How Young Doctors Fought For A Child's Life Mid-Air

The child's mom continued to sob and pray.The Vistara staff was standing by offering as much assistance as they were capable of. Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Vistara flight UK 814 had......

'We just saved a child's life!'

'After 11 years of medical education, training in various hospitals, giving various competitive exams and finally, if you're able to save a child's life at 20,000 feet above the ground, in the air,......

AIIMS server down for second day, various agencies probe

Various government agencies are probing an incident of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Delhi's server remaining out of service for the second consecutive day. Amid the cyber security......

COVID-19 may cause long-term lung damage: Study

Scientists have identified persistent damage in the lungs of COVID-19 patients at least three months after they were discharged from hospital, and for some patients even longer. IMAGE: Doctors......

Wealth through health

The healthcare services delivery sector comprising big organised hospitals like Apollo, Wockhardt, Escorts, Lilavati and Hinduja has been on a growth path. As medical tourism gains ground, revenues......

Pharma in 2014: Deals worth billions and fines worth millions

Even as private firms were busy stitching merger and partnership deals, the government also remained active during the year working on a separate policy to promote and strengthen domestic......

Thiagarajan's trail-blazing invention!

Who says Indians cannot come up with revolutionary inventions? Take the case of Arvind Thiagarajan, a young Indian scientist, for example.The head of department of a hospital in Singapore asked......

India to be teleradiology hub!

Imagine a radiologist sitting in Bangalore reporting on the CAT scan that was performed minutes earlier in the ER (emergency room) of a hospital in Philadelphia.Sounds like science fiction? Not any......