Revoking the shocking memories of Gorakhpur infant death of August 17, as many as dozen infants have died at the JK Lone Hospital in Rajasthan’s Kota within the last five days. With this, the death toll has reached 91. According to a newly appointed superintendent of the hospital, Suresh Dulara, out of the total, 14 […]
The World Health Organisation has pre-qualified a vaccine, PNEUMOSIL®, a vaccine against a leading cause of deadly childhood pneumonia – the pneumococcus bacterium. The vaccine was developed through a collaboration spanning over a decade between Serum Institute of India, Pvt. Ltd. (SIIPL) and PATH and with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The […]
The Indian Medical Association said that the police allegedly entering hospitals during stirs against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in violence-hit areas is ‘disturbing’. IMA also adds that such actions are unacceptable and the hospitals should be declared as ‘safe zones’. According to IMA officials, they’ve received reports from association members that in certain areas that […]
A new warning from the US FDA has put the top-selling drugs, gabapentin and pregabalin, sold in India to treat neurological disorders under the blacklist. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned serious breathing difficulties may occur in patients using gabapentin (Neurontin, Gralise, Horizant) or pregabalin (Lyrica, Lyrica CR) who have respiratory risk […]
Soon, people can store their vaccination records in their body itself. Researchers are making progress in developing a novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history: storing the data in a pattern of dye, invisible to the naked eye, which is delivered under the skin at the same time as the vaccine. Though it has […]
A recent incident where a doctor refused to treat an elderly patient at an outpatient department at a south Kolkata private hospital has created a stir among the public. Now, the doctors and hospital officials say that it was unethical to refuse an emergency patient even though medics were within their rights not to attend […]
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women. One of the painful facts is that of most women died of breast cancer, the reason was either late diagnosis or lack of access to affordable treatment. Now, WHO has prequalified its first biosimilar medicine ‘trastuzumab’, a move that could make this expensive, life-saving […]
In a first, NITI Aayog has asked the affected patients of J&J’s hip implants to help build consensus on the proposed regulation of medical devices. At present, India doesn’t have a law to compensate patients facing the adverse effects of faulty implants or medical devices. After the J&J hip implant case, which changed the lives […]
On the week-days, Dr Bindu Menon is a doctor at a hospital in Nellore. On the weekends, she navigates through the narrow lanes of villages of the Andra Pradesh in a small van. The only difference is that she is not going on a leisure trip, but for something more. Holding the grip on the […]
Female contraceptives are one of the ways to prevent pregnancies, only if you take it daily without fail. But the fact is, most of the women forget to take that pill. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital with support from the Gates Foundation are trying to create a once-a-month birth control pill, to solve […]