While the ratio of doctors to the patients in India is comparatively low as per the prescribed WHO norms, six states are standing out by having more doctors. According to the WHO norms, there must be one doctor for 1000 people. But the six states; Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Goa have more […]
Doctors at Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences have published an odd case of a woman from India, who can rotate her arm 180 degrees. The strange case has been published in the prestigious British Medical Journal. According to the report, a 37 year-old-woman, whose name is anonymous, sought the help of doctors after feeling difficulty […]
When the data show that the AIDS-related deaths in India have dropped by 54% in India over a decade, little did the people know, what kids with HIV positive go through. According to the findings of a study by Times Of India, most of the HIV+ children in the rural areas living on antiretroviral therapy […]
Following the devastating floods, Kerala is now battling with the outbreak of leptospirosis, or ‘rat fever’. The flood-hit south Indian state of Kerala has declared a health alert after 11 people died of leptospirosis or rat fever in the last two days. Also, since August 15, 196 leptospirosis cases have been reported so far and […]
In an extremely rare surgery, doctors at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences operated a baby who had its conjoined twin that lacked a head and a heart growing with it. The abnormal twin was posing a threat to the life of the normal twin. In a normal pregnancy, the head and heart […]
The southern state of India, Kerala has been witnessing the villain face of rains for the last two weeks. The data show that this has been one of the worst floods in almost a 100 years, with the death toll rising to more than 350. Though the water started to recede, and the rescue operations […]
The latest health audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General states that the medicines distributed under the National Health Mission (NHM) — India’s largest health scheme so far — in 14 states between 2011 and 2016 were past their expiry dates. The report, which is the concluding part of a series on the CAG’s assessment […]
The Doctors from King George’s Medical University Hospital in India have drained nearly 11 liters of urine from a man who had a hugely enlarged bladder. By the time the man had the fluid drained out, his bladder was 30 cm long and ballooned to six times its size. The 80-year-old man was presented with […]
The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled has asked the Union Ministry to introduce guidelines for the disabled people to pursue medicine through the entry to medical colleges. According to the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled, guidelines proposed by the Medical Council of India are “arbitrary and blatantly discriminatory” and […]
Indian origin woman cancer expert, Dr. Sudha Sundar became the first female gynecological oncologist to be elected to the prestigious post at the British Gynaecological Cancer Society (BGCS). She was named as president-elect of the BGCS. Currently, she is working as a senior lecturer in Gynaecological Oncology at the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Cancer […]