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 […]
An Antarctic expedition comes with its set of challenges. But what the Russian surgeon, Leonid Rogozov had to contend with, no one saw coming. The year is 1961 and Rogozov was part of the sixth Soviet Antarctic expedition team. The purpose of the team of twelve was to build on the Schirmacher Oasis a new […]
A baby girl born in a city hospital in Nagpur is not the the first harlequin child in India as was reported by many a publication. The Nagpur baby was born at around 12.25 AM on Saturday at the Lata Mangeshkar Medical College and Hospital, the first baby of a farmer couple. Harlequin Ichthyosis is […]
Dismissing a complaint from a deceased patient’s widow, the National Commission observed that a physician is free to choose whom to serve except in case of an Emergency. The Commission also mentioned that it’s in the interest of both doctors and patients that such cases aren’t unnecessarily dragged to the Court. The compliant based on […]