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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
'I consider myself to be a 50 year old with a 16-year-young mind, ready to conquer more continents,' Dr Shuvendu Sen tells Payal Singh Mohanka.
The petition also seeks to restrain the media from publishing the contents or extracts of any alleged private chats, including those on WhatsApp, between her and third parties.
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.
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.
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".
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.
There are several discussions going around in the e-health sector for consolidation with key players being PharmEasy, 1mg, Medlife and Netmeds. According to reports, Reliance Jio is in talks with Netmeds to acquire the latter.
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.
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.
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 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.
He was 51 and was in charge of BCCI's cricket operations till last month for nearly four years.
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.
Ensure you consume water from a clean source and that your home is well-ventilated at all times, suggests Dr Gowri Kulkarni.
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.
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.
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.
In the eye of a storm for his alleged threats to Kota district chief medical and health officer, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Prahalad Gunjal on Friday expressed regret for action even as the medical officer resigned protesting against the "mental harassment" over the issue of transfer of a male nurse.
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.
India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad would like Indian doctors travelling to the US for further studies to sign a bond assuring that they'd return to India after completing their course. Divya Nair weighs in the pros and cons.
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.
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.
India is currently short of 6 lakh doctors and 12 lakh nurses, despite the fact that we have 300 medical colleges, which comprise a total of 34,000 seats. However, 17,000 of these seats fall under constitutional reservations, 6,000 under other quotas, leaving only 11,000 seats for merit students. Every year, there are 11 lakh students vying for these 11,000 seats. Of these students, a negligible percentage opt to practice in rural areas.
Doctors at Cambridge University's Medical Research Council's cognition and brain siences unit made startling doscovery when they managed to communicate with a man who was in a coma for seven years, The Guardian reported. The doctors devised a technique to enable the 29-year old comatose patient to answer simple questions as a yes or no, through the use of a hi-tech scanner, monitoring his brain activity.
In this emerging trend, doctors are joining hands with venture capitalists, drug firms and medical equipment vendors to set up advanced medical care facilities at low costs.
The resident doctors will hold a meeting on Friday evening to decide the future course of action.
A 65-year-old Indian-Amercan doctor, who went to Haiti to attend an IMA World Health's meeting two days before the killer earthquake, had a miraculous escape from beneath tons of rubble where she was buried for 50 hours in a collapsed Port-au-Prince hotel. A slightly-bruised but traumatized Sarla Chand came back home to Teaneck, New Jersey,on Saturday night.
Three Indian-American doctors, who were derogatorily called "the Indians" and treated as "second-class citizens" by the chief executive officer of a medical center in the United States, have won a racial discrimination case in a Texas court.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances