

Thursday 5 November '09
The Capital’s urban poor will soon be able to afford healthcare up to Rs 1.5 lakh without paying a paisa. Set up as a registered society...Tuesday 3 November '09
The state government has decided to use the power of Internet to rein in private hospitals that are denying free treatment to patients from Economic Weaker Section of the society.Monday
2 November '09After high-end diagnostics and dialysis machines, the state government is on its way to privatise healthcare for newborns to improve the Capital’s abysmal infant mortality rate.Saturday
31 October '09When the pager went off that Wednesday morning, Dr I K Dhawan — then surgeon in-charge at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences...Saturday
31 October '09For two days Pawan Kumar, a 41-year-old businessman, kept having recurrent dizziness during which he lost control over his limbs and tongue for brief intervals.Wednesday
28 October '09The nation’s premier medical body — the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will soon have an International face — a self-financing, non-profit affiliate which will “draw upon the intellectual and professional strengths of AIIMS for its global mission”.Saturday
24 October '09After falling into a hospital duct, Som Devi (23) had to wait for 24 hours before she was rescued by the staff of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital.Saturday
17 October '09Burns, respiratory problems, ear-splitting noise... Diwali has its dark side too....Friday
9 October '09Featured on www.carlabrunisarkozy.org, in an 8-minute photo essay, are stories of five families coping with the massive difficulties — and experiencing the small joys — of living with HIV in Guntur.Friday
9 October '09Tests conducted on the exhumed bodies of two Shopian women are said to be indicative of 'death by drowning'.Friday
9 October '09Lok Nayak Hospital is getting ready for an ‘intense beautification’ drive, with a new façade, a green zone and the road leading to the hospital free of garbage dumps, toilet complexes, vendors and rickshaw pullers.Thursday
8 October '09The state health department on Wednesday suspended Medical Superintendent of Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital Dr A K Gangotra, who has been booked on charges of swindling government funds to the tune of Rs 1 crore.Thursday
8 October '09Eminent cardiologist Naresh Trehan’s super-specialty healthcare institute Medanta - The Medicity is ready for a Diwali launch and will be open to patients from October 19.Tuesday
6 October '09If all goes as planned, state-run hospitals will soon be working in clockwork precision, German style.Monday
5 October '09With one-fifth of the world’s newborn deaths occurring in India, the so-called economic prosperity is rendered meaningless, says a new report by Save the Children....Saturday
3 October '09Child rights activists may not think much of Rakhi Sawant’s maternal instincts, but Shilpa Budhiraja, mother of the 10-month-old baby Rakhi...Saturday
3 October '09Qamar Khan could literally feel in her bones that all was not well when she left for a wedding party on a winter night.Thursday
1 October '09The Shopian double rape and murder case, caught in a swirl of questions and controversies, may soon see a “conclusive finding,” suggested T D Dogra...Wednesday
30 September '09Investigating charges of corruption against doctors in state-run hospitals, the Anti Corruption Bureau raided houses of four senior doctors, including the Head of the Ophthalmic Department of Deen Dayal Updhyay (DDU) Hospital, Dr M C Agarwal.Saturday
26 September '09A recent study of almost 21,000 heart patients across India established that Indians not only “have a higher rate of serious cardiovascular diseases....Saturday
26 September '09Beating at the rate of 30 beats a minute for three days, Amit Gupta’s heart had almost given up....Saturday
26 September '09Initiating a vigilance inquiry into charges of mismanagement against Padmashree awardee Dr Jagdish Prasad, the Health Ministry on Friday removed the doctor from the post of medical superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital and principal of its medical college.Friday
25 September '09Three days after Dr Jagdish Prasad — a Padmashri awardee occupying the post of Additional Director General in the Health Ministry was booked for duping two disabled persons, the Ministry has remained silent in the matter.Thursday
24 September '09Days after an FIR was lodged for alleged cheating, Safdarjung Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Jagdish Prasad is now being investigated for ‘hiring muscle’ to beat up one of the complainants.Wednesday
23 September '09Safdarjung Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Jagdish Prasad has been booked for defrauding two disabled persons of over Rs 22 lakh.