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  MCI for suspension of 15 Madhya Pradesh doctors for sponsored foreign visits

  India | February 23, 2015 9:41 IST

  Indore: 15 doctors of Madhya Pradesh who went for pharma company sponsored foreign visits have come under the scanner of Medical Council of India (MCI).A MCI letter listed the names of 15 doctors and recommended

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  India needs 3.5 mn hospital beds, 3 mn doctors by 2034

  India | January 27, 2015 19:27 IST

  Mumbai: The Indian healthcare delivery system, which suffers from acute problem of limited resources, will need an investment of around USD 245 billion through traditional means to deliver desired outcome in next two decades, according

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  Modi for more accountability for doctors

  Politics | January 09, 2015 19:11 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday instructed the health ministry to set up mechanisms for ensuring more accountability for doctors and health officials in the public sector.“In order to achieve the desired goal of

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  J&K Floods: Centre to send doctors to prevent outbreak of diseases

  India | September 15, 2014 9:28 IST

  Srinagar:  The Centre has assured all medical help, including sending doctors and paramedic staff, to Jammu and Kashmir to prevent the outbreak of diseases in the flood-ravaged state.Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, who toured the

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  FIFA World Cup: Doctors veto Neymar wanting to play in final

  Football | July 07, 2014 17:34 IST

  Belo Horizonte (Brazil): Neymar has reportedly told family and friends that he wants to play in the World Cup final, should Brazil defeat Germany in Tuesday's semifinal.But Selecao medical staff is set to veto the

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  Lawyers dominate Modi's cabinet

  India | June 08, 2014 10:48 IST

  New Delhi: One-third of the Union Council of Ministers are law degree holders while two are doctors and nine graduates in various other streams.Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh are among 12

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  AIIMS doctors protest against killing of doc in Assam

  India | May 13, 2014 21:22 IST

  New Delhi: Resident doctors at AIIMS today observed a ‘black badge day' to protest the gruesome murder of a postgraduate student of Assam Medical College in hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) possibly after a failed

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  Indian doctors more likely to be struck off in UK, latest report says

  World | May 06, 2014 21:18 IST

  London: Indian doctors are at least four times more likely to be struck off from practising in UK than medics who are trained locally, according to latest figures. According to statistics from the General Medical

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  Only a miracle can save Schumacher, say doctors

  Other Sports | March 08, 2014 13:05 IST

  The doctors treating F1 legend Michael Schumacher, have told his family that the chances of recovery are now so slim that only 'a miracle' can save him.Today the 45-year-old winner of seven grand prix titles

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  Doctors in Dehradun go on strike to express solidarity with medicos in Kanpur

  India | March 06, 2014 19:09 IST

  Dehradun: Health services in the city were affected today as doctors went on a day's strike in protest against the brutal assault on medical students in Kanpur.OPDs were closed and only emergency services were kept

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  Doctors call off strike in Uttar Pradesh

  India | March 06, 2014 14:13 IST

  Lucknow: Doctors in Uttar Pradesh called off their strike Thursday morning, a day after the Allahabad High Court directed them to return to work, an official said.The Lucknow bench of the high court Wednesday also

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  Doctors find hundreds of gold needles in South Korean woman's knees

  World | January 16, 2014 12:51 IST

  New Delhi: Doctors have found hundreds of gold needles nested in a 65-year-old South Korean woman's knees. The woman suffers from osteoarthritis, so she visited an acupuncturist to relieve her pain. The acupuncturist thought it

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  Doctors must be dealt with strictly for medical negligence: SC

  India | October 24, 2013 21:53 IST

  New Delhi: Doctors and medical establishments must be dealt with strictly for their negligence in giving treatment to patients, the Supreme Court today held and asked the government to enact laws for effective functioning of

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  HC put on hold Odisha govt's notification on PG guidelines

  India | July 25, 2013 9:52 IST

  Cuttack, July 25: The Orissa High Court on Wednesday put on hold the state government's attempt to reduce the service period of MBBS doctors for consideration as in-service candidates for medical PG admissions.In May, the

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  Woman dies during sterilisation operation, probe ordered

  India | July 25, 2013 8:02 IST

  Jalandhar, July 25 : A woman died during a tubectomy camp here allegedly due to negligence by the doctors who were operating on her, sources said.The condition of the victim, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh,

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  Doctors rejected turning off Mandela life support: Friend

  World | July 06, 2013 20:33 IST

  Johannesburg, Jul 6: Nelson Mandela's doctors have dismissed the idea of switching off the ailing anti-apartheid icon's life support until there was a genuine state of organ failure, a close friend of the South African

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  Justice Tatia lauds doctors for their dedicated services

  India | July 02, 2013 7:09 IST

  Ranchi, July 2: Jharkhand High Court Chief Justice Prakash Chandra Tatia yesterday commended the Indian Medical Association of Ranchi for volunteering its services to the calamity-hit Uttarakhand.         "This shows the humanitarian side of the doctors,

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  Doctors for low-cost devices to reduce maternal mortality

  India | June 11, 2013 13:59 IST

  Bangalore, June 11: Specialist doctors favour low-cost devices to reduce maternal mortality and ensure better healthcare for women in India."By using low-cost devices, quality healthcare can be provided to reduce the maternal mortality ratio in

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  Motive was to kill Sarabjit, say doctors

  India | May 03, 2013 18:42 IST

  Amritsar, May 3: Refuting the theory put up by Pakistani authorities that Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was fatally injured in a "scuffle" of prisoners, Indian doctors who conducted a second autopsy on him Friday said

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  Sheila Dikshit's recovery satisfactory: Doctors

  Politics | April 22, 2013 7:54 IST

  New Delhi, April 22 : Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who underwent surgery for sinusitis two days ago, has recovered successfully, a doctor said Sunday."Mrs. Sheila Dikshit has had uncomplicated recovery since her sinus surgery