Many patients had a harrowing time as majority of doctors were not available on duty. Swapan Das, an aged man, was rushed to SSKM Hospital on April 30 for spinal injury. But rather than carrying out an emergency examination doctors referred him to Bangur Institute of Neurology (BIN) on the plea that there was no doctor available to attend to him due to strike.
DTMT NETWORK NEW DELHI 16 MAY 2015 In a message to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on World Hypertension Day today, President Pranab Mukherjee said, "Good health, as an attribute of human well-being, precedes every other possession of mankind."
DTMT NETWORK 18 MAY 2015 Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, 68, a former nurse who spent over four decades in a vegetative state after being raped at a Mumbai hospital in 1973, died today morning after a heart attack following a bout of pneumonia. Shanbaug was diagnosed with pneumonia last week and was put on ventilator support.
The event aims at engaging and educating schoolchildren through fun, while briefing them on the intricacies of road safety
DTMT NETWORK NEW DELHI 18 MAY 2015 A ten-day training event for regimental therapy in Unani medicine is being organised by the Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM) at its regional research institute here at Jamia Nagar, Okhla. Hijamah (wet cupping therapy) is an important feature of the regimental therapy.
Sold in 50 countries around the world, Blueair delivers home and business users more clean indoor air for enhanced user health and wellbeing faster than any competing air purifier.
Through use of music as a healing therapy is not common, many believe that it certainly eases stress and saves people from depression.
The decision was taken after a meeting with the mayor who, when confronted by the federation over the issue of timely payment of their salary on Monday, sought to pass the buck on the city Government.
BS RAWAT NEW DELHI 21 MAY 2015 Strides Pharma, Singapore and Strides Pharma, wholly owned subsidiaries of Strides Arcolab have signed definitive agreements with certain wholly owned subsidiaries of Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, a company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (Aspen) to acquire a generic pharmaceutical business in Australia together with certain branded pharmaceutical assets.
300 delegates from different hospitals all over the country along with faculty from the UK, the US, Japan and Singapore will participate in this conference.
The city Government proposed a penalty of up to Rs 10 lakh for distribution or sale of unhygienic and adulterated food items under the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act 2006
The programme consisted of a health awareness exhibition, which displayed various IEC materials along with audio-video presentations in the Institute`s Patient waiting area for the general population and an Interactive Health Talk on Tobacco and Oral Cancer.
The accused was apprehended while entering into his shop with 20.2 kg fine quality ephedrine.
Opens the state-of-the-art facility for research in epilepsy and other neurological disorders
Every third blind person in the world is an Indian and millions of others suffer from defective vision
Afghan national arm saved through rare tumor surgery at Apollo hospital, Delhi.
Prime Minister along with sportsperson will plant saplings to mark World Environment Day.
Dr Kalam proposes that the scientists should come out with definitive guidelines to reduce such mental illness cases and study the cause of such diseases.
As Yoga can play a major role in dealing with various kinds of mental health issues.
CORD targets 1000 organ donors per year in Delhi as the city has one of country’s lowest organ donation rates
The report shows that it requires larger efforts, good policies and their implementation to make health accessibility available in the world.
Three teenage boys from Britain have won a TeenTech Award for a discovery something beyond their years. The 13- and 14-year-olds came up with the idea for a condom that changes colours if it gets in touch with a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
Hilleman Laboratories (HL), today claimed to have made a break-through research on the success of a preclinical trial conducted for Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) vaccine offering hope to millions of children and needy people.
In India, over 30 percent of patients suffering from cardiac diseases die due to wrong treatment. To down this mortality rate All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in collaboration with School of Life Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here today has launched a lab journal for practical and theoretical aspects of cardiovascular sciences.
BS RAWAT NEW DELHI 13 AUGUST 2015 A depressed woman from Bhagalpur in Bihar is battling for life at the AIIMS Trauma Center, after coming under the wheels of Metro train at Arjan Garh station. In what appears to be a case of attempted suicide, Tanuja Kumari, 21, jumped in front of a in coming Metro train and severed her right hand.
