In a recent move, Bihar Cabinet has decided to provide AYUSH practitioners equal pay as allopathic practitioners. AYUSH(Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) practitioners working with government will now get paid par to the allopathic medical practitioners of the state. The policy has got its approval from the health ministry of the state […]
In a first of its kind in the world, a woman from Brazil, who received the womb from a deceased donor has successfully given birth to a baby girl. The event is a milestone in the medical history since uterus transplants from deceased donors are feasible and may open access for all women with uterine […]
In a first, Dr Tejas Patel, a senior cardiologist from Gujarat, India has performed an angioplasty on a middle-aged woman, who was in the operating theatre of his Apex hospital, 32 km away, through the world’s first in-human telerobotic coronary intervention. The procedure was carried out by an internet-enabled robotic arm at the cath lab […]
Violence against doctors is not new in our country. The list of the doctors who faced such atrocities is endless. Now, to save themselves from such attacks, the doctors across the country will be given a self-defence training. The initiative has been taken by the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA), a body which works […]
At 66, Dr Aquinas Edassery could’ve chosen retirement or could’ve run a clinic at home. But she wanted to come out of the comfortable life and serve the needed. From 2013, she chose to work for the tribal people living in the forests of Thuamul Rampur Block in the district of Kalahandi, one of the […]
Dhanya Nair from Kalyan was five months pregnant when an ultrasound scan revealed that her child had hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a rare condition that affects one in 10,000 births. It is a condition in which the left side of the heart is severely underdeveloped. In HLHS, unlike in a normal heart, the left […]
The Supreme Court has recently held that a doctor or surgeon cannot assure that the outcome of any surgery would be beneficial. The decision was held in response to a case between Dr SK Jhunjhunwala vs Mrs Dhanwanti Kumar. The appellant, Dr Jhunjhunwala, a doctor by profession had been practising medicine in Calcutta since 1969. […]
Scientists at the National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) are undertaking a study to determine the accuracy of an oral saliva test for HIV infection. The easy-to-use and cost-effective test will help increase HIV screening rates and also enable early diagnosis of the disease. The scientific committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has […]
For the first time in India, a team of doctors at Delhi Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has performed the catheter-based procedure of MitraClip to repair a leaking heart valve without surgery. Mitral valve is the valve connecting two chambers of the left side of the heart that receives impure blood from all over the body […]
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Indian Council for Medical Research and the Department of Biotechnology are joining hands to promote research in herbal drugs, some of which involve new drugs from marijuana. At a one-day conference on ‘Cannabis R&D in India’, union minister Dr Jitendra Singh said the government had granted a […]