Some doctors remain lazy, says health minister

Thiruvananthapuram: After Health Minister K K Shailaja's 'expensive' pair of spectacles triggered a controversy, Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan too has sparked a debate for claiming Rs 49,900 reimbursement for his specs. According to information obtained through ...

M S Ravi, Chief Editor of leading Malayalam daily, Kerala Kaumadi, passed away at a private hospital here today.Ravi collapsed at home this noon and was rushed to the hospital.He was 68.Son of Kerala Kaumadi's founder editor K Sukumaran, Ravi" is survived by ...

A nine-year-old leukaemia patient who was suspected to have contracted HIV during blood transfusion died at a Medical College Hospital (MCH) in Vandanam, in Alappuzha district, on Wednesday. The deceased, a girl from Haripad in Alappuzha, was undergoing ...

Thiruvananthapuram: In a first of its kind in the country, Kerala became the first state to roll out guidelines for declaration of brain death. It has been framed as per the High Court direction in the wake of existing scepticism about certifying a person as ...

A Kerala college professor has given sanskari sermons which have left everyone baffled and anguished in the state. According to an India.com report, Dr Rajith Kumar, who is a teacher of a college in Kalady recently said that, " Women who wear jeans or act ...

Authorities at the Government Medical College Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram suspended an attendant on Thursday, a few hours after a video clip that showed him physically harming a patient caught their attention. The video, shot on a cell phone by an ...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Assembly was informed on Wednesday that five lakh people suffer from ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in the state and a detailed survey would be done to identify and treat these patients. Even though the cause of ankylosing spondylitis ...

As part of various steps to bring the transgender community into the mainstream of society, Kerala government plans to introduce a third gender option in Public Service Commission job application forms.This was stated by the state Health and social justice ...

Attappadi: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday visited the house of tribal youth Madhu who was lynched by a mob in Agali last week. Madhu's family urged the CM to ensure that the accused in the case do not get bail. The CM promised to extend all legal ...