hospital...
05:18 PM, Oct 22, 2012
London: Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, is "stable" following her sixth night in hospital, doctors treating her said on Sunday. "Malala is stable in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham following her sixth night under the care of Queen Elizabeth and Birmingham Children's hospitals' staff," the hospital said in a statement. Malala, 15, was shot on a school bus...
06:00 PM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: DNB CET is the eligibility-cum-ranking examination for entry to various Post-Graduate courses in modern medicine under the National Board of Examinations (NBE). NBE shall be conducting DNB CET as a Computer Based Test (CBT) from 17th to 20th November 2012 at test centres across the country. Candidates who are in possession of MBBS degree/Provisional MBBS Pass Certificate from an Institute recognized as per the provisions of the Indian...
02:33 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Mumbai: Sales representatives for Abbott Laboratories Inc's Indian subsidiaries know what it takes get a doctor to prescribe the drugs they market: a coffee maker, perhaps, or some cookware, or maybe a vacuum cleaner. These are among the many gifts for doctors listed in an Abbott sales-strategy guide for the second quarter of 2011, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters. As laid out explicitly in the guide, doctors...
06:29 PM, Sep 26, 2012
London: A large number of Indian doctors have trained and worked in the UK over the decades, but latest figures show that their numbers have dropped sharply, reflecting tighter immigration controls and better career choices in India. A report released by the General Medical Council (GMC) on Tuesday revealed that India continued to provide the largest number of overseas doctors, but the number has reduced considerably from a peak of...
05:34 AM, Sep 19, 2012
Chennai: A 30-year-old woman landed up in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in Tondiarpet due to severe infection caused by a surgical napkin that found its way inside her during an earlier surgery. The napkin has since been surgically removed. According to Mahesh (31), the husband of the Ajitha (30), doctors who conducted a Caesarian Section on her to deliver the couples second child in February allegedly sewed...
12:32 PM, Sep 18, 2012
One woman is raped every 29 minutes, two women every hour, every day of the year in India. ...
11:38 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: One woman is raped every 29 minutes, two women every hour, every day of the year in India. The figures are just the rapes where women find courage to report, and become statistics at the National Crime Records Bureau. What's worse, the trauma of a victim only begins after she is raped. An insensitive society, police force and the judicial system violates her every time she steps out...
11:02 PM, Sep 08, 2012
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
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
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
