Jamia Hamdard set with medical university
16 July 2012 2:22 AM GMTThe Jamia Hamdard University in the capital has obtained permission from the Medical Council of India [MCI] to set up a Medical College under Hamdard...
Delhi to get a new medical college
3 July 2012 1:51 AM GMTDelhi will get another medical college with the Medical Council of India according permission to Hamdard Institute Of Medical Sciences [HIMSR], Jamia...
5,000 cheers for aspiring medical students
2 July 2012 2:42 AM GMTFor the second consecutive year, the union health ministry has offered a bonanza to those seeking a seat in the medical colleges. The government is...
Govt order for hospital to serve poor stayed
19 Jun 2012 2:25 AM GMTThe Delhi High Court has stayed an order of the central government incorporating a fresh condition in 42-year-old lease deed of St Stephens Hospital...
Octogenarian gets first ‘no-cut’ valve implant
16 Jun 2012 12:42 AM GMTIn a development that comes as a good news for elderly patients with heart ailments, doctors at a Gurgaon hospital have performed India’s first ‘no...
10-year-old gets blood vessel from stem cells
15 Jun 2012 2:49 AM GMTFor the first time, scientists led by an Indian-origin researcher have successfully replaced a major blood vessel in a 10-year-old girl with a vein...
Stem cells: medical magic
14 Jun 2012 3:05 AM GMTSimran Kaur, 42, was suffering from cerebellar ataxias, a rare genetic disorder, which left her wheelchair bound, incontinent, with slurred speech and...
Rooting out cervical cancer
13 Jun 2012 7:57 AM GMTA scientific discovery about where and how cervical cancer takes root in the body has resolved a decades-long mystery and could lead to even better...
Scientists grow bone from fat
11 Jun 2012 1:47 AM GMTScientists have grown a human bone from stem cells taken from fat, paving the way for repair or replacement of broken bones with those grown from a...
Merchants of death are angry!
9 Jun 2012 7:45 AM GMTDoctors are angry! Why? Aamir Khan has targeted them in two of his first four shows! And why not? After all, the show is called Satyamev Jayate! And...
Fatally flawed prescriptions
21 May 2012 6:48 AM GMTDoctors are so looked upon as gods because they belong to a healing profession that some of the serious flaws in their profession, knowledge and...
Wrong medicine kills youth
14 May 2012 5:33 AM GMTA 25-year-old man died due to the supposedly reckless behaviour of a compounder of Ambay Hospital in Ghaziabad. On Sunday evening, the victim,...
