Doctors
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Remote-controlled mini robots to replace doctors for medical operations
Jul 26, 2016, 05:38 PM ISTNever failing to surprise us with creations beyond our imagination, technology has indeed come a long way. In their continuous quest for innovation, scientists have now created soft, remote-controlled microrobots which can be used for
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Pakistan’s brazen infiltration ploy: ‘Doctors, nurses’ from Hafiz Saeed’s JuD seek Indian visa to ‘help Kashmiris’
India | Jul 25, 2016, 01:47 PM ISTnurses and other paramedical staff belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) have applied for an Indian visa.
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Over half of India’s allopathic doctors have no medical degree: WHO
India | Jul 19, 2016, 12:28 PM ISTA recent WHO report has made a shocking revelation claiming that only 31 per cent of the proclaimed allopathic doctors in India in 2001 were educated only up to the secondary level and 57 per cent did not have any medical qualification degree.
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Hospital fined Rs 8 lakh compensation for doing wrong hip surgery
India | Jul 18, 2016, 08:32 AM ISTChennai: A consumer court has directed a city hospital to pay its former patient a compensation of 8.38 lakh for conducting a hip surgery wrongly by using bad quality plates, delaying treatment and also carrying
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In India, 46 pc female cancer patients are below 50 years: Doctors
Lifestyle | Jul 18, 2016, 07:44 AM ISTVadodara: Nearly forty-six pc of women who are suffering from cancer are under 50 years of age, said doctors deending on the current worrying trend that's likely to continue in the coming years due to
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This is how doctors can now predict whether coma patients will wake up in a year
Lifestyle | Jul 17, 2016, 06:26 PM ISTScientists have found a new measure which will not only help in measuring the level of awareness in a brain-injured person who is in coma, but also predict whether they will recover consciousness within a year.
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Doctor's Day Special! IMA appeals to doctors to provide free consultation today
India | Jul 01, 2016, 10:45 AM ISTNew Delhi: Today is National Doctors' Day and on this day the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has appealed to its 2.5 lakh doctors to commemorate Doctors Day by providing free medical consultation to all patients
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Doctors find uterus in 23-year-old man in Andhra Pradesh
India | Jun 24, 2016, 07:29 AM ISTNellore: A 23- year old man was found to have a uterus which was subsequently removed by the doctors at a hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Kuppam town. In one of the rare cases, doctors
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Selfie lovers beware! Posing for selfies can cause damage to your skin and cause wrinkles
Lifestyle | Jun 20, 2016, 09:45 AM ISTLondon: If you love taking selfies and keep clicking pictures of yoursef then you need to take a note and stop it right away. When you expose your face to your smartphone, the light and
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Doctors successfully remove 7-kg tumour from stomach of 45-yr-old woman
India | Jun 14, 2016, 02:22 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram: In a complex surgery, a 7-kg tumour was successfully removed by a team of doctors from the abdomen of a 45-year-old woman at a medical college hospital here. The growth of the tumour, which
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Kidney racket: Three Apollo doctors likely to be questioned
India | Jun 12, 2016, 02:21 PM ISTThree nephrologists at the Apollo Hospital here are likely to be questioned by Delhi Police in connection with the transplant surgeries performed under their supervision which were facilitated by the kidney racket
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25,000 resident doctors go on strike in Delhi, patient dies
India | May 26, 2016, 06:55 PM ISTNew Delhi: Nearly 25,000 resident doctors of the central and Delhi government hospitals went on a one-day strike today to protest against de-merger of NPA from their basic salaries. In the alleged absence of timely
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One doctor for every 1,681 persons in India, reveals MCI data
India | May 04, 2016, 09:57 PM ISTThe latest Medical Council of India data revealed that the doctor-population ratio in India stands at 1:1681.
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Hospitalised youth dies as doctors watch T20 match
India | Apr 03, 2016, 07:32 AM ISTMathura: Doctors glued to the television watching the nail-biting World T20 semi-final clash between India and West Indies allegedly failed to attend to a critically injured youth, who later succumbed to wounds at a hospital
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Doctors still clueless about mysterious breast disease gripping young women in Pune
India | Mar 30, 2016, 08:38 PM ISTNew Delhi: In what appears to be a potentially deadly infection, women in their 20s and 30s in Pune are being struck by a mysterious breast disease, leaving doctors perplexed. Many women have complained of
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FIR against 2 doctors of Shirdi Saibaba hospital for misappropriation
India | Mar 29, 2016, 10:03 PM ISTShirdi: Sai Baba Hospital, run by Saibaba Sansthan Trust, today lodged an FIR in the local police station against its two cardiologists for their alleged involvement in malpractices thereby causing losses to the hospital to
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Junior medicos in Britain strike work for 3rd time since last month
World | Mar 09, 2016, 09:31 PM ISTJunior medicos in Britain strike work for 3rd time since last month
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Warning! Do not blindly follow mobile health applications, alert doctors
Lifestyle | Mar 02, 2016, 12:12 PM ISTNew Delhi: In view of increase in usage of mobile based health applications, Indian doctors have urged people to not blindly rely on such technologies for health updates as they may give wrong estimates.They said
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Degradation in quality of doctors after Vyapam Scam: Naresh Trehan
India | Feb 07, 2016, 05:08 PM ISTBhopal: Vyapam scam, the massive admission and recruitment racket in Madhya Pradesh, has ruined the quality of doctors in India, renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr Naresh Trehan has said."Vyapam scam has ruined the quality of doctors
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2 patients die as doctors go on mass leave across Jharkhand
India | Nov 07, 2015, 11:57 PM ISTMedininagar/Jamshedpur (Jharkhand): Two patients in Palamau district died today allegedly due to lack of medical treatment as doctors across the state went on mass leave for a day.The medicos were on leave as mark of