More than half of U.S. doctors experience burnout Meghna A Singhania3 Dec 2015 12:37 PM IST(Reuters Health) - Burnout among U.S. doctors is becoming more common and now affects more than half of practicing physicians, according to a new...
Zafgen halts obesity drug trial after second patient death Meghna A Singhania3 Dec 2015 12:35 PM ISTZafgen Inc said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was putting a late-stage study testing its experimental obesity drug on complete hold after a...
FDA approves Empliciti to treat multiple myeloma Meghna A Singhania3 Dec 2015 12:35 PM ISTToday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval for Empliciti (elotuzumab) in combination with two other therapies to treat people with...
Unique weight loss surgery performed on Bangladeshi woman savita3 Dec 2015 12:31 PM ISTExperts at the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) here have performed a weight loss surgery on a 53-year-old...
IBM Watson to power Manipal Hospitals' cancer care savita3 Dec 2015 11:37 AM ISTIn a first, hospital chain Manipal Hospitals has adopted IBM watson cognitive computing platform for improving and offering individualised cancer care...
Blood pressure reading of 120/80 still works best for Indians: Experts savita3 Dec 2015 11:36 AM ISTAt a time when researchers and health care providers globally are debating over an ideal blood pressure (BP) level for you - with changing lifestyles...
Dr Henk Bekedam appointed new WHO representative to India Meghna A Singhania3 Dec 2015 11:06 AM ISTNew Delhi: Senior public health specialist Dr Henk Bekedam has taken charge as the World Health Organisation representative to India, an official...
Hubballi: Doctors take out protest march against acts of Violence Meghna A Singhania2 Dec 2015 4:02 PM ISTHubballi, Karnataka: Doctors working at Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, KIMS took out a Silent protest march to Kittur Chennamma Circle...
Punjab government sets up collection counters for employee health insurance Pooja2 Dec 2015 1:58 PM ISTAfter the recent announcement made by the Punjab government to make cashless health insurance scheme mandatory for all government employees...
Travel expense to ART centres continues as a deterrent for AIDS treatment in Karnataka Pooja2 Dec 2015 1:57 PM ISTA travel reimbursement scheme for HIV patients was launched in Karnataka to ease the burden of expense to approach Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)...
Government likely to introduce Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Pooja2 Dec 2015 1:36 PM ISTSoumya Swaminathan, director general of Indian Council of Medical Research, has confirmed the news that the government is considering the introduction...
Wockhardt's Chikalthana plant gets GMP certificate from UKMHRA savita2 Dec 2015 10:58 AM ISTNew Delhi:Â In a major relief to drug firm Wockhardt, its Chikalthana plant at Aurangabad in Maharashtra has received a good manufacturing practice...
