A blog post from earlier this month that criticized a medical resident in Mexico for sleeping on the job has led to a social media movement with doctors defending their long hours and need for rest. Earlier this month, a medical resident in Mexico fell asleep on the job while doing paper work. A blog […]
While recent events brought to light show the violence against doctors in India, the scenario is the same in China too. Chinese doctors too, face violence on an everyday basis and the profession has become a life threatening one. “Last October, Dr. Wang Yunjie was stabbed to death, and two other doctors were wounded by […]
“Recently, an MCI notice is doing rounds in the social media based on a Supreme Court order that apparently states that action will be taken on every doctor involved in strikes.” So we decided to do bring out the facts about the order and the notice. And present it here so that you can decide what really […]
Well, you read it right but it’s not the lines on your palm that’s important but the strength of hold that your palm generates. The Prospective Urban-Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study, grip strength and predicting mortality The study points out that a grip strength test could be used as a rapid, low-cost screening tool for healthcare professionals to […]
British researchers have found that many fixed-dose drug combinations (FDCs) in India lack central regulatory approval despite concerns over the safety and efficacy of such combinations. A study led by Queen Mary University of London, revealed that these FDCs are being sold in substantial numbers in India. In 2012, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) advises scientists and public health officials to take care when naming new human infectious diseases because the wrong name can have adverse side-effects Dr. Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s assistant director general health security, said in a press release, “In recent years, several new human infectious diseases have emerged. The use of […]
The Medical Council of India (MCI) is going to conduct surprise inspections to review the standard of medical colleges in the country. It will be giving approvals only to those institutions that have full-time faculty. Several complaints of colleges ‘borrowing’ staff at the time of inspection had been brought to the regulatory body’s notice. MCI […]
Cuba is famous for cigars and so it’s no surprise that lung cancer is the fourth leading cause of death in Cuba. And Cuba has found a solution too! Medical researchers at the Center for Molecular Immunology have worked on lung cancer vaccine, Cimavax, for 25 years before the Ministry of Health made it available […]
A new minimally invasive surgical technique for treating a severe form of epilepsy, especially in children, has been devised by doctors at AIIMS. Developed by Dr P Sarat Chandra, Professor of Neurosurgery at All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, it has been published in reputed journals and presented at multiple international and national […]
“When the heroine Shruthi is hit by a scooter, doctors at Patil Hospital insist on expensive tests though she is not badly injured. The hero, Aditya sets out to expose how helpless patients and their families are fleeced and often, inhumanly treated.” Then starts the most instigating part of the film. The punch line of […]