Ramnath, who now lives in the US, was convicted of the patient's murder and handed the suspended jail sentence at the Birmingham Brown Court for going against the wishes of three colleagues and failing to speak to a consultant anaesthetist at the hospital before injecting the drug into Leighton.
In a first of its kind case that has come up in the Delhi-based principal bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal, a serving army doctor has approached the court for admission to the post graduate degree course being conducted in the army's Research and Referral hospital in New Delhi. The doctor, after having cleared the entrance, was turned out on the pretext of lack of resources and teaching faculty
The Oxford Crown Court found Praminder Mankoo guilty of groping the private parts of women patients under the guise of treatment to relieve stress, after a two-week trial. The verdict is likely to be announced next month.During the trial, the court heard several victims recall their ordeal with the 47-year-old hair consultant at his Thame clinic in Oxfordshire.
Parents of victims who lost their lives to deadly encephalitis in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district have accused the officials of a government hospital of demanding a bribe to hand over the dead bodies of their children. Parvatia Devi and her husband Maheshwar Paswan were shocked when officials of the Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital demanded money for the release of the bodies.
Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences claimed on Wednesday that they carried out the world's first robotic surgery to remove a tumour in the bladder which was leading to hypertension in the patient.
The State Board of Medical Examiners found that Dr Santusht Perera removed a portion of right lung of 60-year-old Richard Flagg when he should have been operated on a tumour in the left lung, then lied and altered documents in an attempt to cover up the mistake.
British authorities have barred a middle-aged Indian doctor from practicing for a year and threatened to revoke his license permanently after he was accused by a woman patient of behaving indecently during a breast examination. At the general Medical Council hearing in Manchester, it was ruled that Pattar's fitness to practice had been 'impaired' and that a 12-month suspension was imposed on his registration with the GMC.
All the four Indian doctors in a hospital in Nigerian capital Abuja, who have been forced to stay on in the Ebola-hit country against their wishes, were given back their passports following intervention by the Indian high commission in that country.
All medical services in every state-run hospital across Uttar Pradesh will remain suspended for two hours with effect from Monday, as a mark of protest against the failure of investigating agencies to crack the sensational murder case of Lucknow chief medical officer Dr B P Singh.
Former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddha's plea for directions to the Delhi Police to file complete charge sheet in the air hostess Geetika Sharma suicide case has been dismissed by a Delhi court.
The star of the American television sitcom Aliens in America will be seen on the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning medical drama Nip/Tuck in a recurring part.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday received a fresh set of documents from the defence ministry related to the Rs 3600 crore AgustaWestland helicopter deal as it prepares to start from next week questioning of suspects over alleged kickbacks paid in India. CBI sources said the defence ministry has provided them with a new set of documents related to the deal but declined to give details.
Dr Dipak Desai,a prominent Indian-origin doctor who is a majority owner of a clinic chain linked to a hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas has been restrained from practising by a court.
The Supreme Court verdict dismissing the plea for mercy killing of 60-year-old Aruna Shanbaug was on Monday welcomed by the medical fraternity, including nurses looking after the comatose sexual assault victim, which cautioned that any move to legalise active euthanasia was fraught with dangers. "India is not mature enough to handle euthanasia," said senior Bangaluru-based cardiologist Devi Prasad Shetty, while expressing his joy over the verdict on Shanbaug.
Authorities have 'flagged' the passport of Dipak Desai, the Indian-American owner of a Las Vegas clinic chain that is at the centre of one of the biggest malpractices scandal in the United States, with the police saying the probe 'is not far enough' to charge the doctor. Although flagging of Desai's passport will not prevent him from leaving the country, it would notify law enforcement officials and allow them to interview Desai before he leaves the US.
Four days after the busting of the kidney racket in Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, T Rajkumar Rao, the alleged kingpin, and three others were on Tuesday arrested, even as police said 10 doctors are likely to be questioned in connection with the case.
Heated exchanges between the counsel for the Central Bureau of Investigation and those appearing for parents of murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar took place in a special court in Ghaziabad on Friday after the agency protested their plea for copies of documents submitted by it along with the closure report.
As the circumstances surrounding the death of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose remains shrouded in mystery, official documents declassified by the government say the revolutionary leader was a victim of an aircrash on August 18, 1945.
The Singapore doctor who carried out the postmortem of the 23-year-old gangrape victim will be included as a witness by the Delhi Police in the 50-page chargesheet in the case to be filed before a fast-track court on Thursday.
Maintaining that this was not the time to have a debate whether the decision to shift her was political or medical, Dr B D Athani, superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital, said, "The pure intention was to save her. The whole nation was praying for her and everyone was hoping for the best. We could not have given hope. We wanted to save her."
An Indian lady doctor, accused of poisoning to death her husband in Saudi Arabia after he reportedly converted to Islam, has been absolved of the charges after 10 months of detention which she described as a "nightmare".
The 23-year-old girl, who was raped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus here last Sunday night, is "responding to treatment" and is "psychologically composed and optimistic about her future", doctors treating her at Safdarjung hospital said on Saturday.
Dilip Joseph's employers, Colorado-based Morning Star Development, insisted that it did not pay any ransom to the Taliban for the release of the doctor, who worked with it for the last three years and has been a frequent traveller to Afghanistan.
Giving an instant reaction to passage of the Bill, which fixes the retirement age of the director of AIIMS at 65 years, the Resident Doctors Association said the OPD services would not operate from Thursday.
A three-member Bench of the court ruled that the order by the Department of Health regarding employment of doctors on the High-Skilled Migrant Programme was not lawful, after a 16-month-long legal battle led by the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin.
Around 1200 doctors of Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital continued to be on strike for the second day on Wednesday after their talks with the authorities were inconclusive.
This 62-year-old medical practitioner believes that a good doctor should depend more on diagnosis to find out the disease instead of relying on sophisticated medical devices.
Drs Daya and Chander Gupta donated $1 million to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Manitoba earlier this month. The CNIB renamed the CNIB Winnipeg Building as The Drs Daya and Chander Gupta Center and organised a dinner in their honour on July 3.
An Indian-origin doctor facing manslaughter charges in Australia after he allegedly drugged his two female escorts, leading to their deaths, was denied bail on Tuesday.
A local court on Saturday issued an arrest warrant against former Jammu and Kashmir junior health minister Shabir Ahmad Khan allegedly involved in sexual assault on a doctor in Srinagar.
An influential group of Indian American doctors has campaigned at the Capitol Hill for Dr Vivek Murthy, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama for the post of surgeon general of the United States.
A team of doctors, who analysed the causes of death of 17 pilgrims near the cave shrine, have stated in their report that though several pilgrims were unfit for the high altitude travel had been able to secure medical certificates from Registered Medical Practitioners. Mukhtar Ahmad reports.
The health department had decided to keep the new immigration laws in abeyance for the first round of recruitment this year in the NHS.
About 16,000 Indian doctors have been rendered unemployed and face expulsion after the British government effected changes in the immigration and employment rules.
'Our proactive detection rate for hate speech in India is close to 97 per cent -- which means that of the hate speech content we remove, we detect 97 per cent of it proactively, even before anyone reports it.'
An Indian-origin doctor at the Yale School of Medicine was shot dead by a Chinese colleague, who also tried to kill victim's pregnant wife, the police said.
A former British child model is among two youths found guilty of murdering an Indian-origin doctor and taking away his money to pay for a prostitute, with both convicts facing life imprisonment.
The resident doctors will hold a meeting on Friday evening to decide the future course of action.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the death of medical personnel in the Kabul blast defined the risks Indian medical teams have to face while serving in Afghanistan.
