Hyderabad police busts kidney transplant racket

Last Updated: Monday, May 7, 2012, 00:06

City police busted a kidney transplant racket by arresting two touts who allegedly connived with a government doctor to sell donors` kidneys to the needy and extracted money from them, police said.

Chavez to return to Venezuela after medical tests

Last Updated: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 12:52

Venezuelan President underwent surgery in Cuba in June to remove a cancerous tumour from his pelvic region.

Nobel laureate Ramakrishnan failed IIT, medical ent tests

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 22:23

Venkataraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 2009 but decades ago he failed to clear entrance tests for both the IITs and a reputed medical college.

‘24 pilots found alocohol-positive in pre-flight tests’

Last Updated: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 19:41

Twenty four pilots have been found alcohol-positive in their pre-flight medical examinations this year till November 30, which on some occasions led to delay in operations, the Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday.

American gets medical tests after Myanmar jailing

Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2009, 12:34

An ailing American, who was spared a seven-year prison sentence in Myanmar, underwent medical testing in Bangkok on Monday, a day after an influential US Senator secured his release from the military-ruled country.