Six-month-long treatment regimen effective for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, finds new trial

The STREAM trial findings published in ‘The Lancet’ showed that 91% of the 134 patients were cured of the bacterial disease.

Tabassum Barnagarwala

· Nov 08, 2022 · 08:33 pm

Delhi AIIMS withdraws special guidelines for treatment of Parliamentarians after criticism

The Federation of Resident Doctors Association had questioned the move, saying that the privileges amounted to ‘VIP culture’.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 21, 2022 · 07:37 pm

‘VIP culture’: Doctors criticise AIIMS guidelines for treatment of Parliamentarians

The standard operating procedures include providing a nodal officer to coordinate and facilitate medical care arrangements for the MPs.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 20, 2022 · 01:45 pm

A steep hike in medical education fee has left Punjab grappling with a shortage of doctors

The state has seen a 479% fee hike in government colleges in the past decade.

Vivek Gupta, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 20, 2020 · 09:30 pm

How every level of India’s healthcare system failed a pregnant woman in Bundelkhand

Banda woman delivered a stillborn child on January 15 after being shunted from one government-run health facility to another without being given emergency care.

Khabar Lahariya

· Feb 10, 2019 · 07:30 am

Jaipur: Investigation on after pharma company allegedly conducts human clinical trials of new drug

The labourers were reportedly admitted to hospital as their health deteriorated after they were administered the drug on March 19.

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· Apr 22, 2018 · 10:29 am

Delhi: AIIMS security personnel file complaint against man posing as a faculty member

The man was caught telling junior resident doctors that he was from the orthopaedic department, and asking them to admit a patient.

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· Feb 28, 2018 · 07:46 am

Cabinet approves scheme to set up 24 new medical colleges across India

All the new institutes have been proposed in hospitals that are in under-served areas.

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· Feb 08, 2018 · 12:00 pm

Why a new employee healthcare plan by Amazon and Co could shake the industry

Three business giants, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, announced plans to change health care delivery and insurance as we know it.

J B Silvers, The Conversation

· Feb 02, 2018 · 09:30 pm

There’s a surprising link between fireworks, iodine levels and low IQ

A chemical found in products as diverse as fireworks and food packaging, perchlorate can interfere with thyroid function as well as foetal brain development.

Barbara Demeneix, The Conversation

· Dec 30, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Karnataka government to give all citizens health cover from November 1

The insurance scheme will cost the state Rs 869 crore and be linked with Aadhaar.

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· Aug 29, 2017 · 10:19 am

Bengaluru-based firm introduces affordable blood tests that detect early-stage cancer

The technique developed by Strand Life Sciences is minimally-invasive and can find evidence of tumours in places surgeons cannot access.

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· Apr 12, 2017 · 03:40 pm