Misdiagnosis leaves 13-year-old athlete battling for life

After doctors at Jaslok Hospital told a 43-year-old man that his hanging tumour had gone under the knife and with success he returned to Kolkata looking forward to a peaceful convalescence. Imagine Deo Prakash Pandey's shock when doctors back home ...

The Jaslok Hospital CEO doesnt want his doctors going about their work looking glamorous, and has introduced a sober dress code for around 300 junior doctors that bans dark lipsticks, flashy clothes, jeans, jewellery, and even funky...

Medical experts feel the height restriction will have an adverse effect on medical tourism. The amendment to the Fire Safety Act by the state government has forced more than 15 super-speciality hospitals, including the state-run Sir JJ Group of ...

A month ago, dna reported a case of a 27-year-old Bandra resident who was admitted to Lilavati Hospital with acute respiratory distress and multi-organ failure. Around 20 doctors and 150 tests couldn't figure out the problem. After aggressive ...

Gurgaon's Fortis Memorial Research Institute has an in-house cineplex that hospital authorities claim is the first of its kind in the world. Many hospitals have realised that relatives play a major role in a patient's recovery. As a result, ...

Mumbai, Apr 26 (PTI) Noted filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who was in hospital for a month to get treatment for stomach ailment, says he is on path to recovery now."I have been unwell for some time. I had developed stomach-related ailment and was in ...

Suresh Shetty:Vacant posts is the only big concern for the health ministry at present. About 1,200 posts of medical officers should be filled in the next two months. In the past three years, we have tried a number of new things to fill these posts.

Say scheme not sustainable in the long run. The state's ambitious health scheme Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (RGJAY) will enter the second phase in the next couple of months but many private charitable hospitals in the city are unwilling ...

Sixty-year-old Birma Valmiki is sitting on her haunches in the lobby of St George Hospital, Mumbai, waiting for her son's discharge. The public hospital is the third institution Birma and her daughter-in-law, who works as a sweeper, approached to ...