After nearly a decade of a sustained campaign to set up trauma centres in India, Dr Navin Shah, a Maryland urologist and former president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian......
The idea is to provide prompt and proper emergency care to all, especially for our middle and lower classes for whom availing emergency care is difficult and sometimes just impossible, says Dr......
More than 400 patients were evacuated to safety after a major fire broke out in PGIMER-Chandigarh's Nehru Hospital block late last night, officials said on Tuesday. IMAGE: A policeman inspects the......
For more than a decade, Indian bureaucracy has continued to inhibit efforts by Indian American physicians to help the ailing health care there. This was the message conveyed by Dr Navin Shah,......
Dr Navin Shah, erstwhile president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, has set up an Indo-US Physicians Exchange Programme that envisages voluntary mutual exchanges between......
A new controversy is brewing in Delhi after the state government shortlisted five bidders for providing response services for medical, police and fire emergencies. One of the shortlisted bidders,......
Private hospitals will resolve their dispute with state-owned insurance firms and restore cashless treatment under Mediclaim policies within 10 days, Naresh Trehan, heart surgeon and member of a......
An increasingly large number of non-resident Indian doctors is returning home to south India, giving a third leg to the reverse brain drain phenomenon that mostly involved software engineers and......
In August 1883, the quiet American city of Rochester came tumbling down under a tornado. As 24 people breathed their last, 40 others were left gasping for breath and medical care. The disaster......
To many, it may seem a bit odd to apply the concept of franchising to healthcare, but to some, it makes eminent sense. At the vanguard of this new frontier is the Apollo Hospitals Group which is......
New Zealand rugby union great Jonah Lomu died, aged 40, in Wellington on Wednesday. Lomu, who scored 37 tries in 63 matches for New Zealand between 1994 and 2002, had been diagnosed with a rare......