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Cancer is no longer a rare disease. With rising life expectancy, changing lifestyles, pollution, and late detection, the cancer burden continues to grow, especially in countries like India. Hospitals are seeing younger patients, more advanced disease, and longer treatment journeys. And while treatments have improved, the experience of cancer therapy is still physically and emotionally…
Andre Yarham. (Pix via Samantha Fairbairn / SWNS) The UK’s youngest known dementia patient, Andre Yarham, has died aged 24, less than two years after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of the disease. Doctors had told his family that, despite his age, his brain showed degeneration comparable to that of a 70-year-old.According…
A handshake and an embrace on Tuesday marked an end to the Dec 22 assault case at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) involving sacked senior resident Dr Raghav Narula and patient Arjun Panwar. Narula and Panwar, in the office of CM’s principal media adviser Naresh Chauhan, apologised to each other and to the people…
Shimla: A week-long healthcare crisis in Himachal Pradesh has eased after the state govt agreed to review the sacking of a senior resident for assaulting a patient, prompting hundreds of striking doctors to return to their wards.Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu intervened to end the deadlock on Monday, signalling a conciliatory shift by promising a…
Shimla doctor who thrashed patient sacked: Govt finds act ‘unbecoming of a public servant’ SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh govt on Wednesday terminated the services of Dr Raghav Nirula, a senior resident doctor in the department of pulmonary medicine at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), Shimla, for assaulting a patient on Dec 22.The action was taken…
A Mexican navy aircraft carrying medical patients crashed into the waters of Galveston Bay in Texas on Monday afternoon, killing at least five people, including a two-year-old child, US coast guard officials said, according to AP. Four people were rescued alive, while one person remains unaccounted for, a spokesperson for the coast guard’s Houston-Galveston sector…
KULLU: A doctor at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC) was suspended on Monday after he brutally assaulted a patient, who protested at being called ‘tu’ and asked for some politeness. A video of the incident, shot by an attendant, shows a doctor in surgical mask repeatedly punching the patient, Arjun Panwar, 36,…
“He never had any accidents, no spine injury, and never did heavy weight lifting, but he nearly damaged his spine…”. AIIMS trained Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dushyant Chouhan narrated this real-life experience of one of his patients. The patient was only 32 years old, a young professional, who spent hours sitting at his office desk, without…
BENGALURU: A 21-year-old woman has accused a dermatologist of sexually harassing her during a consultation at his private clinic in central Bengaluru.Ashok Nagar police arrested Dr Praveen, 56, who has now been remanded in judicial custody.In her complaint, the woman alleged that the doctor took advantage of her being alone at the clinic Saturday evening….
National Medical Commission (NMC) completes five years on Thursday without having heard a single complaint from a patient, having rejected all of those it has received. This, despite being a body meant to regulate the medical profession in public interest.Hundreds of complaints and appeals filed by patients or their families have been rejected since NMC…
