AIIMS Jammu successfully performed reconstructive neurosurgery on a 15-year-old girl suffering from a rare bony tumour affecting her forehead and eye socket, restoring her vision and facial symmetry.
AIIMS-Delhi has begun implementing the Supreme Court's decision to allow passive euthanasia for Harish Rana, who has been in a coma since 2013. A specialised medical team has been formed to oversee the process, which is expected to take two to three weeks.
We may not know Dr Ramani at first, but by the end, we get a clearer sense of his nobility. For a biopic, that's a job done well, notes Mayur Sanap.
'No matter how exhausted you feel, going to bed at your usual time reinforces the body's rhythm.'
'The people who are missing are the people who used to work in the mess.'
The Mumbai police on Tuesday recreated the crime scene with the accused.
George Fernandes undergoes neurosurgery at AIIMS
'A surgery was performed to remove the knife and repair the leaking spinal fluid.'
The 69-year-old Banerjee, who suffered a major injury on her forehead and nose during a fall inside her Kalighat residence in South Kolkata on Thursday evening, also 'slept well', he said.
Sources said her platelet count is low and she is admitted at the neurosurgery ICU of the hospital. "She is in the neurosurgery ICU currently and has to be operated, but then her platelet count is very low. Her condition is being closely monitored. She has a severe head injury," sources told PTI.
The condition of injured Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay is "extremely critical" and far worse than Tuesday night, a medical bulletin said in Chandigarh.
Raj Bala, who was undergoing treatment for spinal injuries sustained in police action during yoga guru Ramdev's fast at Ramlila Maidan on June 4, died on Monday.
Doctors, attending the Gurgaon resident at the Neurosurgery Department ICU of G B Pant Hospital in New Delhi, said, "Her condition is very critical and her vital parameters are being maintained with increased pharmacological support."
US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically injured after she was shot in her head at a close range by an assailant in Arizona, was able to communicate with doctors by following simple commands, physicians attending on her said.
I got to know that every referred case for angiography and angioplasty got a kickback of Rs 5,000 and Rs 15,000 respectively. Seeing this trend, doctors started paying referring doctors Rs 1 lakh in advance and adjusting it as and when patients came in. This menace slowly spread its tentacles all over the medical field, including radiological diagnostics and biochemistry laboratories. For every test ordered, 20 per cent of the bill was given back to the referring doctor. This led to doctors recommending unnecessary tests. The pharmaceutical companies also saw burgeoning business. Acclaimed doctors were given televisions sets, refrigerators, air conditioners and cars depending upon the prescriptions. General practitioners would prescribe unnecessary drugs, and were given returns in cash. A fascinating excerpt from Dr Upendra Kaul's When The Heart Speaks.
The authorities at the PGIMER have ordered a probe into the alleged misbehaviour of the doctor.
Announcing the All-India DM/MCh entrance exmaination 2009 for CSM Medical University UP, Lucknow and UP Medical State Colleges.
Exercise is the best way to get more oxygen to the brain, a study has revealed.
Dr Sanjay Gupta, who withdrew his name from consideration as the surgeon general of the United States on Thursday, revealed that he took the decision to spend more time with his family and to continue practicing neurosurgery."My wife is imminent with our third child. This job that we have collectively takes us away from our children for so many years at once. And I just didn't feel like I should do that now," he explained.
Dr Vini Khurana, a staff specialist neurosurgeon at the Canberra Hospital and an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Australian National University, said heavy usage of mobile phones might turn out to be a greater threat to human health than smoking and even asbestos. He says that using mobiles for more than 10 years could result in more than double the risk of brain cancer.
Spain's soccer federation (RFEF) announced a three-year deal to play the revamped tournament in Saudi Arabia
Life for him has come full circle, the paper said - from dire poverty in India to the life style of rich in America and back to his native village where he has traded his Mercedes for a bicycle.
Tremor is the most common presenting feature of Parkinson's disease, warns Dr Paresh Doshi. This tremor disappears while performing any action like eating, drinking, writing etc.
Doctors working to bring out Formula One legend Michael Schumacher from his induced coma are reportedly hoping to see eye movements from the German as they enter the third week of their 'waking up' process.
Carson is also the first former presidential aspirant to be tapped by Trump in his Cabinet.
In this moment there has to be honest acknowledgement of how so many in our community willingly voted for another four years of Trump, based on the morally flimsiest of reasons, points out Suleman Din.
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'Given the first-time healthcare emergency of this nature and scale, we don't have enough experienced hands to deal with the situation.' 'The models, policies and protocols keep changing everyday depending upon the evolving situation.' 'We are all in trial-and-error mode where we do some right things as well as wrong things.' 'We cannot have an ideal environment to fight this pandemic.'
The threat was 'escalating' as cyber experts warned that another attack was imminent in coming days.
Security researchers with Kaspersky Lab have recorded more than 45,000 attacks in 99 countries, including the UK, Russia, Ukraine, India, China, Italy, and Egypt.
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
'The best way to face cancer is to get it diagnosed, staged and identify the best which line of management.'
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