Patients suffer as doctors go on strike in Jaipur

Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 00:50

Medical and health services in state-run government hospitals were badly affected on Wednesday as doctors went on an indefinite strike demanding rotation in duty.

UP: Doctors leave procedure mid-way, agitated villagers beat CMO

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 15:25

Two doctors at a sterilisation camp here allegedly left without completing the procedure, following which irate villagers blocked road and beat up the CMO who had come to placate them, police said on Wednesday.

Himachal doctors request CM to review health care policies

Last Updated: Sunday, November 24, 2013, 19:47

The Himachal Medical Officers Association (HMOA) today said the health services in the state have been deteriorating due to some wrong policies and urged Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh to look into the matter.

New law could jail doctors for negligence: UK

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 00:49

The British government is proposing a new law that could jail doctors and nurses for up to five years, if they are convicted of "willful negligence."

5,600 autopsies without a break, Indore doctors set an example

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 20:35

A team of doctors in Indore has set an example by conducting autopsies everyday without taking leave even on holidays, since November 2006.

Doctors complicit in torture at CIA, military prisons: Study

Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2013, 14:25

Doctors and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, an independent report said today.

Kidney scam: Court holds five docs, ex-cop guilty

Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 21:01

A court here on Saturday held five doctors and a former Haryana Police Inspector guilty in the infamous kidney scam unearthed by the Punjab Police in 2002.

Delhi doctors divided over SC compensation ruling in negligence case

Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 17:57

Delhi doctors were on Thursday divided over the Supreme Court verdict granting a whopping Rs 11.41 crore compensation for medical negligence.

British court backs Indian doctors` exam bias fight

Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 18:05

A group representing Indian-origin doctors in Britain has won a minor victory in its legal battle against suspected racial bias within the country`s medical examination system.

Four doctors and 4 nurses suspended in Agartala

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 21:07

Four doctors and four nurses of Agartala government medical college were suspended a month after a patient`s lower abdomen was cut open and urinary tract operated instead of a mouth biopsy, official sources said Wednesday.

Gender-based abortions in some circumstances are lawful in UK

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 01:02

Doctors in Britain have been informed that they can carry out sex-selective abortions in certain circumstances and it would be lawful, the country`s top prosecutor on Monday said, justifying a decision not to prosecute two Indian-origin doctors accused of arranging abortions.