InPatients treated by Older Doctors have higher mortality : BMJ Study savita18 May 2017 11:41 AM ISTPatients treated by older hospital-based internists known as hospitalists are somewhat more likely to die within a month of admission than those...
Doctors should be paid by salary, not fee-for-service : JAMA supriya10 May 2017 12:41 PM ISTWhile most conflict of interest research and debate in medicine focuses on physicians interacting with pharmaceutical and device companies, one...
American Heart Association Endorses NPPA for Its Stent Price Ceiling Policy savita9 May 2017 12:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: While the move of the NPPA of capping the price of cardiac stents  has become a topic of debate for many in the country, it seems to have...
AIIMS symposium to deliberate upon Dengue vaccine in India savita29 April 2017 12:53 PM ISTNew Delhi: A symposium by AIIMS in collaboration with France will deliberate upon launching clinical trials to establish the safety and efficacy of...
UP- Controversy brews over Caste Reservations in Private Medical Colleges Meghna A Singhania14 April 2017 3:01 PM ISTUttar Pradesh: Controversy seems to have brewed over the caste reservations in private medical and dental colleges in the state, after media reports...
Doctor rating websites lack helpful information : JAMA savita26 Feb 2017 11:24 AM ISTConsumers increasingly turn to commercial physician-rating websites, similar to those for restaurants and hotels, when searching for a new doctor, but...
Litchis behind mysterious deaths of kids in Bihar : Lancet study savita3 Feb 2017 12:54 PM ISTThe Lancet Global Health has published the results of a collaborative investigation by Indian and U.S. authorities revealing the causes of a...
Lancet Studies find worrying over-and-underuse of medicine worldwide savita9 Jan 2017 10:02 AM ISTLONDON: Up to 70 percent of hysterectomies in the United States, a quarter of knee replacements in Spain and more than half the antibiotics prescribed...
IIT Scientists to develop software to regulate sex determination Meghna A Singhania11 Dec 2016 8:15 PM ISTSince the enaction of PC-PNDT Act in 1994, the modality of ultrasound has drawn a lot of flak for its potential use for illegal sex determination in...
Copying of 10 consecutive words will be considered plagiarism: PGI Plagiarism guidelines. Noha7 Dec 2016 11:31 AM ISTChandigarh: Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh has recently come up with fresh guidelines for plagiarism to...
Global life expectancy stands at 72 years: Lancet savita9 Oct 2016 9:51 AM ISTWashington :Â Globally, life expectancy increased from about 62 years to nearly 72 from 1980 to 2015, thanks to improvements in sanitation,...
Free Meals for Doctors by Drug Cos influence their prescriptions : JAMA Study Meghna A Singhania24 Jun 2016 9:48 PM ISTIn this cross-sectional study of 279 669 physicians, physicians who received a single meal promoting the drug of interest, with a mean value of less...
