New Delhi: India has been seeing a worrying rise in suicides. Statistics show every 10 minutes, someone in the country is taking their own life. "I always remember this line from my favourite Rocky series - it's not about how hard you get hit, it's about how hard you get hit but keep moving," 18-year old Rashmi said. Rashmi comes across as any other 18-year old. It is hard to...
08:58 AM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: It is that time of the year when dengue and malaria cases are at its peak. The worst hit this time have been Gujarat and Hyderabad. Mosquito maladies malaria and dengue have hit Ahmedabad with 9,392 cases of malaria reported, against more than 5,900 cases from last year. There have been more than 450 cases of dengue as well. So far this year, 63 people in Ahmedabad have...
04:24 PM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: Scientists have finally cracked the reason as to why Indians and South Asians are more prone to diabetes. Six new genes have been identified that trigger diabetes and make Indians and South Asians four times more likely than Europeans to develop type 2 diabetes. Dr V Mohan, the author of a study on diabetes, said, "For the first time people of South Asian ancestry have been studied. Interestingly...
09:18 AM, Sep 07, 2011
Gurgaon: Anna Hazare was hospitalised after after he ended his 12-day fast on the Lokpal issue on Sunday and doctors said he is "very dehydrated and exhausted" but there is no cause for worry. The 74-year-old Gandhian was taken straight to Medanta Medicity hospital in Gurgaon from the fast venue at Ramlila maidan and admitted for a check-up and he will be under strict observation. "He has been admitted. He...
10:36 PM, Aug 28, 2011
New Delhi: Amid mounting concern about Anna Hazare's health as his fast continued for the tenth day, doctors on Thursday night said the Gandhian's condition was "stable" but there is reason to worry. "Till now his condition is stable. But there is reason to worry as today is 10th day of his fast," Dr Naresh Trehan told reporters at the Ramlila Ground after examining 74-year-old Hazare. Trehan, who along with...
08:54 PM, Aug 25, 2011
Vendors have set up their stalls outside the Ramlila Maidan, where Anna Hazare is fasting. ...
05:27 PM, Aug 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research is now taking up a large scale research to study if probiotics can be an used as an alternative medicine for women and children's health. The Rs 20.6 million industry in India, has been quite a rage since probiotic products hit store shelves five years ago. One can pick from curd (already a natural probiotic product), tofu, milk, even get their ice-cream...
09:54 AM, Aug 08, 2011
New Delhi: Private doctors are using Tuberculosis antibody tests that are known for Misdiagnosis instead of cheaper and more effective tests. It is a blood test known to misdiagnose Tuberculosis in patients. The World Health Organisation's latest TB policy, after reviewing 94 studies globally, clearly advises against it. The TB DOTS programme in India doesn't use it. Yet, 1.5 million Indians are still given the TB antibody test every year....
10:51 AM, Aug 05, 2011
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Life is cheap or so they say...if you want proof I think government hospitals are the best bet. The first time I did a ...
04:57 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Doctors at AIIMS on Monday called for an indefinite hunger strike after their demand for reinstatement of a former resident neurosurgeon, who has been cleared of the charges of molesting an eight-year-old boy under his treatment, was not met. Nearly 200 medicos including resident doctors, AIIMS faculty members, Karamchari Union and medical students 'gheraoed' AIIMS Director R C Deka's office and demanded immediate reinstatement of Dr Shejoy P...
11:44 PM, Jul 11, 2011
London: If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger. A biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research, de Grey reckons that within his own lifetime doctors could have all the tools they need to 'cure'...
12:39 PM, Jul 05, 2011
Yunnan Province, China: Twenty eight Chinese universities are promoting their MBBS degrees and are top picks for Indians. Dali University - one of the top universities in China is busy promoting their MBBS course - the top pick of several aspiring Indian students. Bimbadhar and Vamshi Krishna from Andhra Pradesh was readily accepted in this university four years back along with 300 others from their state after failing to make...
08:59 AM, Jun 27, 2011
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If you have often baulked at the 'Made in China' tag, there's a new product coming your way: Indian doctors. Thousands of made-in-China Indian ...
12:48 PM, Jun 18, 2011
Jodhpur: Resident doctors of three hospitals here today went on a strike after a doctor was beaten up by the relatives of a patient who died during treatment. Dr Vivek Kumar of M G Hospital was beaten up last night by the relatives of Mumtaz Khan who was brought to the hospital with pain in the upper abdomen and died during treatment, R K Aseri, Principal of S N Medical...
12:03 PM, Jun 18, 2011
Patna: All the government doctors in Bihar are observing a day-long token strike on Tuesday to protest the death of a doctor who was lynched by prisoners inside the Gopalganj jail. Buddhadev Singh was beaten to death on Sunday afternoon by some jail inmates in Gopalganj, some 125 km from Patna, when he went inside a ward to conduct a medical check-up of a prisoner serving a sentence in a...
01:15 PM, May 31, 2011
Hyderabad: Rabies outbreak has been terrifying villagers in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. Eight people have died of rabies in the district in the last one month alone and the government hospital is seeing an unprecedented demand for anti rabies vaccine. Unfortunately, health officials have not been able to do much to calm their fears. A dog may be a man's best friend, but the menace of rabies...
10:52 AM, May 25, 2011
Citizen journalists fight against medical negligence. ...
10:07 PM, May 14, 2011
New Delhi: Government doctors engaged in private practice cannot be prosecuted under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) or any other criminal law, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench of justices Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra in a judgement quashed the FIR registered against two Punjab government doctors by the state government for allegedly indulging in private practice despite service rules prohibiting it. The apex court said if...
06:20 PM, Apr 28, 2011
Rajdeep Sardesai talks to Aviation Safety Consultant and Former Pilot Captain Mohan Ranganathan about the doctors asking for money to give fitness licences. ...
12:00 AM, Apr 19, 2011
CNN-IBN's Mike Sangma confronted Dr Akshay Bhalla to find out what he had to say about the accusations against him that he was overcharging pilots to issue medical certificates. ...
10:34 PM, Apr 18, 2011
