Cabinet nod to amendments in MTP Act increasing abortion limit to 24 weeks Meghna A Singhania29 Jan 2020 12:17 PM GMTEnhancement of MTP age limit has been a long standing demand of many medical professionals who have pointed out there are many congenital anomalies of...
Karnataka Medical Council comes to rescue of Gynaecologist, says husband consent not needed for MTP Garima1 Nov 2019 8:32 AM GMTBangalore: Clearing the rules of Medical termination of pregnancies (MTP) in the country, the Karnataka Medical Council has clearly held that there...
MP HC allows minor rape victim to terminate 27-week pregnancy Medical Dialogues Bureau23 Oct 2019 4:28 AM GMTJabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has allowed an 11-year-old rape victim to terminate her 27-week pregnancy. The court's direction came on...
8 years after being accused of Illegal MTP, Gynaecologist gets absolved by MCI Garima20 Oct 2019 2:13 PM GMTBengaluru: Bringing relief to a gynaecologist who was accused in 2011, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has absolved the doctor from all charges of...
Surrogate mother with twins dies at AIIMS: Doctors call for stern surrogacy laws Medical Dialogues Bureau1 Oct 2019 5:09 AM GMTNew Delhi: Scores of medicos practising at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi are demanding stricter surrogacy laws after a...
Government refuses to extend MTP limit beyond 20 weeks, informs Supreme Court Meghna A Singhania19 Sep 2019 5:29 AM GMTNew Delhi: Denying the demand of many medical practitioners and even patients to raise the maximum time limit of Medical Termination of Pregnancy...
Gurugram Doctor sentenced to 5 years Jail for Illegal Medical Termination of Pregnancy Farhat Nasim25 Aug 2019 9:20 AM GMTGurugram: In violation of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, a doctor was sentenced to five years of severe imprisonment and imposed a...
Raising MTP limit from 20 Weeks to 24-26 weeks: We will soon take final call, Govt Tells Court Medical Dialogues Bureau7 Aug 2019 3:57 AM GMTThe Supreme Court, in 2017, had declined to amend the MTP Act which prohibits termination of pregnancy beyond 20 weeks, saying that the issue fell with...
25-Week Foetus: HC directs AIIMS to examine pregnant lady seeking abortion Medical Dialogues Bureau5 July 2019 3:35 AM GMTThe plea has said that in the instant case, the denial of an abortion to the woman, due to provisions of the Act, 'has caused her extreme anguish and h...
Rape victims can end pregnancy without medical board nod till 20 weeks: Madras HC Medical Dialogues Bureau26 Jun 2019 7:46 AM GMT'The termination of pregnancy can be done as per the provisions of Section 3 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971. The victim girl should ...
MTP Done on 14-year-old rape victim: AIIMS informs High Court Medical Dialogues Bureau18 Jun 2019 3:58 AM GMTThe high court had, on June 14, asked the AIIMS to set up a medical board to examine whether it was necessary to end the pregnancy of the 14-year-old r...
Delhi HC to hear plea on enhancing MTP window to 26 weeks Medical Dialogues Bureau28 May 2019 6:35 AM GMTSection 3(2)(b) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act prohibits the abortion of a foetus after 20 weeks of pregnancy. MTP Act, 1971 is tota...
