A very rare surgery was successfully performed by doctors in Hyderabad to remove a shoulder tumour. The surgery, in fact was performed six months back on 46 year old Padma. But now, she has achieved 160 degrees shoulder rotation- the highest that’s possible with such surgeries, as per the doctors. Doctors performed the advanced reverse […]
Dr Vipin Vashishta became a bad boy in the books of many vaccine manufacturing companies when he blew the whistle on how these companies- both Indian and multinational push expensive vaccines into the Indian market. Some of these vaccines, it’s said, don’t even answer any real need. This has created a market that’s worth crores […]
A doctor from Maharastra has been absolved by the Supreme Court of a medical negligence charge 20 years after it was made. The incident that spurred the accusation was a road accident in which a victim succumbed to injuries at the hospital. The Supreme Court relied on its earlier verdict, saying that for cases in […]
A new genetic disease has been discovered by Indian doctors. The disease, called “Multiple mitochondrial dysfuntion syndrome” was discovered by doctors at the Department of medical genetics, Kasturba Medical College in Manipal. The new genetic disease has been found in four children from two different and unrelated families in Manipal. It was found that the […]
Doctors say that they don’t believe that the girl who was found in the Motipur range of katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh was raised by monkeys. This was reported by the British newspaper, The Guardian on Saturday. Sanctuary officials expressed suspicion that the girl was abandoned there by her relatives. This is contrary to […]
The story of how a 24 year old final year MBBS student helped a lady deliver a baby on the Ahmedabad-Puri Express is being widely discussed by the public. The story has been carried in the leading newspaper, The Times of India. Vipin Khadse helped the woman, with the help of instructions he received from […]
September 6, 2014 isn’t a day many in Kashmir are bound to forget easily. The day when they woke up to one of the biggest floods of the century. During the time, Dr. Shahnaaz Teing was working at the valley’s sole maternity hospital in Lal Ded. Due to the flood, she got stuck in the […]
The fact that there’s an imminent launch of the first new male contraceptive in over a century ought to bea big news. And it would be even bigger when it’s learnt that the contraceptive comes from a small Indian university startup than a big company. Unfortunately, now there’s a glitch to this story- big pharma […]
The medical fraternity of India could take pride in the Pune doctors who improved the hand mobility of a three year old girl using surgery. The girl, from Iraq was born without thumbs. Living with four fingers in both hands, she had only limited ability to hold objects. The procedure was done at the Inamdar […]
Field investigators of the Virus Research Centre(VRC) in Pune came to Shimoga district in Karnataka in 1957 to follow up on the mysterious death of tens of monkeys. The investigation would begin a decades spanning search for the origins of a baffling disease that would go on to afflict humans. Even as the researchers were […]