Friday 3 April '09
Private hospitals will soon find it hard to get away with overcharging or compromising the quality of medical care.Wednesday 25 March '09
The Global TB Control Report released here on World TB Day revealed that one out of four TB deaths in the world are HIV-related, twice as many as previously recognised.....Tuesday
24 March '09Researchers are looking to provide a permanent cure for Tuberculosis — a deadly disease that currently kills over two million people worldwide — for less than $2....Saturday
14 March '09Diagnosed with renal failure, six-year-old Louis was considered too weak to undergo stem cell treatment.Wednesday
11 March '09He is a graduate of Science from Agra University. Enough, to get him a job of dignity, Banwari Lal had thought when he came to Delhi three years ago.Wednesday
11 March '09Eight months after Dr P Venugopal retired from AIIMS, Dr Ramesh Chandra Deka, Head of the ENT Department, was appointed new director of the premier institute on Tuesday.Tuesday
10 March '09Dr Deka has been the dean of examination of AIIMS and was finalised at a meeting of the high-powered institute body after a special committee set up to select a new director for AIIMS submitted a list of candidates for the post.Monday
9 March '09Seven months since its iauguration, the super-speciality hospital in Janakpuri has run into rough weather. The only super-speciality hospital in West Delhi...Saturday
7 March '09Long before anyone knew about Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, and its subsequent syndrome, AIDS, Professor Francoise Barre-Sinoussi was intrigued by an unknown disease that did not respond to treatment.Friday
6 March '09The Union Health Ministry has on Thursday initiated action against Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Dr A K Bisoi after they received a complaint accusing Dr Bisoi of inappropriately placing a sweeper as part of the cardiothoracic surgical team...Monday
2 March '09If you spend most of your working hours staring at a computer screen, read on.Tuesday
24 February '09Picking holes in the government’s ambitious Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme, a report prepared by the Forum for Crèche and Childcare Services (FORCES) maintains that less than half of Delhi’s children were getting childcare facilities and nutritional supplements promised under the scheme.Tuesday
17 February '09Citing the “nature of injuries” as the cause of death of the 10-month-old baby boy, authorities at the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital did a complete u-turn on Monday, saying the doctors’ absence had nothing to do with the child’s death.Monday
16 February '09Recovering from financial loss or a beloved’s death can cripple a person more severely than a physical disability like amputation or paralysis, says a study conducted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).Monday
16 February '09A 10-month-old baby boy died at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital early on Sunday morning after the doctor on night duty allegedly failed to turn up and the authorities had arranged for no replacement.Tuesday
10 February '09Earlier this week the Centre for Science and Environment alleged that manufactured edible oil “is unfit for consumption”.Sunday
8 February '09Restaurant owner Aman Gandhi, 32, commits suicide by hanging himself. In his suicide note, Gandhi puts it to the enormous losses he suffered in business of late.Saturday
7 February '09Stem-cell research in the city received a setback recently when the All India Institute of Medical Sciences was forced to abort two ongoing trials because the patient pool did not respond to the treatment.Thursday
5 February '09In an unprecedented medical achievement, a tumour weighing nearly 2 kg was removed from the parotid gland (near the ear) of a 67-year-old woman at All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Wednesday.Monday
2 February '09There are approximately 2 lakh patients suffering from renal failure in Delhi who require dialysis every month, according to official figures.Saturday
17 January '09The possibility of Professor R C Deka being appointed the next Director of the All India institute of Medical Sciences is being discussed again.Tuesday
13 January '09It has been three years since Aruna Asaf Ali Hospital in North Delhi acquired a bedpan washer, spending Rs 5 lakh.Sunday
11 January '09Surgical instruments have gone missing from Delhi government’s biggest hospital in West Delhi.Thursday
8 January '09Three months after Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) deputy director-general Jayant K Bhuyan died following a triple bypass surgery, his family has made a very serious allegation, far greater than medical negligence.Tuesday
6 January '09Resident doctors of Dr Baba Sahib Ambedkar Hospital in Rohini went on strike on Monday, after the accounts officer went on leave in November without releasing their salaries.
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