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Covid Centre dean Dr Dere arrested for running over 60-year-old on Sion Hospital premises

Covid Centre dean Dr Dere arrested for running over 60-year-old on Sion Hospital premises

Updated on May 26, 2024 01:26 IST

Survivors, samaritans recount moments of anxiety, stroke of luck

Bhiwandi resident Mohammed Arshad’s (38) right leg was fractured by the metal frame of the hoarding and he was also injured on his left leg. Presently admitted at the Rajawadi Hospital’s male ward on the ground floor, he said he was lucky to have survived the crash. (Raju Shinde/HT Photo)

Updated on May 15, 2024 04:08 IST

How a Mira Road mother fought to terminate her 29-week pregnancy

While the loss of her much-awaited second child was traumatic, she finds solace in her decision that spared her baby from suffering.

Updated on May 11, 2024 03:41 IST

Shiv Sena elders regroup to support Uddhav Thackeray, “save democracy”

A bunch of 70- and 80-plus former Shiv Sainiks have regrouped to form the Jestha Shiv Sainik Kaksh (Senior Shiv Sena Wing) at Sena Bhavan in Dadar. (Bhushan Koyande/HT Photo)

Updated on May 9, 2024 03:48 IST

Missed vaccination during pandemic leading to sparing mumps cases in Mumbai

Mumbai, India - Nov. 9, 2023: Dr Shilpa Varma, the doctor who treatment to Mumps patient 9 years old Zinath Fatima at Janta Nagar, Mankhurd in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, November 9, 2023. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 4, 2024 04:00 IST

Heat and dust: How leaders deal with tough campaign conditions

Union Minister and BJP candidate Nitin Gadkari faints while addressing a public meeting for the Lok Sabha elections, at Pusad in Yavatmal district on Wednesday. (PTI)

Updated on Apr 28, 2024 01:36 IST

City gynaecologist proposes overhaul of termination of pregnancy act

Mumbai, India. Jan 12, 2024. Gynaecologist Dr Nikhil Datar outside Bombay High Court on Friday. Datar who was among the first to notarise a living will, has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the high court regarding the poor response from the state government on the issue. Jan 12,2024. (Photo by Raju Shinde/HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 28, 2024 01:26 IST

KEM Hospital to launch state’s first public heart transplant programme

Mumbai, India - April 17, 2020: People passby KEM Hospital, Parel in Mumbai, India, on Friday, April 17, 2020. (Photo by Pratik Chorge/Hindustan Times) (Pratik Chorge/HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 25, 2024 03:47 IST

Bombay HC to examine pregnancy termination beyond 24 weeks at private hospitals

As the law in India does not permit abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, unless there is danger to the mother’s life, the woman and husband may move Supreme Court to seek permission to abort the foetus.

Updated on Apr 23, 2024 07:04 IST

11 injured after fire breaks out in Malad building

The fire was confined to a meter cabin on the ground floor at 9.48am. At level zero, the Mumbai fire brigade called it a stop fire call and doused it with the help of only one fire tender by 9.54am. (Satish Bate/ HT)

Updated on Apr 17, 2024 03:15 IST

Tata Memorial organises sports fest for kids with cancer

Tata Memorial organises sports fest for kids with cancer

Updated on Apr 12, 2024 04:23 IST

Tata Memorial Centre elevates its patient navigation training course

Nishu Singh Goel, who heads the programme said apart from starting the masters in patient navigation this year, they are also decentralising the existing diploma courses by offering it in other peripheral hospitals. She said the diploma course was so far held at Tata Memorial Hospital in Parel wherein all the learning and teaching took place in TMH and internship in other hospitals. We will now start the course in our Varanasi, Visakhapatnam and ACTREC-Kharghar centres. (HT)

Updated on Apr 4, 2024 02:30 IST

State allows CPS to restart 10 courses

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Updated on Mar 17, 2024 01:02 IST

Week after state’s rule, Dr Datar presents living will to custodian

Week after state’s rule, Dr Datar presents living will to custodian

Updated on Mar 16, 2024 02:00 IST

JJ becomes first public hospital to offer trans voice surgery

(REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 12, 2024 02:44 IST

Pathologist association tells MMC to take action against ghost pathologists

In a letter dated March 6, MAPPM has asked the council to issue strict guidelines regarding the presence of pathologists in the process of laboratory reports and bring in regulation in the practice of pathology. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Mar 9, 2024 02:56 IST

Show cause notice sent to Bombay Hospital doctor who failed to perform one of three surgeries

Show cause notice sent to Bombay Hospital doctor who failed to perform one of three surgeries

Updated on Mar 8, 2024 03:10 IST

State appoints 417 custodians for living will

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Updated on Mar 8, 2024 02:22 IST

Maharashtra Medical Council to launch an app to combat fake doctors in state

Maharashtra Medical Council to launch an app to combat fake doctors in state

Updated on Mar 7, 2024 02:22 IST

Self-medication likely led to death of Sion resident doc

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Updated on Mar 6, 2024 01:38 IST

Two doctors, victory against cancer: Behind India’s low-cost CAR T-cell therapy

Rahul Purwar and Dr Gaurav Narula. (HT Photos: Anshuman Poyrekar)

Updated on Mar 2, 2024 06:14 IST

Paid for 3 surgeries, Bombay Hosp doctor only performs two

Bombay Hospital HT photo by Hemant Padalkar. 24.01.08

Updated on Feb 28, 2024 02:34 IST

Tata Memorial study identifies toxicity-reducing agent, holds out hope for cancer patients

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Updated on Feb 27, 2024 03:40 IST

SoBo businessman helps KEM restart liver transplants

SoBo businessman helps KEM restart liver transplants

Updated on Feb 20, 2024 02:10 IST

Mumbai AIDS Control Society to track 849 HIV patients who left treatment

Mumbai AIDS Control Society to track 849 HIV patients who left treatment

Updated on Feb 19, 2024 24:42 IST

Family stayed with body of kin for 10 days in Saki Naka hotel: Cops

The family checked into Hotel Grandeur on December 21, 2023. (Satish Bate/HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 19, 2024 24:10 IST

Vikhroli residents identify plot for temp hospital, write to CM and BMC

he 100-bed Krantiveer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Hospital (KMJPH) in Kannamwar Nagar was pulled down five years ago. (HT ARCHIVES)

Updated on Feb 16, 2024 01:14 IST

Tata Memorial felicitates child cancer survivors helping patients

Anamika Soni has been religiously visiting Tata Memorial Hospital twice a week for two hours to teach paediatric cancer patients and survivors different dance forms. (HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 14, 2024 02:24 IST

JJ hospital doctors perform spine reconstruction surgery on 14-year-old boy

The orthopaedic team with Akshay and his family.

Updated on Feb 11, 2024 01:54 IST

Six months after launch, three paediatric oncology patients to get treatment at Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar

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Updated on Feb 6, 2024 01:04 IST

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