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 […]
Following days of strike, police brutality, arrests the BRIMS Doctors Association issued a Facebook post and Tweeted on Sep 4 to withdraw the strike The students at Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS) Karntaka also presented a memorandum to Sri Dattatreya Patil, MLA of Gulbarga South to show that their demands still need to be […]
The rapid diagnostic test kits for dengue provides inaccurate results says the government. This statement comes at at time when the country’s capital has witnessed a sudden jump in dengue cases (upto 1,259). The government is monitoring the situation and as a result the rapid diagnostic test kits which are used for quick detection are […]
The Karnataka state government continues to harass government medical students by looking to enforce the compulsory rural service act, officially known as the Karnataka Compulsory Service Training by Candidates Completed Medical Courses Act (2012). Some doctors are voicing their concern and saying that the act is a punishment students are facing for lapses in government’s […]