Medical Malpractice
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Indian medical representatives are giving quacks cash and gifts to sell antibiotics
These quacks, in turn, are unwittingly speeding up the creation of superbugs by offering incomplete or unnecessary antibiotics treatments.
Madlen Davies, Rahul Meesaraganda and Ben Stockton, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
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One year after 7-year-old girl’s death created a furore, Fortis hospital escapes the police net
A Haryana-appointed panel recommended that three doctors be held accountable for medical negligence and found forgery charges against hospital to be credible.
Vidya Krishnan
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Watchdog for patients’ rights: Health activists to launch website to monitor private hospitals
The online forum aims to fight rampant medical malpractices and corruption in the private sector.
Aarefa Johari
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‘Your statement has been written in haste’: Letters between Mahatma Gandhi and his son Devadas
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Red and white wine are better for your waistline and heart than beer and spirits
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Court ordered sealing of Gyanvapi tank even before it has received survey commission’s report
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Filmmaker Avinash Das booked for sharing photo of Amit Shah with arrested IAS officer
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India’s abrupt wheat ban is yet another instance of shoddy policymaking that disregards consequences
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Bihar government slashes compensation for 702 women who have lost their wombs
The compensation mandated by the human rights commission for unnecessary hysterectomies has been reduced from Rs 2.5 lakhs to Rs 50,000.
Menaka Rao
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Drug companies are buying doctors – for as little as a $16 meal
A new study in the US has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of that company's products.
Ray Moynihan, The Conversation
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In Karnataka, doctors perform unwarranted hysterectomies by telling women 'uterus kharab hua'
Fear and misinformation have allowed private hospitals to perform unwarranted hysterectomies on women in Karnataka’s Kalaburgi district.
Nayantara Narayanan
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‘The blessing is also for animals’: Monks meet pets on the occasion of Buddha Purnima in Singapore
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