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
Doctors ask patients to buy medicines from outside at district hospital
District Magistrate D K Singh told reporters that a complainant alleged that doctors at the district hospital were asking people to purchase medicines from the market and not from the medical store at the hospital.
Mar 05, 2017, 11:58 AM IST
Scam in Arvind Kejriwal's 'Mohalla Clinic'? Vigilance Department initiates probe over doctors earning Rs 4 lakh/month
After receiving several complaints against Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government's 'Mohalla Clinic', the Vigilance Department has initiated an investigation to probe into the matter.
Feb 22, 2017, 16:01 PM IST
Infants require five times more nutrition during first three years, say doctors
They said iron is one of the critical elements, not just for production of haemoglobin but also for brain development.
Feb 19, 2017, 21:22 PM IST
Delhi doctors lose license for six months after operating on patients wrong foot
A report says that the doctors failed to exercise reasonable degree of skill, knowledge and care which are expected of an prudent doctor in treatment of patients.
Feb 16, 2017, 10:54 AM IST
Seven-year-old Hyderabad girl fed infected IV by doctors, dies
Her parents are claiming that she was fed with infected IV which had fungus and an insect in the saline bottle.
Feb 08, 2017, 10:18 AM IST
