On Saturday, an unvaccinated 15 year old boy died in kerala’s Malappuram district due to diphtheria. Malappuram has attracted attention in recent times for its Muslim community with a strong reluctance to adopt immunization. According to Medical officer Dr.Ummer Farook, this year, two clinically confirmed cases of diphtheria have been recorded. The boy who died […]
Dr.Sunil Noothi found himself jobless once he was forced to move back to India after working as a research scientist in a US university for under three years. The reason he had to come back- the refusal of the Centre to issue him a no obligation to return to India(NORI) certificate. The refusal came in […]
The government doctors in Punjab are expressing their distress about recruiting doctors under the Punjab Civil Medical Services on just the basic pay. In this regard, the state body of the Punjab Civil Medical Services Association(PCMSA) has said that a state level protest rally will be held against the government today at Jalandhar. The decision […]
Aiming to make cancer care accessible to those in rural districts, the Maharashtra State government, with Tata Memorial Hospital(TMH) unveiled on Thursday the ‘affordable cancer care for all’ project. It’s hoped that the project would help reduce the incidence of preventable cancer forms. The project comes at a time when rural patients come all the […]
Deeming abortion to be in the “best interest” of the victim, the Gujarat High Court permitted the termination of a 22-week pregnancy of a 14 year old rape survivor. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy(MTP) Act allows termination of pregnancy only up to the 20th week of pregnancy. However, the present case was one which the […]
Claudio Vitale was 59 years old when he performed the surgery that gained him quite a bit of media attention in the west. The reason was not the prominence of the surgery itself but the way he performed it. To be more precise, he did it while having a heart attack. Vitale,a neurosurgeon in Naples […]
More than 21,700 packets containing fake blood plasma were seized by the counter-intelligence department of the Bathinda Police on Tuesday. The contents of the packets would amount to about 7,600 litres. Related to this, five individuals who are associated with different city hospitals were arrested. Two of them are Dlibagh Singh, the chief lab attendant […]
A global emergency was sounded by the Telangana government following the finding of an active strain of wild polio virus(P2 strain) in water that was collected from a drain. This prompted the government to lift two lakh vaccines from Geneva so that over 3 lakh children in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy district could be inoculated […]
On Monday(June 13), Scott Pelly, the anchor of the American television show CBS Evening News spoke to six surgeons of the Orlando Regional Medical Center who saved lives on the fateful night when an assailant opened fire on an LGBT nightclub in Orlando. The death toll is 50 with many seriously injured. The surgeons’ accounts, […]
Radiologists in Pune are on an indefinite strike from Tuesday as a protest against what’s said to be the high-handed approach of the Pune Municipal Corporation(PMC) in implementing the PC-PNDT(Pre-Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques) Act. The Maharashtra state branch of the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association(MSBIRIA) is also backing the Pune radiologists. They said […]