Even as Delhi reels under the dengue outbreak, the latest set of victims? 15 doctors who are treating the sick. While the overall death toll as of Friday has gone up to 20, the shortage of beds and continous patient inflow is making life very difficult for hospitals across Delhi. Doctors contract dengue Now the […]
This year’s Miss America 2015 beauty pageant saw a different talent presented by Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson, when she stepped on stage donned in scrubs and stethoscope around her neck. In a short but moving monologue she talked about her Alzheimer’s patient and how she helped him recognize that he wasn’t Alzheimer’s but a person […]
Last week, the United States Ambassador to India, Richard Varma launched the ‘Mumbai Dialogue: Towards a TB-free India’ along with Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Trusts. The Call to Action for a TB-Free India campaign is an initiative led by GoI to engage corporate, civil society and community leaders to end […]
Even as the nation celebrates Vinayak Chaturthi, Delhi continues to reels under dengue fever. Hospitals continue to stay jam packed with patients and their relatives, the latest victim being a 3 year old girl child. The dengue death count in Delhi has now touched 15 even as patients are sharing beds, sometimes even 4 to […]
Medical students of Calcutta National medical College (CNMC) are accusing their own institution of negligence after one of their classmates died without proper treatment, after a bike accident. Around 1 a.m on Monday morning, final year student Ritesh Jaiswal was riding a motorcycle when it skidded. When his friends found him, Jaiswal was injured but […]
In a “world first” 3D printing has been used to recreate a new sternum and part of rib cage for a 54 year-old man who suffered from cancer. A patient in Spain suffering from chest wall sarcoma received a 3D printed replacement sternum and ribcage after many of the natural bones were surgically removed. The […]
Even as the dengue crisis in Delhi is getting out of control, the state government’s lack of preparedness for such an endemic outbreak has been exposed. Shortage of beds was the first major issue faced, with up to two patients sharing a bed and the not so serious cases even been asked to lie on […]
The state governments of West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh have found a sample of drug maker Abbott Healthcare’s cough syrup Phensedyl to contain codeine above the allowed norm. Abbott healthcare is challenging this accusation. This case is important because the previously unreported case underlines the weakness of India’s unwieldy and poorly resourced drug and food […]
2,500 people who were at Ground Zero on Sep 11, 2001 have cancer! In its latest tally, the World Trade Center Health Program at Mount Sinai Hospital counts 1,655 responders with cancer among the 37,000 cops, hard hats, sanitation workers, other city employees and volunteers The attacks of September 11, 2001 seem like yesterday but […]
Rural India is starved for doctors and health care facilities and its a big problem! The scenario has multiple angles to it where – states like Karnataka are pushing for a compulsory two year bond among MBBS students, rural healthcare centres lack basic amenitites, MBBS students validate their side of the argument by saying a […]