ART centres in Bangalore are once again facing a shortage in HIV drugs, putting hundres of patients in a tough spot. A similar shortage of HIV drugs was seen earlier this year, when there was an acute shortage of Nevirapine. Nearly 90% out of the 1 lakh population who are on ART in the state are […]
58 districts will have new medical colleges set up, leading to 5,800 fresh MBBS seats in India. This was the statement made to the Parliamnet by Health Minister JP Nadda. These colleges would be established under the centrally sponsored scheme for ‘Establishment of Medical Colleges attached with existing District/Referral hospitals.’ “In the first phase, total 58 […]
Ollie Trezise from Wales is being described as the ‘real life’ Pinocchio was born with a rare birth defect called Encephaloceles in which lack of bone fusion in the skull leaves a gap through which a portion of the brain sticks out. The 21-month old has undergone several painful surgeries to help him breathe better and close the […]
A Syrian surgeon who said Indian doctors should ‘clean toilets, not practice medicine’, and claimed they would be the ‘downfall of the NHS’ has been struck off the medical register. Dr Ragheb Nouman, 52, also called a colleague an ‘Indian b******’ during an argument in front of patients at a hospital bus stop, but blamed his racist […]
Over 1,000 people, including 350 infants, may have been exposed to tuberculosis in the maternity wing of a hospital in California after an active case of the disease was diagnosed in a nurse, hospital officials said on Sunday. The hospital said it was notified only in mid-November that an employee who worked in the area […]
Medical Council of India (MCI) has announced that it will no longer be making public the minutes of any of its ethics committee meetings. These are the meetins where medical negligence cases and cases of professional misconduct by doctors are heard. No minutes from ethics committee metings have been uploaded to the MCI website since […]
Students completing postgraduate degrees or diplomas in any faculty of the Goa Medical College (GMC) will have to compulsorily serve a three-year bond wherein the successful candidate will be required to work in a government hospital or any other medical institute under the public health department. Excuse of further studies – no more ! The […]
Mexico unveiled the world’s first approved dengue vaccine. The approval followed two years of clinical trials worldwide on more than 40,000 patients ! According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), “nearly 40 percent of the world’s population (3.9 billion people) is at risk of contracting dengue.” Around 400 million people in more than 128 countries […]
Chennai’s rains and floods were no match for city-based woman doctor Padma Priya who worked a 96 hour stretch to help deliver 17 babies at a private hospital. Dr Padma Priya who stayed at Apollo Speciality Hospital on OMR (Old Madras Road) since Friday (Dec 4) helped deliver 13 babies. By Sunday 17 healthy babies were […]
A spurt in number of cases of doctors being threatened, assaulted and even abducted for ransom has been reported from Bihar in the past two months. Fearing the return of dark times — between 1991 and 2005 when, according to statistics compiled by the IMA-Bihar, at least 38 doctors or their wards were kidnapped and […]