The alleged incident came to light after Ummat Foundation wrote to the hospital dean and municipal corporator Rais Shaikh that a 38-year-old man was told that his beard had to be shaved before he underwent lower limb surgery. read more

A Delhi-based NGO, Uday Foundation, has been conducting these food drives three-four times in a week outside 11 government-run hospitals in Delhi for the past three years. read more

t will be available free of cost and will cover the out patient department (OPD) for the first phase of the project. read more

With umpteen mobile healthcare management solutions, patient care and everyday activities of medical practitioners can be simplified to a great extent. read more

The United Kingdom’s high court has upheld an order banning an Indian-origin doctor, who had been found responsible for the death of a cancer patient at Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (KDAH), from practicing there. read more

A new app with GPS-guided routing will come in handy for patients and their kin who find it difficult to negotiate the nearly 50 clinical departments and centres spread across the 107.6-acre main campus of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences... read more

Attention now turns towards the three-ODI series starting in Sydney on Saturday. Katich said that Australian batsmen must grab opportunities before the return of banned David Warner and Steve Smith. read more

Healthcare institutions in the city are far behind when it comes to implementing fire safety norms set by the fire department read more

The research was presented at an annual meeting of European association for study of diabetes (EASD) which was recently held at Berlin (Germany) from October 1- 5. read more

Estimates suggest at least 1,000 people are required to donate blood daily to meet Mumbai’s blood requirement and doctors hope the shortage won’t last long. read more

Niels Hoegel, has already spent nearly a decade in prison for other patient deaths, and is accused of intentionally administering medical overdoses to victims so he could bring them back to life at the last moment. read more

A study showed that music therapy reduced pain and anxiety of the burn patients while undergoing dressing. read more

The donor Kanhaiya had met with an accident on September 29 and was declared brain dead by the doctors. read more

A number of companies are attempting to create new drugs and products tailored to Asian bodies and lifestyles. Here’s why. read more

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to launch a campaign to identify unscrupulous government doctors referring patients to private hospitals or asking them to buy medicines from open market, health minister Sidharth Nath Singh said. read more