Doctors

Try to stay away from painkillers, warns study

Previous studies suggested that NSAIDs could increase the risk of heart attack, but the timing of the risk, the effect of dose, treatment duration, and the comparative risks between NSAIDs were poorly understood.

May 10, 2017, 17:45 PM IST

Online health information may mitigate trust in doctors

Prompt treatment with anti-inflammatory drugs is needed to help prevent life-threatening complications such as ane

May 04, 2017, 17:20 PM IST

This man from Kota lives with 75 pins inside his body, doctors in a fix

X-ray reports revealed Meena had 40 pins inserted inside his throat, 25 in his right leg and two in both of the arms.

May 04, 2017, 11:29 AM IST

Violence against health workers – AIIMS doctors to get self-defence training from black belt champions

As per a report in TOI, resident doctors doctors will take self-defence classes from black belt champions in martial arts, including taekwondo starting May 15.

May 03, 2017, 09:11 AM IST

'Govt needs to phase out branded drugs to promote generic medications'

Days after PM Modi's announcement, the Medical Council of India (MCI) had directed all the hospitals, doctors and state medical council to prescribe generic medicines to patients.

May 01, 2017, 12:25 PM IST

In a first, scientists use life-like virtual humans to help doctors learn empathy

Researchers created two virtual humans - Robin and Delmy - that are intelligent and conversational, and have the capacity to interact using a wide range of communication behaviours shared in typical face-to-face dialogue.

Apr 30, 2017, 22:17 PM IST

DNA: MCI cracks the whip on errant hospitals, doctors; directs them to prescribe generic drugs

The implication of this directive is huge as India moves to mitigate healthcare costs across the nation.

Apr 23, 2017, 00:44 AM IST

Doctors at Coimbatore hospital perform robotic whipples surgery on 14-year-old girl

Hospital Chairman and Chief Surgeon Dr C Palanivelu told reporters here today that the girl was referred to the hospital after being evaluated outside, with pancreatic tumour called solid pseudo papillary tumor of pancreas, which is common in young women in their early 20's.

Apr 22, 2017, 19:07 PM IST

Docs save 60-year-old's life through new minimally invasive procedure

The man was diagnosed with aortic bio-prosthesis degeneration with severe stenosis -- condition in which calcium gets deposited on the aortic valve in the heart -- was successfully operated using a new minimally invasive procedure called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

Apr 21, 2017, 23:28 PM IST

DNA: Modi govt's next initiative - Soon a law for doctors to prescribe only generic drugs – Watch video

Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary discussed about the Modi government's plan to bring in a legal framework under which doctors will have to prescribe generic medicines, which are cheaper than equivalent branded drugs, to patients.

Apr 20, 2017, 00:09 AM IST

Modi govt aims to break doctor-pharma company nexus, medicines will become cheaper

We will bring in a legal framework by which if a doctor writes a prescription, he has to write in it that it will be enough for patients to buy generic medicine and he need not buy any other medicine, he said.

Apr 18, 2017, 10:05 AM IST

9 out of 10 patients want their doctors to listen to them during initial consultation: Survey

About 38.8 percent of the patients want the doctor to thank them after the consultation.

Apr 14, 2017, 23:48 PM IST

28-year-old Mumbai woman accidentally swallows 5.2-cm-long pin; saved by doctors

While trying to veil, it went inside her mouth and from there, landed directly into her small intestine.

Apr 11, 2017, 13:14 PM IST

Doctors at Chennai's Kauvery Hospital remove huge tumour from infant's spine

A five-day old infant recently underwent a risky surgery at Chennai's Kauvery Hospital to remove a 15 cm by 18 cm tumour located on the back of her spine.

Apr 11, 2017, 10:20 AM IST

Doctors remove rare parasitic twin from 10-month-old girl's back

Doctors say parasitic twins - asymmetric conjoined twins in which one depends on the other's bodily functions -- are extremely rare.

Mar 26, 2017, 13:11 PM IST

World's heaviest woman is all smiles after dropping 140 kilos; at 358kg, she looks 'fit and fine'

Having lost nearly 140 kilos after undergoing bariatric surgery in Mumbai's Saifee Hospital, Eman is on the way to a steady, though slow recovery.

Mar 25, 2017, 13:46 PM IST

After Bombay HC's rap, resident doctors in Maharashtra call off strike, resume work

The BrihanMumbai Mumbai Corp told the Bombay High Court that in the past five days of doctors' agitation, 135 patients lost their lives in Mumbai's government hospitals.

Mar 25, 2017, 09:04 AM IST

Too much iron in body may damage liver, say doctors

Doctors said that excess build-up of iron in the body, Hemochromatosis, can cuase liver damage.

Mar 25, 2017, 00:17 AM IST

AIIMS doctors conduct rare joint-replacement surgery on man, 20-year-old walks after a decade

Touted to be the second such case in the world, this rare quadruple joint replacement surgery surgery enabled the man walked after more than a decade.

Mar 14, 2017, 18:45 PM IST

US doctors'' groups oppose Obamacare repeal

The American Medical Association, which bills itself as the largest organisation of doctors in the nation, in a letter on Wednesday, detailed its critique of the bill, known as the American Health Care Act that which would repeal Obamacare signed in 2010, CNN reported.

Mar 09, 2017, 17:11 PM IST