Islamabad, April 29 (IANS) A panel of experts will decide whether Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who suffered grievous injuries in an attack in Kot Lakhpat jail, should be sent abroad or a foreign neurosurgeon called here, a media report said Monday. The four-member panel of experts has been [...]

Shimla: Neglect of the old bus stand, which presently serves as the city bus stand, reflects the apathy of the authorities that has left much of the public utility space littered with trash and garbage raising questions about maintenance of hygienic conditions before diseases could break out in the summer. At [...]

New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Thirty-three new drugs were granted approval by the health ministry without clinical trials on Indian patients between January 2008 and October 2010, a parliamentary panel has found. It a report tabled in parliament last week, the panel headed by parliament member Brajesh Pathak said: “This [...]

Islamabad, April 28 (IANS) As many as 52 new AIDS patients have been registered in the first four months of this year at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) here in the capital. The News International said the total number of patients registered at the PIMS Centre for Treatment [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, April 28 (IANS) The Kerala Police have collected around Rs.1.5 million as fine after stepping up vigil in the past five months against those smoking in public places, according to information available on the website of the state police. “A total 9,885 people were fined across 20 police districts, [...]

Amritsar, April 28 (IANS) The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has summoned officials of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) over the issue of helping Sarabjit Singh, Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan. The Commission has also directed the central government to send a [...]

Guruvayoor (Kerala), April 28 (IANS) Its decades long ethnic conflict over, Sri Lanka is steadily emerging as a major competitor to Kerala’s ayurvedic system of medicine, a leading industry expert says. But officials are quick to point out that as long as Kerala sticks to its pristine form of ayurveda [...]

New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Akash Saxena, 55, was diagnosed with liver cancer and a transplant would have cost him Rs 17-18 lakh (Rs 1.7-1.8 million). It was at this point that he got to know about Interventional Radiology (IR) which saved his life. “I took two sittings of chemoembolization [...]

Mumbai, April 28 (IANS) The clock is ticking away for an Indian-origin professor at Stanford who is suffering from leukaemia and is desperately waiting for a bone marrow donor match. Nalini Ambady, hailing from Kerala, practically has only around 7-8 weeks by which to find a matching donor, according to [...]

Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) To make medical councils in India “unbiased” and “corruption-free”, NGO People For Better Treatment (PBT) will file a public interest litigation (PIL) to get non-doctors into the council. “Every medical board in the US has 50 percent non-doctors as members. In India, it is all a [...]