Now, EMI scheme available for cancer treatment Meghna A Singhania7 Feb 2016 6:45 PM ISTNew Delhi, Feb 7 : Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has rolled out an EMI scheme for cancer patients in order to help them continue the treatment and meet the...
New hearing date in AIIMS case as probe officer fails to turn up Meghna A Singhania7 Feb 2016 10:18 AM ISTA court here on Saturday set March 16 as the new date of hearing in the AIIMS corruption case as the investigation officer failed to turn up for the...
How to deliver a bad news to a patient Prem Aggarwal6 Feb 2016 3:52 PM ISTCommunicating with patients and their families is an integral part of the medical profession. And much as doctors want to avoid it, delivering...
US doctor gets 30 years to life for prescription drug deaths savita6 Feb 2016 3:27 PM ISTLos Angeles: A Los Angeles-area doctor convicted of murder for prescribing exorbitant amounts of painkillers that left a dozen patients dead was...
Narrow escape for Medicos to pay RS. 2CR Compensation Rohit6 Feb 2016 3:24 PM ISTWhat a narrow escape for Doctors !! Rs. 2 Crore Compensation case dismissed !!The ECG report of the patient got interchanged with other patient and...
Indian origin doctor in UK wins 1.22mn pounds as compensation savita6 Feb 2016 11:07 AM ISTLondon: An Indian origin heart specialist in the UK who was unfairly sacked after raising concerns about patient safety at a hospital in the country...
Important Q and A for practitioners about Zika Virus Meghna A Singhania5 Feb 2016 4:27 PM ISTCDC, US has issued certain guidelines as well as information sets particularly for practitioners, gynaecologists, paediatricians about Zika virus in...
Delhi government forms a committee to tackle rare diseases Pooja5 Feb 2016 12:44 PM ISTA policy on rare genetic diseases like Progeria that causes premature ageing or Lysosomal storage disorders such as Pompe disease and Gaucher's...
Terminated doctor used to harass junior residents : says AIIMS savita4 Feb 2016 10:42 AM ISTNew Delhi : Weeks after several faculty members of AIIMS protested a doctor's removal for allegedly misbehaving with a patient in 2015, its...
Case of sexual transmission of Zika Virus reported in the US Meghna A Singhania4 Feb 2016 9:52 AM ISTTexas: The Dallas County in Texas has reported a case where a person has been infected with the Zika Virus after having sexual contact with a partner...
Chennai: King Institute will get diagnosis lab for Zika detection Pooja4 Feb 2016 9:52 AM ISTThe King Institute of Preventive Medicine in Chennai will soon have its own diagnostic laboratory which will be equipped to detect 23 typos of fever....
Health Ministry guidelines on Zika Virus Disease savita3 Feb 2016 11:09 AM ISTThe Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued guidelines on the Zika virus disease, here. The text of the guidelines is as follows.BackgroundZika...
